City children suffering more Vocabulary slums very poor areas of a city with bad living conditions vulnerable exposed to harm identity details that state who someone is exploited treated unfairly for profit traffickers people who illegally transport...
Do women have unlimited human eggs? Summary 28 February 2012 Doctors in America say it may become possible to create an unlimited supply of human eggs, to help fertility treatment. Researchers found that when they extracted stem cells from the ovarie...
Call for more help for poorest farmers Summary27 February 2012 The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has said that the international community's efforts to fight hunger and poverty are inefficient and outdated. He said advances made by the digital rev...
Call for more help for poorest farmers Vocabulary coordination organising work efficiently agencies organisations setting up creating score card a piece of paper or document that a score can be officially recorded on harness control and make use of d...
Dictator disguise unwelcome at the Oscars Vocabulary dictators leaders who have total power over a country fictional not real, invented banned not allowed notoriously famous for something bad dressing up putting on a disguise adorned decorated promot...
Calls to protect Australia's koalas Summary23 February 2012 The Australian government has been urged to add the Koala to its list of nationally threatened species. Conservationists worry that the animal is heading towards extinction because of diseas...
Calls to protect Australia's koalas Vocabulary conservationists people who take an active part in the protection of the environment estimate roughly calculate threats things that could have a negative impact infertility not being able to produce babi...
Ocean life under threat Summary21 February 2012 There's heightened concern about the future state of the world's oceans. New research indicates that if seawater continues to acidify at the rate currently seen then the marine environment could lose ab...
Ocean life under threat Vocabulary absorbed taken in corroding gradually destroying simulates creates particular conditions that exist in real life using computers, models, etc, for research deteriorate become worse emitting giving off, releasing ind...
Making way for Eurovision In May, the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan will for the first time host the Eurovision Song Contest. The authorities are busy preparing the capital Baku, including building a new concert hall. But residents of nearby apar...
