Pentecostal School (19-20)

F.5 English Language

Audio clip Listening Practice No.________

Name: ________________ Class: _______ ( ) Date: ________________

Name of the news clip:

________________________________________________________

Source: ______________________________________ Date:

_________________________

(I) Read and listen to the news of SCMP audio clips and answer the following questions:

General information
1. How many countries are mentioned in the audio clip? _7_____________________
2. Which country has suffered the highest amount of confirmed cases of coronavirus
cases other than China?
Italy _______________________________________________________________

Italy
1. How did one doctor at an intensive care unit in the northern Italy describe the
seriousness of the Cononavirus?
It’s not a wave. It’s a tsunami.
______________________________________________________________

2. How many cases are now in Italy till March 15? _______________________

Spain
1. Spain is under a _______________ _________________ for at least two weeks.
2. What can’t people do remotely? List 3 examples.
a. ___________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________
 c. ___________________________________________________
France
1. All government and parliamentary nations must make use of all the resources to
____________ the epidemic.
2. What do the French citizens have to do in the coming 15 days? What would they
result in if they do not do so?
____________________________________________________________________
3. What does the president ask the parliament to do?
To _____________________________ to give his cabinet the power to manage the
Covid-19 crisis.

Germany
1. Germany has the _______________ highest number of Covid infections in Europe.
2. All non-essential shops have to be ____________________ with no time frame on
when to reopen.
3. Why are German citizens asked to stop from travelling overseas?
___________________________________________________________________
4. What are the public health expert warning as the Covid-19 continues to spread
worldwide?
___________________________________________________________________

United Kingdom
1. How did the British Prime Minister describe the seriousness of the inflection?
___________________________________________________________________
2. What is the approach of UK government using to stop the spread of Covid-19?
___________________________________________________________________
3. What are the symptoms of the virus mentioned? List 2
___________________________________________________________________
4. Why do critics say that the UK government’s measures are not strict enough?
___________________________________________________________________
 Indonesia
1. Medical professionals criticized that the Covid-19 cases are either ______________ or
______________________.
2. What is the argument of the Indonesia’s health minister claim to the zero cases of
Covid-19 infection in February?
___________________________________________________________________
3. What are the worries of the activists in the county?
They worry that the millions of the poor Indonesians would be ____________
_____________________.
4. What are the problems the poor Indonesians face at their usual daily routine? List 3
a. ___________________________________________________
b. ___________________________________________________
c. ___________________________________________________

5. “Just to make the end meets” is the attitude that most of the Indonesian living in
poverty have. It means ____________________________________________

Vocabulary building

1. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), Europe has now become the
epicenter of the pandemic
2. epidemic
3. nationwide
4. lockdown
5. bar from leaving home
6. combat
7. violate (v) violator (n)
8. decree
9. govern (v)
10.approve a law
11.religious facilities
12.sporting venues
13.refrain from doing something
14.spread steadily
15.around the globe (worldwide)
16.drastic
17.curb the spread
18.self-isolate
19.adopt
20.symptoms of virus
21.persistent cough
22.fever
23.mass gatherings
24.strict
25.critics
26.measures
27.medical professionals
28.undetected
29.urge
30.scale up
31.emergency response measure
32.infection
33.transmission