My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book

Breaking News English

HOME  |   HELP MY SITE  |  000s MORE FREE LESSONS
 
My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book
 

HOW TO PLAY:

 1. Click this link to listen.

 2. Listen and choose the correct word in the grey box with the "up / down" arrows.

 3. Check your answers.

 4. Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

   absence      because      common      devices      fatherless      home      hours      life      much      norm      obsessed      orphans      plea      reasons      strong      themselves      time      trouble      workaholic      worse  
Pope Francis has issued a warning to fathers who work long . He criticised dads for being 'symbolically absent' from families and for making their children ''. The Pope was speaking to a congregation at the Vatican when he made his for fathers to spend more time with their children and get more involved in family . He said the of fathers in the family is one of the that children have problems growing up. He said fathers who focused too on their jobs was a cause of children and adolescents getting into .

The Pope said fathers being with their jobs and not spending with their family was very . He said: "Fathers are so focused on …and at times their personal fulfillment, that they even forget their families, leaving children…to their own ." He added: "The feeling of orphanhood experienced by many young people is than we might think." He said children are orphans their fathers are absent from the , and they do not act like fathers when they are at home. He warned that families could be accepted as the .

Back to the lesson page

 

THE NEXT LEVEL


E-mail this lesson to someone who would like to use it in classroom or study with it. 000's more free lessons.

MORE ACTIVITIES:

QUIZZES MORE QUIZZES PRINT SEAN'S OTHER SITES

Sentence Jumble

No Spaces

No letters

Gap-Fill

Consonants

Missing Letters

Initals Only

Text Jumble - 15

Text Jumble - 24

Vowels

Handout

Two-Page Mini-lesson.

SPEED READING

3 different speeds

LISTEN

MP3

 



Copyright © 2004-2015 by Sean Banville | Links | About | Privacy Policy