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Level 2 
B 
1. 
Eight and a half years 
2. 
From a hospital 
3. 
At a tennis club 
4. 
They were told by hospital personnel, chemist, taxi-drivers and friends or 
relatives 
5. 450 
dollars 
6. 
They were poor 
7. 
They were arrested because of the jewellery they gave to the nurse 
8. 
Up to 40,000 a year 
C 
1 poverty 
2 violence 
3 shameful 
4 painful 
5guilty 
6 dangerous 7 scientific 
8 humiliation 9 health 
10trauma 
D 
1 accused 
2 sentenced 3 stole
4 held
5 punished 
6 paid
7 divided 
8 caused 

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Level 3 
B 
1. 
Eight and a half years. 
2. 
Stealing morphine and other dangerous drugs. 
3. A 
marquee. 
4. 
They were told by friends or relatives, hospital personnel, chemists or taxi-
drivers. 
5. 
Jewellery – wedding rings, necklaces or earrings. 
6. 
Backwards villages in the Tras Os Montes region. 
7. 
Because, as long as abortion remains illegal, women will turn to backstreet 
clinics. 
8. 
Up to 40,000. 
C 
1. clandestine 
2. a 
fine 
3. lenient 
4. packed 
5. a 
marquee 
6. a 
fee 
7. 
to scrape together 
8. trauma 
9. slums 
10. a 
martyr 
D 
1. c; 2. h; 3. e; 4. a; 5. f; 6. b; 7. d; 8. g 

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Topical news Lessons
Level
Vocabulary and 
grammar
Discussion
 
 
 
'A chance to save millions of lives by freeing up drug patents'
Elementary
Prepositions
Word building
Intermediate
Acronyms
Word building
Advanced
Verb + noun 
collocations
Prepositions
Balancing the 
needs of the 
pharmaceutical 
companies with 
those of the poor

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Rebirth of the Reich land
Elementary
 
(includes key) 
There is/ are/ 
was/ were
Intermediate
Reported 
speech. 
Advanced
Phrases with 
It's 
time we....
Should extreme 
political parties 
be ignored by 
the media? 

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
Taken from the news section in 
www.onestopenglish.com
Fill the gaps using these words: 
reputation 
attractive 
federal 
Holocaust 
unemployed 
skinheads 
1. 
If something is ___________ it is very pleasant in some way. 
2. 
If a person is ___________, he or she has no job. 
3. 
The ___________ was the organised killing of millions of people during 
World War II. 
4. 
___________ are young men who cut off all their hair. 
5. 
___________ is the opinion other people have about how good or bad 
someone or something is. 
6. 
___________ means connected to the national government of a country.
Find the answers to these questions in the article: 
1. Where 
is 
Saxon 
Switzerland? 
2. 
What is the NPD? 
3. 
How many NPD MPs are in the Saxon parliament? 
4. 
How many people died in the bombing of Dresden? 
5. 
When was the bombing of Dresden? 
6. 
When did Adolf Hitler come to power?