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 Billionaires ‘adding to poverty’
Level 2
Intermediate
Warmer
1
a. Write the following numbers.
one hundred and eighty-nine billion
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thirty-one trillion
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b. How many billionaires can you name?
c. What is Oxfam?
Key words
2
Write the key words from the article next to the definitions below. Then find the words in the article to read 
them in context. The paragraph numbers are given to help you.
1. stopping someone or something from making progress or developing __________________ (para 1)
2. to make an organized attempt to deal with a problem, often a social problem __________________ (para 1)
3. the process by which something increases in amount over time __________________ (para 2)
4. money that someone gets from working or from investing money __________________ (para 2)
5. 
financial help __________________ (para 2)
6. a situation in which someone does not have enough money to pay for their basic needs __________________ 
(para 2)
7. people who are extremely rich __________________ (para 5)
8. as different from each other as they could possibly be __________________ (para 6) 
9. a situation in which people are not equal because some have more opportunities, power, money, etc than 
others __________________ (para 6)
10. places where people go to live, or where they keep their money, so that they do not have to pay higher taxes in 
their home country __________________ (para 15)