Download this free A2–B1 English worksheet PDF for English learners and teachers. This lesson explores personal questions, privacy and social etiquette, including conversations about age, salary, marriage, children and information people prefer to keep private.
Students practise reading comprehension, useful vocabulary and speaking skills through a real-world communication and culture topic about polite questions, sensitive subjects, privacy, family conversations, workplace communication and changing social rules. The worksheet is suitable for private English lessons, online classes, classroom teaching, homework and self-study.
The article explains the topic in clear, simple English. Students learn that a question about age may be common in one place but seem impolite somewhere else, and that people have different ideas about what information is private.
The worksheet also looks at questions about money and family. Some people are comfortable discussing salary with friends but not colleagues, while questions about marriage or children can create pressure even when relatives mean well.
Students learn that it is possible to be honest without answering every personal question. Expressions such as I’d rather not say can help people protect their privacy politely, while changing the subject can also be an appropriate response.
This worksheet helps A2–B1 learners discuss social rules in accessible English. Students talk about which personal questions bother them, whether they would tell a close friend their salary, what they share online, how they refuse uncomfortable questions and how ideas about good manners have changed.
The PDF includes an A2–B1 reading text, True / False questions, Synonym Match, a task where students use new vocabulary, discussion questions and a full answer key.
Level: A2–B1
Date: 8 October 2026
Focus: reading, vocabulary, social etiquette, privacy, personal questions, communication and speaking
This free worksheet includes:
- an A2–B1 reading text about personal questions and social etiquette
- discussion of age, salary, marriage, children and privacy
- True / False comprehension questions
- Synonym Match vocabulary practice
- a sentence-writing task using new language
- discussion questions for Student A and Student B
- full answer key
The worksheet practises useful vocabulary such as common, rude, salary, choose, simple, honest, question, important, answer and change. It helps students discuss sensitive questions, polite refusals, workplace conversations, online privacy, family pressure and how social rules vary between people and cultures.
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