Watch this video, pay
attention to the vocabulary.
Get ready to write an essay & do a use of English exercise.
Descriptive writing:
Topic
sentence/introductory paragraph
Supporting paragraphs
Closing paragraph
Include these items in the writing & any extra information you have
What is a coronavirus?
Where did it start? Outbreak?
How worried should we
be?
Is there a vaccine?
What are governments doing
to protect people?
What can we do to protect ourselves?
Write 150-175 words. Use the information given in the video. Add some extra you may find. Use your own words as much as possible.
Send it to me before Thursday
Use of English (cloze)
Choose the best option to fill in the gaps
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Nations
around the world are suffering from a (1) ____ outbreak of a new deadly
virus. The coronavirus, which started in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has (2)
____ killed hundreds of people. It has spread to the USA, Japan, Korea,
Thailand, Iran, and The European Union. More than 160.000 people have (3) ____ the
virus and many are seriously ill in hospital. The World Health Organization
(WHO) has met and (4) ____ the outbreak a global health
emergency.
China
urged people not to panic just before the Chinese New Year; when
millions of Chinese would be travelling across the country to spend the holiday
season with their families. Finally, celebrations had to be suspended. (5)
______, the city of Wuhan (6) ____ its public transport systems to help stop
the spread of the virus, without any success.
The new
coronavirus is suspected to have come from illegally (7) ____ animals in a
Wuhan market. The virus is supposed to have (8) ____ and spread from an animal
to a human. Scientists haven't been able to do much as the virus is
extremely (9) ____ and can be passed from person to person through fluids.
Virologists believe that the new coronavirus is in the same (10) ____
SARS, but it's different from SARS. Doctors advice people to look for
pneumonia-like symptoms, such as fever, (11) ____ and difficulty when breathing.
Fu Ning, a 63-year-old woman from Beijing, said: "I feel really afraid because there’s (12)
________ for the virus."
(a)
great (b)
mere (c) major
(a)
yet (b)
still (c) already
(a)
catched (b) caught
(c) catch
(a)
has decoded (b) has
claimed (c)
has decided
(a)
While (b)
Meanwhile
(c) However
(a)
had suspended (b) would
suspend (c)
suspended
(a)
trading (b)
traded (c) trades
(a)
mutated (b)
mutant (c) muted
(a)
contagious (b)
contagios (c)
contagiously
(a)
kin as (b) family
like (c) family
as
(a)
dry croak (b)
dry wheeze (c) dry
cough
(a) neither cure nor
vaccine (b) neither cure neither vaccine
(c) either cure or vaccine
