Going under
Level 1
Elementary
Scanning for information
3
First, read the text quickly to find the words and numbers in the box below. Underline them in the text.
Now, read the text again, and use the information from the box to complete the sentences below.
1. _____________ built the sewers in London.
2. The rain stopped in Oxfordshire at _____________.
3. _____________ were killed in floods last month in the north of England.
4. _____________ is a professor at Sheffield University.
5. Farm animals may die if they can’t drink water for _____________.
6. _____________ of rain fell in five hours in Brize Norton.
7. _____________ gave some information from Thames Water.
8.
In South Yorkshire, on _____________, it rained as much in one day as it usually rains in a month.
9. Flood water was _____________ deep in some towns in the south.
10. There are _____________ as many people living in London now as when the London sewers were built.
Vocabulary development
4
Find words in the text that mean the following. Paragraph numbers are given to help you.
1. ____________ –
kept somewhere, like a prisoner (para 3)
2. ____________ –
to think and plan how to build something (para 5)
3. ____________ –
succeed in working with (para 5)
4. ____________ –
special pieces of soft material for babies to wear because they can’t use the toilet (para 6)
5. ____________ –
covering (the ground) with hard material like concrete or bricks (para 8)
6. ____________ –
to wash away with a lot of water (para 8)
five
metres
eight people
121.2mm
5pm
Friday
June 25
Adrian Saul
the Victorians
four times
Nicola
Savage
48 hours
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