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

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

3. the do What pours'? 'it it never you of think rains idiom, but

4. had rapid Have difficult situations succession? ever in you

5. monkeypox? you about do know What

6. How moment? for is at you COVID-19 the

7. is? of think you much threat How a do monkeypox

8. What doing be should governments about monkeypox?

9. been monkeypox Why spreading? has

10. a What becomes in might happen if society pandemic? monkeypox

11. like this reading Did you article?

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

13. think What what read? you about you do

14. do a What know you about monkeypox pandemic?

15. What do you symptoms monkeypox? the of think of

16. Should reduce to we trying be rodent populations?

17. this What year? monkeypox the time will be next situation like

18. there pandemics be the future? in Will more

19. have you a smallpox Would vaccine?

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

Back to the monkeypox lesson.

Monkeypox - 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 'virus'?
  3. What do you think of the idiom, 'it never rains but it pours'?
  4. Have you ever had difficult situations in rapid succession?
  5. What do you know about monkeypox?
  6. How is COVID-19 for you at the moment?
  7. How much of a threat do you think monkeypox is?
  8. What should governments be doing about monkeypox?
  9. Why has monkeypox been spreading?
  10. What might happen in society if monkeypox becomes a pandemic?

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 'monkeypox'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What do you know about a monkeypox pandemic?
  5. What do you think of the symptoms of monkeypox?
  6. Should we be trying to reduce rodent populations?
  7. What will the monkeypox situation be like this time next year?
  8. Will there be more pandemics in the future?
  9. Would you have a smallpox vaccine?
  10. What questions would you like to ask the scientists?

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