Interest in science

C1 Advanced · Speaking Collaborative · Cambridge Ready original exercise

Talk with your partner for about two minutes about the question in the middle, using the ideas around it. Then you have about a minute to reach a decision together.

For the next two minutes or so, I'd like you to talk together. Here are some ways people come across science outside the laboratory and a question about them. Take a moment to read them through.

Interest in science

science museums

nature documentaries

hands-on school experiments

science podcasts

citizen science projects

Now take a minute or so to decide which would have the most lasting effect on young people.

Now, exchange your views on how these things might help people take more of an interest in science.

How might these things help people take more of an interest in science?

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