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TASKS FOR THE ARTICLE
Ex.1. FOREIGNERS:Speak about the foreigners. Is this a good or bad word? Does the word ‘foreigners’ in your language have a good or bad image? Change partners often. After you finish, sit with your original partner(s) and share what you found out.
Ex.2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
migration / politicians / being taken by surprise / statistics / population / infrastructure / limits / sweeping change / wealth / cohesive communities
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
Ex.3. IMMIGRATION:What are the pros and cons of lots of people from other countries coming to your country to live. Discuss this with your partner(s). Use the items below to guide your discussions:
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Ex.4. MIGRATION HEADLINES:With your partner(s), talk about these newspaper headlines and the stories behind them. Which do you think are possible?
- Water refugees flood Southern Africa
- Record pollution forces evacuation of China
- UK now an iceberg – 50 million heading south
- Bangladesh flooded – Indian borders closed
- Mexico officially a desert – Millions at US border
- World financial system collapses – 200 million Americans homeless
- Nuclear war threatens Mid-East – millions on the move
Ex.5. MIGRATION:Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word “migration”. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
Ex.6. QUICK DEBATE:Students A think people should live in their own countries. Students B think migration creates a better and more cosmopolitan world. Change partners often. After your debates, share what you talked about.
Ex.7. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these
sentences are true (T) or false (F):
| a. | More and more Britons are leaving the UK for warmer countries. | T / F |
| b. | Politicians knew the immigration figures would be very high. | T / F |
| c. | Enough people to fill quite a big city will move to the UK by 2031. | T / F |
| d. | Politicians are confident the UK’s roads and hospitals will cope. | T / F |
| e. | British politicians are warning of possible overpopulation. | T / F |
| f. | A political party said there should be no limits on immigration. | T / F |
| g. | The immigration minister said immigrants increase the UK’s wealth. | T / F |
| h. | A migration expert warned of the importance of community. | T / F |
Ex.8. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
| 1. | rate | a. | reevaluated |
| annual | b. | amount | |
| 3. | revised | c. | fundamental |
| 4. | considerable | d. | burden |
| 5. | strain | e. | yearly |
| 6. | volume | f. | unified |
| 7. | sets in | g. | extensive |
| 8. | sweeping | h. | begins |
| 9. | radical | i. | speed |
| 10. | cohesive | j. | substantial |
Ex.9. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article
(sometimes more than one combination is possible):
| 1. | increasing at a rate that has taken | a. | figure to 190,000 migrants |
| 45,000 more than previously | b. | increasing numbers of people | |
| 3. | it has revised that | c. | on Britain’s infrastructure |
| 4. | population increase will now be due | d. | slow down the volume |
| 5. | put considerable strain | e. | predicted |
| 6. | calling for action to | f. | and sweeping changes |
| 7. | “an explicit annual limit" on | g. | action now |
| 8. | the need for swift | h. | politicians by surprise |
| 9. | we need to drive through radical | i. | to immigration |
| 10. | despite the ever- | j. | the number of people |
Ex.10. GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
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