Past simple review

 

1. Read the headlines and guess T (true) or F (false)

Last year...

A) More than 11 million children died from preventable illnesses. TrueFalse 

B) 60 million children in the world were undernourished. TrueFalse

C) More than 33 million children suffered from vitamin A deficiency. TrueFalse

D) Two million children died because they didn't have clean drinking water. TrueFalse

E) 110 million children did not go to elementary school. Most of them were girls. TrueFalse

F) 500 million children in thee world were extremely poor. They lived on less than $1 a day. TrueFalse

G) Almost 500,000 child soldiers fought in different wars around the world. TrueFalse

H) 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 worked to support their families. TrueFalse 

 

2. Complete the texts.

 

1) Last year, millions of children diedied from diseases because they dodid not havehad access to vaccines or medical care. In fact, the majority of infant deaths beisareamwaswere from diarrhea. This is because the children havehad no clean drinking water, and when they were ill, there beisareamwaswere no money for medicine.

 

2) More than half a billion children livelived on less than one dollar a day. They beisareamwaswere so poor that they dodid not havehad the most basic thing. Some of these children beisareamwaswere homeless. They look forlooked for food in the trash and sleepslept outside.

 

3) The world leaders signsigned an agreement years ago. They promispromised to provide education for all the children. Last year more than a hundred million children dodid not gowent to school. Most of these children beisareamwaswere girls. They dodid not receivereceived a basic education, and they dodid not learnlearned how to read and write.

 

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