Six thousand women missing from top jobs
Level 1
Elementary
Pronunciation: Word stress
6
Language development: Word order
7
Put these 3-syllable words from the text into the correct column according to their stress pattern.
flexible professions attitudes powerful company successful
commission politics elections everyone promotion directors
Put these words in the correct order to make useful sentences. The first word in each sentence
is done for you.
1. There / not / women / still / nearly / are / enough
2. But / can’t / far / go / still / they
3. They / want / to / don’t / women /
choose
4. There / two / MPs / black / are / women / only
5. Life / white / is / top / the / at / male / and
6. There / so / be / more / done / to / is / much
Now read the text quickly to see if you were right.
par
liament
as
sem
bly
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