Topical News Lessons

Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences. 
1. Some scientists are worried because …
2. They copied the virus because …
3. Some scientists believe a pandemic will not happen because …
4. Scientists copied the Spanish flu virus …
5. The 1918 flu pandemic …
6. Bird flu …
a. … they wanted to find out why it was so lethal.
b. … by using material from the lungs of people who died from the virus.
c. … started with bird flu.
d. … the Spanish flu virus might escape from the laboratory.
e. … might pass from birds to humans.
f. … most people are naturally immune.
Fill the gaps using prepositions. Check your answers in the text. 
1. escape _______
2. inject _______
3. worried _______
4. information _______
5. die _______
6. mix _______
7. protect _______
8. different _______

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Fill in the missing letters to make adjectives from the text. 
1. i _ p_ _ t_ _ t
2. w _ _ r_ _ d
3. _ f r _ _ d
4. s _ _ p _ _ s _ d
5. p _ w_ r _ _ _
6. d _ _ g _ _ o _ s
7. d _ _ f _ r _ n t
8. p _ s _ _ b l _
Put these words from the text into the correct column according to their word 
stress. 
powerful
publication
laboratory
naturally
dangerous
influenza
internet security biologist
a. o o O o
b. O o o
c. o O o o
information
scientist experiment
____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________ ____________
____________ ____________
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