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Complete the expressions from the text by adding an appropriate preposition. 
1. give rise _______ 
2. merge _______ 
3. _______ scratch 
4. responsible _______ 
5. available _______ 
6. injected _______ 
7. escape _______ 
8. similarities _______ 
Is it ethically and morally right to recreate dangerous diseases for the purposes of 
research? Make a list of the points for and against such research. 

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005 
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KEY 
1 Key 
verbs 
1. outweighs 
2. merge 
3. takes hold 
4. piece together 
5. disclose 
6. evolve 
7. recover 
8. multiply 
2 
What do you know? 
 
1. c; 2. a; 3. c; 4. b 
3 Comprehension 
check 
1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. F; 5. T; 6. F 
4 
Vocabulary 1 - Find the word 
1. lethal 
2. influenza 
3. contemporary 
4. strain 
5. rebuild, reconstruct 
6. painstakingly 
7. contaminated 
8. alarmed 
5 
Vocabulary 2 - Idioms 
1. c; 2. e; 3. d; 4. a; 5. f; 6. b 
6 
Collocations - Expressions with prepositions 
1. to 
2. with 
3. from 
4. for 
5. to 
6. with 
7. from 
8. to 

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Topical news Lessons
Level
Vocabulary and 
grammar
Discussion
Giving power to the people 
Elementary
Word building
Intermediate
Verb to noun 
word building
Prepositions
Advanced
Collocations
Are boycotts an 
effective means 
of protest? 

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Topical news Lessons
Level
Vocabulary and 
grammar
Discussion
 
Working the land to feed the people (The MST in Brazil)
Elementary
Word building
Intermediate
Word building
Prepositions
Advanced
Collocations
The suffixes 
less
and 
full
In Brazil a 
popular 
movement is 
battling against 
big business 
farming and GM 
crops.
 

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Pre-reading
Key Vocabulary
These words are important for understanding the text. Match the words with the definitions.
solution
someone who is expected to be in a place but is not there.
reform
a plant grown for food, usually on a farm.
to occupy
a small hard part produced by a plant that can grow into a new plant.
absentee
to improve a situation by correcting things.
landowner
empty or finished, because a supply of something has all been used.
peasant
a way to solve a problem or deal with a bad situation. 
to oppose
the substance in which plants grow.
Crop
to be in control of a place that you have entered by force.
fertiliser
a natural or chemical substance which helps plants to grow.
pesticide
a person who owns land.
exhausted
someone who works on another person’s farm or their own small farm
soil
a chemical used for killing insects.
seed
to disagree with or disapprove of a plan or policy.
True or False?
Find the answers in the text.
TRUE FALSE
1 Brazil is one of the world’s biggest producers of food.
2 Half of the population of Brazil is hungry.
3 Twenty years ago more than 5 million people lost their homes in three southern states.
4 Between 1981 and 1984 277 absentee landlords were murdered.
5 At first the poor families planted food instead of cash crops.
6 The fertilisers and pesticides made them ill.
7 Now people farm in the same way their parents and grandparents farmed.
8 Between 1995 and 1999 260,000 families got land from the government.
9 In the same period nearly 1 million small farmers lost their land.
10 Monsanto is a big biotech company.
Working the land to feed the people
L E V E L O N E
- 
E L E M E N TA RY

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Working the land to feed the people
L E V E L O N E
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E L E M E N TA RY