Week 6: Check Yourself!

Instructions: In the following activity you will read a letter sent to a magazine by their reader to suggest ways to improve the kind of help to famine victims. Pause the video here and fill in the appropriate linking words, one is done as an example. After you finish, start the video to see if your answers are correct.(Note that question one has been completed for you as an example.)

Possible Answers:

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Dear Sir, 

I feel that the aid we give to famine victims at the moment is simply not sufficient. This is partly 1) {due to the fact that} there is not enough money available for famine relief, and current supplies of food and medicine are being wasted or stolen. Famine victims need permanent solutions as well as immediate help. 

2) {_____________}, much more money could be raised by holding charity concerts and other money-raising events. 3) {_____________}, international organisations would receive the money they need to provide emergency famine relief and 4) {_____________} be able to save thousands of lives. 

5) {_____________} of helping victims would be for wealthy countries to send food and medical supplies directly to areas affected by famine. 6) {_____________}, by improving administration and transport, supplies would be certain to reach  those people who really need them.

7){_____________} to educate farmers in famine areas so that they could improve their farming techniques, 8){_____________} making sure that famine is less likely to occur in the future. 

9) {_____________}, it is extremely difficult to solve the problem of famine. If, however, the matter is taken seriously and world leaders join together to find solutions, the situation can be improved.