Michael, There is a fairly good website that has conversation questions, that you can use to practice with a partner. The website is: http://iteslj.org/questions/ For learning English, I always recommend to my students not to take conversation questions and discussion topics too seriously...the purpose is to practice your English, not to solve all the problems of the world. :) The most important thing is to build one's capacity to discuss a certain topic, not to win a conversation.

hah!you don't have to be prepared with a topic...no way!just be yourself and say what you want to.ummm...BUT YOU dont wanna talk to an unknown person about their love life or any thing personal.wow!yeah:)

i think that if u r talking to a person for the first time the topic of weather is a good one cos it can leads u to talk about ur country or ur city and cos u know many things about it, u can feel so confortable to talk about it...u can talk also about travel, music, movies, sport,reading...anything u sure that the other person like it also...i don't like to discuss with a new friend about politic or religion or something special so just be simple and open mind..that's all, wish u all the best.