English Reading Workshop "A Hungry Planet" NAME CLASS DATE Vocabulary focus! I.- Match the words from the box with its definition. undernourished nutrient 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 food Harmful healthy disease Something that causes damage or injury To have insufficient quantity or quality of food. Substance that provides energy to the body Good physical and mental condition To be extremely thin Meat or vegetables that we eat Sickness that affects the organism II.- Complete this crisscross puzzle following the numbers from last activity. underweight Let's Read! III.- Read the following text and underline the words from the previous activity. IV.- Look in the text and find cognates and all those words you can identify. The greatest scandal of our age is that just under 1 billion people on the planet go to bed hungry every night. This is despite the fact that we produce more than enough to feed every single person in the world. The problem is not a shortage but rather that the undernourished who need food most cannot access it. People who are chronically hungry don’t eat enough to provide the energy they need for an active life. Their malnutrition makes it hard to study, work or perform physical activities. Malnutrition is particularly harmful for women and children. Undernourished children do not grow as healthy children and mentally they may develop more slowly. Constant hunger weakens the immune system and makes people more vulnerable to diseases. Mothers living with constant hunger often give birth to underweight and weak babies, and face increased risk of death in childbirth. V.- Look in the text the following words and circle them. What do they mean? a) AND: ________ b) BUT: ________ c) OR: _________ d) THAT: _______ VI.- Answer these questions. a) What the greatest scandal of our age? ________________________________________________________________________________ b) What does it means "chronically hungry? ________________________________________________________________________________ c) What happens to children who doesn't have enough food? ________________________________________________________________________________ In your Words! Why do you think hungry exists in the world if we have food for everyone to eat? _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________
