Relative sanitation servicing National

1. The figure for a country’s Gross………………….Product will be larger than that for its Gross…………………………….Product.
2. In countries where food is scarce, ……………………..is inevitably a major problem.
3. Using overseas aid for debt…………………..does not directly help any people who are suffering through poverty.
4. The amount of money earned by someone suffering from………………….poverty will be greater in a rich area than in a poor area, whereas……………….poverty does not take account of a person’s immediate environment.
5. The Child Poverty Action Group does all it can for the………………..of poverty among the children in the United Kingdom.
6. Temporary refugee camps usually have rather poor………………….facilities.

3. Match the two halves of the collocations. They are used in the text on page1.

poverty poverty

life deal

overseas servicing

minimum aid

debt standard

infant expectancy

trade line

income malnutrition

4. Choose the best word to complete each of these sentences.

1) A person who sleeps in a cardboard box on the street and begs for money can best be described as impoverished/destitute.

2) Without my husband’s income, we were very much living from hand to mouth/food.

3) When we were children, money was always small/tight.

4) Even children with rich parents can be deprived/destitute in terms of love and affection.

5) An increasing number of people live below the penury/breadline.

1. Write a paragraph about the issue of poverty in your own country.

READING COMPREHENSION 1

• What do you think it means to be wealthy?
• Why are some people wealthier than others?

Match the words and phrases with definitions:

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