Social tensions
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A. Match each newspaper headline in the box with the first line of its accompanying story
below. Use the underlined words and expressions to help you.
A.
ILLEGAL ALIENS
TO BE EXPELLED
B.
ETHNIC MINORITIES
‘LIVING BELOW
POVERTY
LEVEL’
C.
HOMELESS SQUATTERS
EVICTED
D.
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
STILL A PROBLEM
E.
INTERNALLY DISPLACED
IN NEW
GENOCIDE
HORROR
F.
EXTREMISTS
ACCUSED OF INCITING
RACIAL HATRED
G.
UNREST, RIOTS
AND
ANARCHY
CONTINUE
H.
REBELS
VICTORIOUS IN LATEST
POWER STRUGGLE
I.
DISCRIMINATION
AND
EXPLOITATION
A MAJOR PROBLEM IN BRITISH INDUSTRY
J.
DISSIDENTS
ASK AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FOR
POLITICAL ASYLUM
1. Officers from the Thames Valley Police Force raided a house in Kidlington earlier this morning and
forcibly removed a family who had been staying there illegally since they lost their home in August.
2. Almost 50% of factory workers in national companies claim they have received
bad treatment or have
been taken advantage of because of their class, religion, race , language,
colour or sex, it has been
revealed.
3. The UN has accused the government of Zarislavia of further atrocities committed in the west of the
country, where hundreds of migrants are reported to have been killed by security forces.
4. Opponents of the government in Yugaria have asked to stay in Sydney because the political situation
in their own country is making it unsafe for them to return.
5. The police have once again been accused of discriminating
against minority groups, despite their
reassurances earlier this year that they had reformed their practices.
6. Neo-Nazi groups in Paris were today condemned for inciting violence against non-whites in the centre
of the city.
7. A shocking survey has revealed that almost 30% of Asian and African racial groups living in London
are suffering financial hardship.
8. Following further devaluation
of the Malovian dollar, violence has once again erupted on the streets
of the capital.
9. Groups fighting against the government of George Malikes in Livatia have succeeded in capturing and
occupying the parliament building.
10. The Government has ordered the immediate deportation of over 200 immigrants who entered the
country without passports or visas last year.
