Discussion Questions - Listening

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

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

3. What about know do microbes you?

4. What of water tap you do think?

5. Do the drink you think you quality of water ever about the?

6. What about you know do Critical Zone Earth's?

7. What the that life conditions sustain are?

8. Do water you enough drink?

9. How pollution quality affecting water might drinking of the be?

10. How to drinks other compare does water?

11. Did article reading you like this?

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

13. What think you what read do you about?

14. What purification do you know about water?

15. What you think of water do bottled?

16. What do lives you about ground know 200 what metres below?

17. What pressing Earth's are problems most?

18. In can boost efforts conservation what ways we?

19. How change climate address we can?

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

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Water Purification - 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 'water'?
  3. What do you know about microbes?
  4. What do you think of tap water?
  5. Do you ever think about the quality of the water you drink?
  6. What do you know about Earth's Critical Zone?
  7. What are the conditions that sustain life?
  8. Do you drink enough water?
  9. How might pollution be affecting the quality of drinking water?
  10. How does water compare to other drinks?

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 'microbe'?
  3. What do you think about what you read?
  4. What do you know about water purification?
  5. What do you think of bottled water?
  6. What do you know about what lives 200 metres below ground?
  7. What are Earth's most pressing problems?
  8. In what ways can we boost conservation efforts?
  9. How can we address climate change?
  10. What questions would you like to ask the researchers?

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