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

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

3. do you know about the What Amazon fires?

4. are How fires the dangerous to the world?

5. know you What about do Amazon the rainforest?

6. action taken can be to What the put urgent fires out?

7. you agree with the Do French President?

8. How are serious the fires?

9. are about feelings your the What Amazon rainforests?

10. do for you have advice the president What of Brazil?

11. you like reading Did this article?

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

13. do you what about What think you read?

14. about fires? country's the your did What leader say

15. news Why the on more there fire? about Notre Dame the was

16. 50 years climate What now? be will the like in from

17. whole How Amazon the the fires affect do world?

18. describe three adjectives story? this What best

19. are left? your How of forests country's much

20. Brazil's would to questions you president? like ask What

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the Amazon fires - 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 'rainforest'?
  3. What do you know about the Amazon fires?
  4. How dangerous are the fires to the world?
  5. What do you know about the Amazon rainforest?
  6. What urgent action can be taken to put the fires out?
  7. Do you agree with the French President?
  8. How serious are the fires?
  9. What are your feelings about the Amazon rainforests?
  10. What advice do you have for the president of Brazil?

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 'fire'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What did your country's leader say about the fires?
  5. Why was there more on the news about the Notre Dame fire?
  6. What will the climate be like in 50 years from now?
  7. How do the Amazon fires affect the whole world?
  8. What three adjectives best describe this story?
  9. How much of your country's forests are left?
  10. What questions would you like to ask Brazil's president?

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