# Would you rather questions for kids: 30 fun ones for English class > Kind, funny would you rather questions for kids, sorted by theme, with sentence frames from Pre-A1 to B1, ways to run it and a free picture tool for class. Source: https://olyclass.com/blog/would-you-rather-questions-for-kids/ · Published 2026-11-04 Ask "Would you rather eat pizza every day or ice cream every day?" and thirty hands go up. **Would you rather questions for kids** are one of the easiest ways to get a whole English class talking, because every student already has an answer. Below are 30 kind, funny would you rather questions sorted by theme, sentence frames from Pre-A1 to B1, ways to run it, and a free tool that puts the questions on your class screen with a picture for each choice: [Would you rather on Oly](https://olyclass.com/classroom-tools/would-you-rather/). ## Why would you rather works for speaking - **Everyone has an opinion.** There is no right answer, so shy and weaker students join in as easily as the strongest. - **The risk is low.** Choosing a side takes one second and no English. The English comes after, when students say why, and by then they care. - **It repeats one useful pattern.** "I would rather… because…" is real English students will use outside class. - **It is a natural warm-up.** Two or three questions switch heads into English in five minutes. It is one of our [20 ESL warm-up games with no prep](https://olyclass.com/blog/esl-warm-up-games/). The simplest version is **this or that questions**: just two words ("cats or dogs?", "summer or winter?"). Start there with very young learners and move to full questions as they grow. ## Sentence frames by level Write the frame on the board first: students who can see it speak more. - **Pre-A1:** point or say the word ("Pizza!"), then "I like pizza." / "Me too!" - **A1:** "I would rather fly." / "I like dogs. I don't like cats." / "Me too." / "Not me!" - **A2:** "I'd rather swim like a fish because I love the sea." / "I don't agree. I'd rather fly because…" - **B1:** "I'd rather live in a castle than in a tent, because…" / "That's a good point, but…" / "If I could talk to animals, I would ask my cat…" A tip for older learners: after "would rather" the verb has no "to". "I'd rather fly", not "I'd rather to fly". ## How to run it in class **Pick a side of the room.** Left wall for the first choice, right wall for the second. Walking there makes it a brain break too. Then ask two or three students on each side why. **Hands up.** In a big class or a tight room, students stay seated and raise a hand for the left or the right choice. **Mini whiteboards.** Students write A or B and hold it up at the same time, so nobody just copies a friend. **Pair talk with a timer.** Give pairs 30 to 60 seconds to share their choice and reason. A countdown on the board, like the free [classroom timer](https://olyclass.com/classroom-tools/timer/), keeps everyone talking until the sound. **Follow-up questions.** The real speaking starts after the choice: "Why?", "What would you do first?", "Who in your family would choose the other one?" **Vote and count.** Count the hands together in English and say which side won. ## 30 would you rather questions for kids ### Food 1. Would you rather eat pizza every day or ice cream every day? 2. Would you rather have breakfast for dinner or dinner for breakfast? 3. Would you rather only eat sweet food or only eat salty food? 4. Would you rather cook dinner for your family or wash all the dishes? 5. Would you rather have a chocolate river or a lemonade lake? ### Animals 6. Would you rather fly like a bird or swim like a fish? 7. Would you rather have a pet panda or a pet penguin? 8. Would you rather be as tall as a giraffe or as small as a mouse? 9. Would you rather have a monkey tail or rabbit ears? 10. Would you rather be a fast cheetah or a slow turtle? ### School 11. Would you rather have English every day or art every day? 12. Would you rather go to school by bike or by boat? 13. Would you rather have a robot teacher or a teacher who is a cat? 14. Would you rather have a longer break or a shorter school day? 15. Would you rather read a book or watch a film? ### Superpowers and magic 16. Would you rather be invisible or be super strong? 17. Would you rather talk to animals or talk to plants? 18. Would you rather have a robot friend or a dragon friend? 19. Would you rather have a magic pencil or a magic hat? 20. Would you rather speak every language or play every instrument? ### Holidays and weather 21. Would you rather have a birthday every month or a holiday every week? 22. Would you rather play in the snow or play on the beach? 23. Would you rather go camping or go to a theme park? 24. Would you rather sleep in a tree house or on a boat? 25. Would you rather visit the moon or the bottom of the sea? ### For teens (A2 to B1) 26. Would you rather travel to the past or to the future? 27. Would you rather have no homework or no tests? 28. Would you rather always be ten minutes early or ten minutes late? 29. Would you rather live without music or without films? 30. Would you rather be the best player on a losing team or the worst player on a winning team? Keep one funny would you rather question for the last minute of the lesson ("a giant pancake or a tiny cake?"). ## Would you rather on the class screen with Oly With a projector, a TV or an interactive whiteboard, the free [Would you rather tool](https://olyclass.com/classroom-tools/would-you-rather/) does the board work for you, with no sign-up. - **Two choices side by side, each with a picture** from Oly's own drawings, so young learners understand before they read. - **More than 60 questions** for primary and lower secondary classes, in a new random order each time. - **Next question** (or the space bar) shows the next one; a counter shows how many you have done. - **Tap a card, or press the left or right arrow**, to mark the side your class chose. - **Full screen** (or F) so the back row can read it. - The questions stay in English in every language of Oly, because they are speaking practice for English class. It sits with the other [free classroom tools](https://olyclass.com/classroom-tools/), such as the timer, a name picker wheel and a team maker. During an Oly game you can open the tools from the stage controls, so a quick would you rather break doesn't mean leaving the game. ## Keep the talking going When the class is warm, carry on with a team speaking game: in [Picture Dice](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/picture-dice/) each team makes a sentence or a story from three pictures, and in [Hot Seat](https://olyclass.com/classroom-games/hot-seat/) one student guesses the word while the team describes it. Want a ready game for your next lesson? Pick a set from the [library](https://olyclass.com/library/) and play it with your class.