Yemen Crisis

Listen, and answer these questions

1. How much money does the United Nations want to raise for Yemen?
2. What did the article say Yemen was on the brink of?
3. How many people does the United Nations want to help?
4. How many Yemenis are close to dying from starvation?
5. What do 80 per cent of Yemenis need urgently?
6. What has the UN finally gained access to?
7. How many people can a food store feed for one month?
8. What was the UN worried might happen to some stored food?
9. What did the UN say people were balancing on the edge of?
10. What did the UN say people needed for their children?

 Fill in the correct words

1)  The United Nations has launched an appeal to raise ______ $4.2 billion
     a.  a whipping
     b.  a walloping
     c.  a whopper
     d.  a whopping
2) the country has been ravaged by years of war and is on ______ famine
     a.  the brink of
     b.  the blink of
     c.  the drink of
     d.  the blank of
3)  Yemenis are suffering from malnutrition and are close to dying ______
     a.  from stave nation
     b.  from starve nation
     c.  from starvation
     d.  from star nation
4) 80 per cent of the population needed urgent humanitarian assistance ______
     a.  and pro-tech shun
     b.  and pro detect shun
     c.  and pro detection
     d.  and protection
5)  suffering of the people in Yemen has reached a scale not seen in ______
     a.  living memorial
     b.  living memories
     c.  living memorise
     d.  living memory

6)  The UN announced it had finally gained access to ______ warehouses
     a.  food stored at
     b.  foodie stored that
     c.  fodder stored at
     d.  fodder stored that
7)  The port has been inaccessible for the past six months because of ______
     a.  heavily fighting
     b.  heavy fighting
     c.  heavies fighting
     d.  heavenly fighting
8)  The UN was worried because the food was at ______
     a.  risqué of rotting
     b.  risky of rotting
     c.  risk off rotting
     d.  risk of rotting
9) millions of people in Yemen, who are literally balancing on the ______
     a.  edgy of famine
     b.  edge of famine
     c.  edged of famine
     d.  hedge of famine
10)  They need massive amounts of aid, water, ______ education
     a.  satiation, and
     b.  starvation, and
     c.  sanitation, and
     d.  stagnation, and

Multiple Choice

1)  How much money does the United Nations want to raise for Yemen?
a) $42 billion
b) $4.2 billion
c) $2.4 billion
d) $24 billion

2)  What did the article say Yemen was on the brink of?
a) success
b) collapse
c) war
d) famine

3) How many people does the United Nations want to help?
a) over 19 million
b) exactly 19 million
c) around 19 million
d) under 19 million

4) How many Yemenis are close to dying from starvation?
a) over a quarter of a million
b) exactly a quarter of a million
c) nearly a quarter of a million
d) under a quarter of a million

5) What do 80 per cent of Yemenis need urgently?
a) washing powder and soap
b) humanitarian assistance and protection
c) reuniting with families
d) hope

6) What has the UN finally gained access to?
a) food at a warehouse
b) an explosives warehouse
c) a road link
d) the Internet 

7) How many people can a food store feed for one month?
a) just over 3.7 million people
b) just under 3.7 million people
c) around 3.7 million people
d) exactly 3.7 million people

8) What was the UN worried might happen to some stored food?
a) it might rot
b) it might be stolen
c) mice might eat it
d) it might melt

9) What did the UN say people were balancing on the edge of?
a) famine and starvation
b) disaster
c) war
d) collapse

10) What did the UN say people needed for their children?
a) hope
b) toys
c) blankets
d) education

Synonym match

1. appeal
2. whopping
3. ravaged
4. malnutrition
5. suffering
6. stored
7. enough
8. rotting
9. withdraw
10. literally

1. pull out
2. poor diet
3. decaying
4. ruined
5. sufficient
6. plea
7. actually
8. hardship
9. huge
10. kept

Phrase Match

1. an appeal to raise a
2. alleviate the humanitarian
3. the country has been ravaged
4. on the brink
5. reached a scale not seen
6. it had finally gained access to
7. The port has been
8. the food was at risk
9. It has really been a horrific year
10. literally balancing on the edge

1. of famine
2. of famine
3. food stored at warehouses
4. by years of war
5. for millions
6. crisis in Yemen
7. of rotting
8. in living memory
9. inaccessible
10. whopping $4.2 billion

Vocabulary

   Paragraph 1

1.	launched	a.	Make suffering or a lack of something less severe; make a situation better.
2.	whopping	b.	Extreme scarcity of food.
3.	alleviate	c.	Started or set in motion an activity, campaign, project or business.
4.	ravaged	d.	Very, very large.
5.	on the brink	e.	Caused severe and extensive damage to.
6.	famine	f.	A point at which something, typically something unwelcome, is about to happen.
7.	suffering	g.	The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship.

   

8.	inaccessible	h.	Really; in reality.
9.	rotting	i.	Unable to be reached.
10.	rebel	j.	There being an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
11.	horrific	k.	Suffering or death caused by hunger.
12.	literally	l.	The process of decaying and becoming bad.
13.	starvation	m.	The public health provision of clean drinking water and adequate sewage disposal.
14.	sanitation	n.	A person who opposes or fights in armed resistance against a government or ruler.