Discussion Questions - Listening

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

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

3. the do sun? you What know about

4. is the important? Why so sun

5. What fusion? do know you nuclear about

6. think What 70,000,000 you degrees of C? do temperatures of

7. new do you of record? this think What

8. Why clean important? energy so is

9. you clean will we energy? have think Do ever

10. cost you of project? think do of this the What

11. reading this Did article? you like

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

13. you what you about What do read? think

14. know to What the do want you about sun?

15. the are energies have today? What we clean best

16. fossil of fuels? do you What think

17. Do bills? worry your about you fuel

18. lives? change How our might nuclear fusion

19. best adjectives What three story? this describe

20. questions you What like would ask researchers? to the

Back to the artificial sun lesson.

Artificial Sun - 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 'artificial'?
  3. What do you know about the sun?
  4. Why is the sun so important?
  5. What do you know about nuclear fusion?
  6. What do you think of temperatures of 70,000,000ºC?
  7. What do you think of this new record?
  8. Why is clean energy so important?
  9. Do you think we will ever have clean energy?
  10. What do you think of the cost of this project?

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 'sun'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What do you want to know about the sun?
  5. What are the best clean energies we have today?
  6. What do you think of fossil fuels?
  7. Do you worry about your fuel bills?
  8. How might nuclear fusion change our lives?
  9. What three adjectives best describe this story?
  10. What questions would you like to ask the researchers?

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