Listening 1 Look at the photos and answer the questions. 1 What do the photos show? 2 2 Why do people do these things? 3 What is the best way for citizens to change things? 4 What protest actions have there been in your country? What were the results?
Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.
And now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, our health-care workers, doctors, nurses, EMTs and support staff who risk becoming infected themselves — who risk infecting their own families — are making extraordinary sacrifices to care for the rest of us. They do so, most infuriatingly, even as they have been put at greater risk than necessary by the avoidable shortages of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment.
1. My sister Julia German at university some years ago.
b) studied
2. they their family at Christmas? *
c) do/ visit
3. I can’t speak to you now, I the newspaper. *
d) am reading
4. They the dinner yet. *
a) haven’t made
5. Next week, I see my grandparents for dinner. *
c) ‘m going to
6. There are tomatoes in the fridge. *
b) some
7. My aunt lives in London, south of . *
d) the Thames
8. I’m sorry I talk to you. I’m busy. *
a) can’t
9) I was of a lot of clubs at school. *
c) a member
10. The weather was ! It rained all the time. *
d) awful
Объяснение:
Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.
And now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, our health-care workers, doctors, nurses, EMTs and support staff who risk becoming infected themselves — who risk infecting their own families — are making extraordinary sacrifices to care for the rest of us. They do so, most infuriatingly, even as they have been put at greater risk than necessary by the avoidable shortages of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment.