EUROPEAN SECTION
year 7 English — summer review work
Exercises answers
Exercise 13
Hassan [_____is_____] 13 years old. He [____works____]
in the streets. He [____shines____] shoes in the southern part of the capital of Somalia.
(BE, SHINE, WORK)
On a good day, he [__earns__] 50 cents. He [__shares__] a house
with his grandparents and his sister.
(EARN, SHARE)
His earnings [__mean__] a small contribution for the family economy.
Hyperinflation [__makes__] survival very difficult.
The cost of rice and flour [____is____] now 10% higher than in April.
(BE, MAKE, MEAN)
Other children [__wash__] cars, [__wash__] dishes,
or [__work__] as domestic servants.
(WASH, WASH, WORK)
They [__have__] to [___be___] careful:
robbers [__steal__] their money and soldiers sometimes [__shoot__]
at each other in the streets.
(BE, HAVE, SHOOT, STEAL)
Hassan [__says__] that working in the streets of Mogadishu
[___is___] a fight for survival.
(BE, SAY)
"My friends and I [__work__] as shoe-shiners but sometimes
there [___is___] fighting near where we [___are___],
and we often [___see___] dead and injured people all around the place,"
[__says__] Hassan.
(BE, BE, SEE, SAY, WORK)
Bullets fired daily in the civil conflict [__injure__]
or even [___kill___] many street children.
(INJURE, KILL)
"I do not [____go____] close to the Somali government forces or the foreign forces.
They [___kill___] shoe-shine boys because they [__think__]
we [____are____] spies," [___says___] Osman, a friend of Hassan.
(BE, GO, KILL, SAY, THINK)
is, works, shines
earns, shares
mean, makes, is
wash, wash, work
have, be, steal, shoot
says, is
work, is, are, see, says
injure, kill
go, kill, think, are, says
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