NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES.
THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:
1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.
2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.
1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT
1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or False (F):
a. Many priests in the Catholic Church were sexually abused.
b. People have asked the Pope to stand down from being Pope.
c. The Catholic Church has its biggest crisis in 2,000 years.
d. Someone accused the Pope of concealing the abuse of up to 200 boys.
e. The media is covering an increasing number of Church abuse stories.
f. The Vatican is angry people are telling the Pope what to do.
g. The Vatican is a sovereign nation and can be sued by the USA.
h. A reporter got his foot stuck in the Pope’s door.
1.2 SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1.huge ................... a.press
2.calls .................... b.hid it
3.covered it up .......... c.more
4.monitoring ............. d.fake
5.fraud .................... e.forceful
6.media ................... f.enormous
7.broken out .............. g.checking
8.aggressive .............. h.journalists
9.further ................... i.requests
10.reporters ............... j.started
1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1.facing a huge number ................... a.to resign
2.calls for Pope Benedict XVI .............. b.in the door
3.the Pope’s role as head ................ c.fought back
4.people now say he failed to punish .... d.further
5.The Pope is a fraud ..................... e.of the Vatican
6.reporting on more and more ........... f.of lawsuits
7.The Vatican has ......................... g.a statement
8.Officials released ....................... h.cases of cover-ups
9.no one would comment any ............ i.and a hypocrite
10.this is the first foot ................... j.a priest
1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:
disaster - massacre - runway - cause - way - officials - profile - central
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski died this morning in a plane crash in Russia. He was on his ____________ to the town of Smolensk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn ____________. This was the killing of 22,000 Polish officers by Soviet security forces near Smolensk during WWII. Dozens of other high-____________ Polish officials also died in the air ____________, which no one survived. Among the 96 who lost their lives were Poland’s army chief, the governor of Poland’s ____________ bank, politicians, bishops and leading historians. Details are emerging of the ____________ of the crash. Safety ____________ believe it might have been due to human error. The plane hit trees in thick fog as it approached the airport’s ____________.
facing - within - saddened - anguish - board - disaster - tears - crisis
The crash has caused great ____________ in Poland. One comment on Twitter by a Polish woman said it was the biggest ____________ for Poland in the past 50 years. Another tweeter said Poland is now ____________ its worst political ____________ since it escaped from communism in 1989. Two dozen of the country’s top politicians were on ____________ the plane. The BBC's Adam Easton, reporting from Warsaw, said the crash was a catastrophe for the Polish people. He reported that Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk was in ____________ at the news of the tragedy. British leader Gordon Brown said the whole world was “____________”. The country must now announce a presidential election in the next two weeks. The poll will take place ____________ two months of the announcement.
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