Discussion Questions - Listening

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

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

3. for Have prayed you ever rain?

4. What think of you do rain?

5. is How rain? important

6. How rains day do all it long? you when feel

7. you would if day How feel every it year? rained a for

8. How does heavy you rain make feel?

9. like you it never to where rains? Would somewhere live

10. Earth the you do What know ago? of 200 years about million

11. this Did like reading article? you

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

13. you do read? What about think what you

14. learn we can from studying rocks? What

15. What dinosaurs? about know you the do

16. back like time to the go Would dinosaurs? of to the you

17. earth do about know you the million What years 200 ago?

18. the are in history What of life? your the most events important

19. now? Earth What be like in will years 200 from million

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

Back to the rain lesson.

Rain - 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 'million'?
  3. Have you ever prayed for rain?
  4. What do you think of rain?
  5. How important is rain?
  6. How do you feel when it rains all day long?
  7. How would you feel if it rained every day for a year?
  8. How does heavy rain make you feel?
  9. Would you like to live somewhere where it never rains?
  10. What do you know about the Earth of 200 million years ago?

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 'rain'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What can we learn from studying rocks?
  5. What do you know about the dinosaurs?
  6. Would you like to go back to the time of the dinosaurs?
  7. What do you know about the earth 200 million years ago?
  8. What are the most important events in the history of your life?
  9. What will Earth be like in 200 million years from now?
  10. What questions would you like to ask the geologists?

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