Hellenic –American Educational Foundation Name: ______________

Athens College- Psychico College Date: _______________

Psychico College Junior High School
English Department
Year 3/ Language Acquisition/ ph5

MYP Unit 3
“Why Poverty?”
Worksheet
ACTIVITY A (page 122)
Match the word from the box below to its definition.
Absolute Employment Malnutrition Marginalize
Aid Surplus Inequality Microcredit
Breadline Corruption Welfare Policies
Charity Exploitation Relative Poverty

1. __________________________: help in the form of food, money, medical supplies, or

weapons that is given by a richer country to a poorer country:
2. __________________________: to treat someone or something as if they are not
important
3. __________________________: physical weakness and bad health caused by having too
little food, or too little of the types of food necessary for good health
4. __________________________: set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations
that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a
government, or a political party
5. __________________________: very great or to the largest degree possible
6. __________________________: (an amount that is) more than is needed
7. __________________________: the condition of being extremely poor
8. __________________________: a system of payments made by the government to people
who are ill, poor, or who have no job
9. __________________________: a very small amount of money lent to a person or group,
especially in order to make it possible for people in poor countries to start businesses
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10. __________________________: the fact of someone being paid to work for a company or
organization
11. __________________________: the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
12. __________________________: a system of giving money, food, or help free to those who
are in need because they are ill, poor, or have no home, or any organization that has the
purpose of providing money or helping in this way
13. __________________________: illegal, bad, or dishonest behaviour, especially by people
in positions of power
14. __________________________: the unfair situation in society when some people have
more opportunities, money, etc. than other people
15. __________________________: being measured in comparison with something else
16. __________________________: the level of income people have when they are extremely
poor

ACTIVITY B (page 123)

Match the synonym on the left with its antonym on the right.
1. Debt a. Happiness

2. Destitution b. Wealth

3. Drought c. Excess

4. Insufficiency d. Monsoon

5. Misery e. Demand

6. Poverty f. Feast

7. Scarcity g. Plenty

8. Starvation h. Affluence

9. Supply i. Sufficiency

10. Want j. Abundance

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 ACTIVITY C (page 124) Article “What is Poverty? What causes poverty?”
Match the following words with their respective synonyms:
1. afflict a. divergent, unequal

2. ample b. diminish, belittle, dismiss, discount

3. disproportionat c. harsh, rigorous, severe

4. marginalize d. besiege, persecute, torment, torture

5. vicious e. abundant, bounteous, generous, liberal,

plenteous, plentiful

ACTIVITY D (page 128) The Zero Hunger Challenge

Provide the missing word.
1. ----------------------- a short statement expressing a general truth.
Synonyms: saying · maxim · axiom
2. ----------------------- to give (someone) the authority to do something.
Synonyms: entitle · permit · allow
3. ----------------------- to be able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Synonyms: valid · feasible · viable

ACTIVITY E (page 130) – “The Brandt Report”

Include ten of the words provided on this worksheet to write a summary of no more
than 150 words on “The Brandt Report”.
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ACTIVITY F (page 135) - Euphemisms

Use a thesaurus to find one or more euphemisms for each of the words provided below.
1. bankrupt _________________________________________________________________________________

2. disease ____________________________________________________________________________________

3. homeless__________________________________________________________________________________

4. famine_____________________________________________________________________________________

5. hungry_____________________________________________________________________________________

6. illiterate___________________________________________________________________________________

7. lazy_________________________________________________________________________________________

8. poverty____________________________________________________________________________________

9. unemployed_______________________________________________________________________________

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Now provide a sentence for these euphemisms to show their usage.
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2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

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