Coronavirus

    Profesor Enrique Ponce

    1)      Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

caught
emergency
suspended
already
season
possible
spread
ahead

Nations around the world are preparing for a (1) ____________ major outbreak of a new deadly virus. The coronavirus, which started in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has (2) ____________ killed 17 people. It has (3) ____________ to the USA, Japan, Korea and Thailand. More than 540 people have (4) ____________ the virus and are in hospital. The World Health Organization (WHO) is meeting to decide whether the outbreak is a global health (5) ____________. China is urging people not to panic (6) ____________ of the Chinese New Year next week. Millions of Chinese will be travelling across the country to spend the holiday (7) ____________ with their families. Meanwhile, the city of Wuhan has (8) ____________ its public transport systems to help stop the spread of the virus.

   2)      Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

contagious
breathing
mutated
further
virologist
cure
illegally
symptoms

The new coronavirus is suspected to have come from (9) ____________ traded animals in a Wuhan market. The virus (10) ____________ and spread from an animal to a human. There are fears it could mutate and spread (11) ____________. Scientists say the virus is (12) ____________ and can be passed from person to person through the air. Dr Linfa Wang, a (13) ____________ at the Duke-National University of Singapore, said the new coronavirus is in the same family as SARS, but it's different from SARS. He said people needed to look for pneumonia-like (14) ____________, such as fever, cough and difficulty (15) ____________. Fu Ning, a 36-year-old woman from Beijing, said: "I feel fearful because there's no (16) ____________ for the virus."

    3)      Answer these questions according to the text and to what we know nowadays:

a)      Where did the coronavirus start?

b)      What did the World Health Organization declare?

c)      What are the countries with the biggest number of dead people?

d)     What are the symptoms of this virus?