The Reading / Listening - Refugees - Level 0

Many refugees are escaping from wars. They all want to live in a safe country. More than forty multinational companies will give jobs to 250,000 refugees. They will help the refugees in the next three years. The United Nations is happy about this. It said the jobs "are absolutely essential".

There are 110 million refugees worldwide. Around 22 million of these are from Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan. The U.N. said: "Every number is a story of an individual family who left everything, seeking safety." Amazon is giving jobs to refugees. It said refugees bring diversity and creativity.

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    Refugees - Level 1 Refugees - Level 2   or  Refugees - Level 3

Sources
  • https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-refugees-hiring-b788fcf75597e8a5f1f0a846e0b58c37
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/06/19/amazon-starbucks-others-vow-to-help-250000-refugees-in-europe-get-jobs/
  • https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Many refugees are escaping
  2. They all want to live
  3. More than forty
  4. give jobs
  5. They will
  6. in the next
  7. The United Nations is
  8. absolutely
  1. essential
  2. multinational companies
  3. help the refugees
  4. from wars
  5. happy about this
  6. in a safe country
  7. three years
  8. to 250,000 refugees

Paragraph 2

  1. There are 110 million refugees
  2. Around 22 million of
  3. Syria
  4. Every number is a
  5. an individual
  6. seeking
  7. Amazon is giving
  8. refugees bring diversity
  1. family
  2. story
  3. and creativity
  4. worldwide
  5. jobs to refugees
  6. these are from Ukraine
  7. safety
  8. and Afghanistan

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

(1) ___________________ escaping from wars. They (2) ___________________ live in a safe country. (3) ___________________ multinational companies will give jobs to 250,000 refugees. (4) ___________________ the refugees in the (5) ___________________. The United Nations is happy about this. It (6) ___________________ "are absolutely essential".

There (7) ___________________ refugees worldwide. Around 22 million (8) ___________________ from Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan. The U.N. said: "Every number (9) _______________ of an individual family (10) ___________________, seeking safety." Amazon is (11) ___________________ refugees. It said refugees bring (12) ___________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Manyrefugeesareescapingfromwars.Theyallwanttoliveinasafecount
ry.Morethanfortymultinationalcompanieswillgivejobsto250,000refu
gees.Theywillhelptherefugeesinthenextthreeyears.TheUnitedNatio
nsishappyaboutthis.Itsaidthejobs"areabsolutelyessential".Therear
e110millionrefugeesworldwide.Around22millionofthesearefromUkr
aine,SyriaandAfghanistan.TheU.N.said:"Everynumberisastoryofani
ndividualfamilywholefteverything,seekingsafety."Amazonisgivingj
obstorefugees.Itsaidrefugeesbringdiversityandcreativity.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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Free writing

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Answers

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