Global Issues and Essential English Language Practice

Teenager Designs: Ocean Cleanup Innovation

1. It will be useful for cleaning the plastic rubbish that floats in our seas.
2. Because it can be toxic for fish and eventually harm human beings.
3. Yes, some environmental companies want to produce the device in the near future.
4. True (line 5)
5. False (line 11)
6. Antonym Pair: Sinking : Floating
7. Word: Stink
8. Word: Advantage
9. Word Form: Efficient : Efficiency
10. Question: What has Boyan invented?
11. Humans produce the plastic rubbish with which the seas are polluted.
12. Boyan Slat said that he was going to earn a lot of money with that device.
13. Our planet would be much cleaner.

Malala Yousafzai: The Fight for Education

1. Because they are afraid of what education means and involves.
2. He means that the Taliban cannot read.
3. She is asking the world leaders to defend the right of all children, regardless of their race or religion, to free, compulsory education.
4. False (line 2-3)
5. True (line 8-9)
6. Synonym: Obligatory : Compulsory
7. Antonym: Forget : Remember
8. Word: Weapon
9. Preposition: From
10. A reporter asked the boy why the Taliban were against education.
11. They were cooking dinner when we arrived.
12. Question: What are extremists afraid of?
13. There are millions of children in developing countries who have the same right to education as the rest of us.

Phubbing: Are You Snubbing Your Friends?

1. (D)
2. (D)
3. False
4. False
5. False
6. True
7. Word: Discourage (line 12)
8. Antonym: Rude : Polite
9. Preposition: For
10. Word Form: Talk : Talkative
11. Synonym: Irritating : Annoying
12. Verb Tense: Had paid
13. We had better talk to each other face to face.
14. Question: Where did you lose your cell phone?
15. Customers are asked to stop phoning while they are ordering.
16. The waiter said that those people were not listening to their friends then.

Keyword: Screen

Dinosaurs: Paleontology and Grammar Practice

1. (B)
2. (C)
3. False
4. True
5. True
6. False
7. Synonym: Investigation : Research
8. Preposition: Beyond
9. Preposition: Up
10. Word Family: Ability : Able, Unable, Disabled
11. Verb Tense: Have ever seen
12. Word: Pray
13. Parents should take good care of their children.
14. Question: Who did Cecilia bake the carrot for?
15. You wouldn't have had an accident.
16. The owner showed us the house.
17. This room is not warm enough for the babies.

Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the Number 13

1. (B)
2. (A)
3. True (line 2)
4. True (line 12-13)
5. True (line 10-11)
6. False (line 3)
7. Word: Forms
8. Word: Aware
9. Word: Prove
10. Verb Tense: Has beaten
11. Gerund/Participle: Hitting
12. Word: Base
13. Kate, who was playing against my sister, won the tennis match.
14. Question: What is the number 13 synonymous with?
15. Noisier than him.
16. If only I had listened to you.
17. I won't.