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Complete the table. 
 verb 
 noun 
1.
predict
____________ 
2.
react
____________ 
3. explode ____________ 
4.
employ 
____________ 
5.
apologize 
____________ 
6.
criticize 
____________ 
7.
treat 
____________ 
8.
recognize 
____________ 
What factors can lead to the kind of situation seen in France? What solutions are 
there? 

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
Taken from the 
News 
section in 
www.onestopenglish.com
KEY 
1 Key 
vocabulary 
1.
vermin 
2.
ghetto 
3.
unprecedented 
4.
immigrant 
5.
harassment 
6.
scum 
7.
contemptuous 
8.
riot 
2 
Find the information 
1.
Clichy-sous-Bois 
2.
The French interior 
minister 
3.
1991 
4.
Above 40% 
5.
A brand of industrial cleaner 
6.
The French Prime Minister 
3 Comprehension 
check 
1. b; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a 
4 
Vocabulary 1 - Find the Word 
1.
agent provocateur 
2.
suburb/suburbs 
3.
time-bomb 
4.
decade 
5.
colony 
6.
teargas 
7.
electorate 
8.
manipulate 
5 
Vocabulary 2 - Opposites 
1.
urban 
2.
pessimistic 
3.
violent 
4.
common 
5.
major 
6.
false 
7.
fit 
8.
tense 
6 Word 
building 
1.
prediction 
2.
reaction 
3.
explosion 
4.
(un)employment 
5.
apology 
6.
criticism 
7.
treatment 
8.
recognition 

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©
Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
Taken from the 
News 
section in 
www.onestopenglish.com
Fill the gaps using these key words from the text. 
massive 
impoverished 
upheaval harassment 
contemptuous 
unprecedented 
widespread 
ghettoized 
1.
If a place is ____________ , particular groups of people are forced to live in particular areas 
of that place. 
2.
____________ is a sudden or violent change, especially one that affects people’s lives. 
3.
If something is ____________ , it happens or exists in many places or affects large numbers 
of people. 
4.
____________ means ‘extremely large’. 
5.
If something is ____________ , it has never happened or existed before. 
6.
____________ is another word for ‘very poor’. 
7.
____________ is annoying or unpleasant behaviour towards other people that takes place 
regularly. 
8.
If you are ____________ of someone, you show that you do not respect them. 
Choose the best answer. 
1. The recent riots in French cities were started by 
a. police harassment of young people of North African origin 
b. the deaths of two young men 
c. the high level of unemployment in French cities 
2. The riots began in 
a. Lyon 
b. a suburb in the north-east of Paris 
c. the centre of Paris 
3. Nicholas Sarkozy is 
a. the President of France 
b. the Mayor of Paris 
c. the interior minister 
4. When are the next presidential elections in France? 
a. 2007 
b. 2006 
c. 2005