Discussion Questions - Listening

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1. when you think What you read did the headline?

2. in What when your mind you images the hear are word 'freezing'?

3. think you What of do cold freezing weather?

4. What are the good and bad things about the weather in your country?

5. What be would visit like it to Antarctica?

6. What you ever been? have is coldest the

7. North do the Pole? you What about know

8. are What the weather? of very dangers cold

9. stay freezing temperatures? What way the in warm is to best

10. it to breather What like be very icy air? would

11. this reading you like article? Did

12. of do word the think when you you What hear 'cold'?

13. do you What what about you read? think

14. the prefer the cold? Do of heat you

15. to do 60ºC? dropped it you temperatures What minus would

16. about know you What do frostbite?

17. about do know Falls? you Niagara What

18. do What think shoveling you snow? of

19. thing in best What snow? to is the the do

20. to weather like would you ask What a questions forecaster?

Back to the polar vortex lesson.

Polar Vortex - The 20 Questions

STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
  1. What did you think when you read the headline?
  2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'freezing'?
  3. What do you think of freezing cold weather?
  4. What are the good and bad things about the weather in your country?
  5. What would it be like to visit Antarctica?
  6. What is the coldest you have ever been?
  7. What do you know about the North Pole?
  8. What are the dangers of very cold weather?
  9. What is the best way to stay warm in freezing temperatures?
  10. What would it be like to breathe very icy air?

STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
  1. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
  2. What do you think of when you hear the word 'cold'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. Do you prefer the heat or the cold?
  5. What would you do it temperatures dropped to minus 60ºC?
  6. What do you know about frostbite?
  7. What do you know about Niagara Falls?
  8. What do you think of shoveling snow?
  9. What is the best thing to do in the snow?
  10. What questions would you like to ask a weather forecaster?

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