Paragraph 1. Paragraph 2. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
Paragraph 1
1.
| at risk
| a.
| Free from having to do something or having something done to you.
| 2.
| exempt
| b.
| The things that are true.
| 3.
| catch
| c.
| Stop something from happening.
| 4.
| truth
| d.
| Get an illness, infection or disease.
| 5.
| urged
| e.
| Keep away from or stop oneself from doing something.
| 6.
| avoid
| f.
| In danger.
| 7.
| prevent
| g.
| Tried hard to get someone to do something.
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Paragraph 2
8.
| invincible
| h.
| The possibility of selecting between two or more things.
| 9.
| choice
| i.
| The state of being alive and living.
| 10.
| life
| j.
| An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.
| 11.
| death
| k.
| Important.
| 12.
| significant
| l.
| The action or fact of dying or being killed.
| 13.
| proportion
| m.
| Too strong to be defeated.
| 14.
| issue
| n.
| A part, share, or number compared to a whole.
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1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).
- The WHO told young people they are at risk from COVID-19.T / F
- The article says 90% or young people think they cannot catch the virus.T / F
- The WHO said only aged people can catch COVID-19.T / F
- The White House urged people not to gather in large groups.T / F
- The WHO warned young people they are not invincible.T / F
- The WHO said young people must think about where they go. T / F
- Many COVID-19 hospital patients are under 50 years old.T / F
- New York's governor said young people were following rules.T / F
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
- warning
- at risk
- mistakenly
- catch
- prevent
- invincible
- sick
- proportion
- rules
- endangering
- wrongly
- threatening
- stop
- part
- contract
- cautioning
- regulations
- in danger
- ill
- indestructible
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
- they are also at
- mistakenly believe they will not catch
- becoming ill
- urged young adults
- help prevent the spread
- You are not
- the difference between life
- A significant proportion of patients
- following the state's social-
- This is a public health
- the virus
- treated in hospital
- risk from COVID-19
- issue
- and death
- to follow advice
- distancing rules
- or dying from it
- of the virus
- invincible
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