Discussion Questions - Listening

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

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

3. Why hygiene is poverty? there

4. poverty kinds What of other there? are

5. essential? products are What hygiene

6. would products? do without What you hygiene

7. make Should soap governments free? things like available for

8. to make you had ever cutbacks? Have

9. deodorant? What like of of you do things think prices the

10. term the poverty'? 'hygiene do you think What of

11. this reading like you article? Did

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

13. about do read? what What you think you

14. advice poverty? people What in you hygiene do for have

15. of looking worried dirty Have about you ever smelling bad?

16. hygiene your How standards? are high

17. friend tell standards? if poor they hygiene you had Would a

18. help with How governments can hygiene poverty?

19. people smelled? you you avoid if Would

20. ask questions to you head would What of like charity? the the

Back to the hygiene poverty lesson.

Hygiene Poverty - 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 'hygiene'?
  3. Why is there hygiene poverty?
  4. What other kinds of poverty are there?
  5. What hygiene products are essential?
  6. What would you do without hygiene products?
  7. Should governments make things like soap available for free?
  8. Have you ever had to make cutbacks?
  9. What do you think of the prices of things like deodorant?
  10. What do you think of the term 'hygiene poverty'?

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 'poverty'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What advice do you have for people in hygiene poverty?
  5. Have you ever worried about looking dirty or smelling bad?
  6. How high are your hygiene standards?
  7. Would you tell a friend if they had poor hygiene standards?
  8. How can governments help with hygiene poverty?
  9. Would you avoid people if you smelled?
  10. What questions would you like to ask the head of the charity?

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