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| Olympics 2016 October 2, 2009 |
Today is a big day for the entire sports world and the Olympic Games. The International Olympic
Committee is selecting/has selected the host city of the 2016 Summer Games. Newspapers around the
world are reporting on this event.
Questions for Younger Children
1. What is your favorite game? Why do you like to play this game?
2. If you had a choice between going into outer space or going to the bottom of the ocean where
would you prefer to go? Why? (Adults, consider how this question connects to the news story in my
mind.)
3. Have you ever been in a contest? What kind of a contest was it? Did you have fun? Why or why
not?
4. If your mother was in a contest against another child's mother do you think that the other child
should be allowed to decide the winner? Why or why not? Should you be allowed to decide the
winner? Why or why not?
Discussion Questions for Older Students
1. Vocabulary terms to discuss: Bid; I.O.C.; Decathlete; and, Encompasses.
2. If you could visit any one of the four cities that bid on the Olympics in the final round what city
would you visit? Why!
3. If you were a part of the I.O.C. Voting on the location of the 2016 Olympics what three issues
would you keep in mind as you voted?
4. If somebody from the Nineteenth Century came back alive today and saw how fast information
travels around the globe what do you think that they would say if they had to talk for five minutes?
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