Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? What would you do to solve the world’s problems? Complete the table. Talk about what you wrote with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you found out. Problem Your solution Why? Disease
Poverty
Terrorism
Climate change
Jobs
4. THE SUMMIT. Students A strongly believe the G20 Summit will do a lot to help us all; Students B strongly believe the G20 Summit will change very little and is a waste of money. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. G20 MEMBERS. Here are the G20 members. With your partner(s), put them into five different groups. Change partners and talk about your groups and why you chose them. Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
South Korea
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
European Union
6. CRISIS. Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘crisis’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
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7. SYNONYM MATCH. Match the following synonyms from the article. 1) taken place
2) tackle
3) walks of life
4) concerned
5) voicing
6) enthusiastic
7) coalition
8) collapse
9) solve
10) boost
a) breakdown
b) worried
c) alliance
d) deal with
e) excited
f) classes
g) answer
h) happened
i) stimulate
j) expressing
