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HURRICANES DISCUSSION
1. What did you think when you read the headline?
2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'hurricane'?
3. What do you think of hurricanes?
4. How can people prepare for a hurricane?
5. What do you think it's like to experience a massive hurricane?
6. How can people recover from the devastation of a hurricane?
7. Would you evacuate if you knew a hurricane was coming?
8. Should there be a world hurricane recovery fund?
9. What are the differences between hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones?
10. How do hurricanes form?
11. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
12. What do you think of when you hear the word 'islands'?
13. What do you think about what you read?
14. What do you know about the Caribbean?
15. Why don't governments prepare better for hurricanes?
16. What would 300kph winds do to a town?
17. What do meteorologists do every day?
18. What part does global warming playing play with hurricanes?
19. What happens during a storm surge?
20. What questions would you like to ask a meteorologist?
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
HURRICANES DISCUSSION
1. What did you think when you read the headline?
2. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'hurricane'?
3. What do you think of hurricanes?
4. How can people prepare for a hurricane?
5. What do you think it's like to experience a massive hurricane?
6. How can people recover from the devastation of a hurricane?
7. Would you evacuate if you knew a hurricane was coming?
8. Should there be a world hurricane recovery fund?
9. What are the differences between hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones?
10. How do hurricanes form?
11. Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
12. What do you think of when you hear the word 'islands'?
13. What do you think about what you read?
14. What do you know about the Caribbean?
15. Why don't governments prepare better for hurricanes?
16. What would 300kph winds do to a town?
17. What do meteorologists do every day?
18. What part does global warming playing play with hurricanes?
19. What happens during a storm surge?
20. What questions would you like to ask a meteorologist?
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