"Foot and mouth hits my area"

Publié le 9 Août 2007

Catégories : #La compréhension écrite

Read the following document several times before answering the questions
A. GENERAL COMPREHENSION

1. What sort of document is it?
a) an extract from a novel b) a TV report c) a press article d) a poem

2. Who is telling the event?
a) A young girl b) an Iranian journalist c) the police

3. Where does it take place?

4. When does it take place?

5. What's the story about?
a) People's reactions to the foot and mouth disease
b) A witness to the foot and mouth disease
c) A reaction of one of the victims of foot and mouth disease
d) A criticism of the police role facing the foot and mouth disease

B. DETAILED COMPREHENSION

6. Vocabulary
*Match the French to the English equivalent
Abattage cattle
Déclenchement culling
Bétail outbreak
* Find the word of the same lexical field of culling in the text
7. Reorder the facts
..... the police secured the place
..... she talked to a journalist
..... the animals were carried out of the farm
..... she asked the police for the end of the culling
..... helicopters hovered the area
..... she saw lots of journalists
8. What's the narrator's reactions? (several answers)
shocked ? surprised? afraid? anxious? worried? indifferent? puzzled?disgusted? astonished?
9. Right? Wrong?
a) Horses are not affected by the foot and mouth disease
b) Horses can't give the foot and mouth virus to other animals
c) All animals in the infected area are not allowed to move
d) Humans can get the foot and mouth disease in its human form
10. Summary to complete with the following words : can - secured - Surrey - mouth - infected - affected - and - outbreak - foot - culling.
There was an .................... of ........... .......... ......... disease in .................
The police ............... the area so that no one could go. The .................... of the cattle was necessary. Restrictions to the ...................... area were imposed so horses which............. spread the disease were concerned. Fortunately humans are not ................ by the disease .

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