Colours

• What’s your favourite colour?
• What’s the colour you dislike? Why?
• What colours do your friends like most?
• What colour makes vou uncomfortable in your room?
• What colour car would you choose to buy?
• Do you think colour is important when you decide which clothes to buy?
• What is the most popular colour in your country?
• Do you think colours influence you?
• Do you think colour is important when you decide which clothes to buy?
• (Similar to above) What colours do you like to wear?
• Are colours important to you?
• Were colours important to you when you were a child?
• (Similar to above) Were any colours important to you when you were a child?
• Is colour very important to you when you are buying clothes?
• Do you prefer light or dark (or, bright) colours?
• (Similar to above) Do you prefer to wear light or dark (or, bright) coloured clothes?
• Do people in your country like to wear bright colours?
• What are the differences between men and women’s preference in colour?
• What colour would you never use in your home?
• If you were to paint the walls of your room, what colour would you choose?
• Is there any colour you would not want your walls to be? (Why?)

Vocabulary:

Note:In English, when talking about the colours, especially the basic colours (e.g., red, blue, green, white, black, yellow etc.) we just say, “red” not “red colour”. However we do say something is “coloured red” and, “the colour red” etc.

• Lavender, purple, violet, turquoise, grey = gray, beige, scarlet (deep red), olive green, pastel, mauve, tan, pink, crimson (a type of red), auburn
• A “dark colour” e.g., dark blue, dark green; a “light colour”; a “bright colour”.
• Other adjectives that are commonly used to describe colours – “cool”, “warm”, “soft”
• Grey (gray) is sometimes described as a “bland” colour.
• Multi-coloured
• To dye, a dye, e.g., cloth, hair
• A faded colour
• Other uses of colours (besides decoration, art and for clothes) – Colours are often used symbolically, to represent something. The best example is traffic lights where red means “stop”, green means “go” and orange (or yellow) means, “prepare to stop soon”.

Another example is the use of colours to represent different things in graphs. For example, the different sectors of a pie chart are often shown with different colours to make the pie chart easier to read. Yet another example is the use of colours to represent a group, such as people in a club or organization all wearing the same colour. This is similar to people wearing a uniform. Look on the internet for “Colour Revolution” (or, “Color Revolution”) when people who were engaged in a revolution all wore a certain colour to show their solidarity as a group.