The Reading / Listening - Supermarket Workers - Level 0

Supermarket staff in the UK have body cameras to protect themselves. Customers punch or pull knives on staff. Checkout workers are stressed, and worried about their safety. The number of attacks in one store has gone up by 30 per cent in a year. More than 200 of workers in that store are attacked each month.

There is a big rise in anti-social behaviour in Britain. A new survey shows that 72 per cent of voters think the UK is broken. A supermarket CEO wants new laws for people who attack staff. He said crime is bad for society. He said attacks on his staff were "unacceptable" and "heart-breaking".

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Supermarket Workers - Level 1 Supermarket Workers - Level 2   or  Supermarket Workers - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tesco-staff-body-cameras-violence-b2403998.html
  • https://www.nationalworld.com/news/tesco-workers-to-be-offered-body-cameras-after-huge-increase-in-violent-attacks-on-staff-4279396
  • https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12474103/Tesco-workers-offered-body-cameras-following-shocking-increase-number-violent-attacks-employees-200-staff-fall-victim-physical-assaults-month.html


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Supermarket staff
  2. body cameras to protect
  3. pull
  4. Checkout
  5. worried about their
  6. The number of attacks in
  7. gone up by 30 per cent in
  8. 200 workers in that store are
  1. safety
  2. knives on staff
  3. attacked each month
  4. themselves
  5. a year
  6. workers are stressed
  7. one store
  8. in the UK

Paragraph 2

  1. There is a big
  2. anti-social
  3. A new survey shows
  4. voters think the UK
  5. A supermarket CEO wants
  6. people who attack
  7. He said crime is
  8. unacceptable and
  1. is broken
  2. heart-breaking
  3. staff
  4. that
  5. rise
  6. bad for society
  7. behaviour
  8. new laws

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Supermarket (1) ___________________ UK have body cameras to protect themselves. Customers (2) ___________________ knives on staff. Checkout (3) ___________________, and worried about their safety. The (4) ___________________ in one store has gone up by 30 per cent in a year. More than 200 (5) ___________________ store are (6) ___________________.

There is a (7) ___________________ anti-social behaviour in Britain. (8) ___________________ shows that 72 per cent of (9) ___________________ UK is broken. A supermarket CEO wants (10) ___________________ people who attack staff. He said crime is (11) ___________________. He said attacks on (12) ___________________ "unacceptable" and "heart-breaking".

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

SupermarketstaffintheUKhavebodycamerastoprotectthemselves.C
ustomerspunchorpullknivesonstaff.Checkoutworkersarestressed,a
ndworriedabouttheirsafety.Thenumberofattacksinonestorehasgon
eupby30percentinayear.Morethan200workersinthatstoreareattac
kedeachmonth.Thereisabigriseinanti-socialbehaviourinBritain.An
ewsurveyshowsthat72percentofvotersthinktheUKisbroken.Asuper
marketCEOwantsnewlawsforpeoplewhoattackstaff.Hesaidcrimeisb
adforsociety.Hesaidattacksonhisstaffwere"unacceptable"and"heart
-breaking".

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

Write about this topic for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

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Answers

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