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Socıety 3

Reading and Vocabulary

A. Discuss with a partner.
1. Are you familiar with the work that Oxfam do?
2. Look at their goals on the top right of the photo. What do you think they hope to achieve?
3. Is it common to see fair-trade products in shops in your country? What type of products?

4. Are there many second-hand shops in your area? What do they sell?

B. Match the words with their definitions.

1. discrimination a. an extreme lack of food in a particular area
2. homeless b. an extreme number of people for the resources available
3. famine c. areas where people stay when they have had to leave their homes
4. illiterate d. the act of negatively treating people in a different way to others
5. migration e. the action of moving from one area to another

6. overpopulation f. the state of being unable to read or write
7. poverty g. the state of having very little or no money and resources
8. refugee camps h. the state of living on the streets

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