My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book

Breaking News English

HOME  |  HELP MY SITE  |  000s MORE FREE LESSONS
 
My 1,000
Ideas
e-Book
 
 

HOW TO PLAY:

E-mail this lesson to someone who would like to use it in classroom or study with it. 000's more free lessons.

 1. Click this link to listen.

 2. Listen and choose the correct word in the grey box with the "up / down" arrows.

 3. Check your answers.

 4. Press the "refresh" button on your browser to play again.

Good Luck.
There are many food in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans cannot buy goods. This problem is made because people buy too much of when they see it in the stores. It's a kind of buying. President Nicolas Maduro has started a new to stop people buying too much. Shoppers must soon start scanning their fingerprints when they buy food at stores and supermarkets. This is to make sure that more people can buy an share of food and groceries. Mr Maduro has not said when the new system will start, but people to him say it could be January. It is also how much food people can buy and what happens if they buy too much.

There are many for Venezuela's food shortages. The government blames who buy cheap goods and take them to Colombia to resell them for up to four their original price. Another reason is that the government controls the of food. Many food companies say the price is too for them to make a profit, so they do not produce as much as they could. A reason is the strength of the US dollar against Venezuela's . This means it is very expensive to import food from other . Critics say the fingerprinting takes away people's and will not work. They say the whole economy needs to change and that the government needs to have control.

Back to the lesson page


MORE ACTIVITIES:
QUIZZES MORE QUIZZES PRINT READING SEAN'S OTHER SITES

Sentence Jumble

No letters

Gap-Fill

Word Order

Word Pairs

Grammar Gap-Fill

Articles Gap-Fill

Prepositions Gap-Fill

Consonants

Vowels

Missing Letters

Initals Only

Text Jumble - 15

Text Jumble - 24

No Spaces

 

26-Page Handout

Two-Page Mini-Lesson

 

LISTEN

MP3

Discussion Questions

 

DICTATION

10 Sentences

Spelling (12 Words)

Speed Reading
Activities

 

650+ Discussions (13,000+ Qs)

One-Minute Listening Lessons

Famous People Lessons

Holiday & Anniversary Lessons

Sean Banville on Twitter

My Blog

Free ESL Materials

Business English Materials

Lessons On All American Presidents

Lessons On Movies - Classic & New



Copyright © 2004-2014 by Sean Banville | Links | About | Privacy Policy