The warm-up activity starts with five questions about the world’s problems with five highlighted adjectives, which students need to match to  correct meanings (e.g. urgent – pressing, never-ending – chronic). Then, they focus on a list of the world’s most pressing issues and decide which two are the most dire and the most pervasive, justifying their opinions and adding more issues to the list. The following task presents a set of six gapped sentences describing global problems which need to be completed with six verbs (e.g. eradicate, plague). Students then put the new language into practice through a discussion in which they relate the world problems to their own countries.