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Bangladesh: a wet country!

l'm in Bangladesh, one of the wettest countries in the world. When it rains heavily, parts of
the country are sometimes under water for five months. Now, because of climate change, the
situation is getting worse. That means it's difficult for children to go to school. However, the young
people of Bangladesh want to study, and climate change won't stop them.

It's 9 a.m. and we're picking up students in a boat on the Ganges River. However, we aren't taking
them to school, because the boat is the schooll This boat is a classroom and part of the Shidhulai
School. All the Shidhulai School boats have solar panels that provide electricity for technology
such as computers. Now, 30 primary school students are studying on the boat. They always study
for three hours a day, six days a week. Later, secondary school students will use the classroom to
study for qualifications that will hopefully help them progress to university to do a degree.
Climate change is very bad for Bangladesh, and the people want it to stop. However, they also
understand that we need to learn to live with it if we want life to continue. The Shidhulai School
boats teach us how we can.

6 Read the grammar box. Find four more state verbs in the blc
1 Work in pairs. Look at the photos and answer the
questions. Dynamic verbs describe aclions, and we can use them
L Where are the students having their lessons? in simple and continuous forms. Slate verbs describe

2 Why do _vou think the students have lo use these slates and situations and we don'l usualty use them in
cIassrooms? continuous tenses. Some common slate verbs are belteve,
belong,forget, hate, have, knotu, like,love, prefer, remember.
2 Read the btog. Which [ines in the blog mention things you
can see in the photos?

3 Check the rules for the present simpte and the

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present continuous on page 128.

4 Find four examptes of the present simple and four 7 ¡reEEIUÍm Complete the tabte with the hightighted
examptes of the present continuous in the btog post. education words from the btog.
5 Complete the text with the present simpte or the present
Adjectives Verbs Nouns
continuous form ofthe verbs in brackets.

BangLadesh
1- (have) very dry periods S Xm Add the words below to the tabte in Ex 7. Listen
and very wet periods. Between June and October, rain
and check.
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3- assignmenl canteen essay faiI
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flver' (rise) and it
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schoots 6 (not open) this morning
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A good and bad thing about your schooI canteen.
because the teachers and the chi[dren can't
get to them. When this happens, most chi[dren usuatly How you revise for exams.
7- (stay) at home and they a:!:@ The school subjects you hope to progress in this year.
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(not study). lt was for this {,ffi The grades you hope to get for each sublect.
reason that Mohammed Rezwan decided to start the t tt, ftere are lots of hea[thu food choices in th¿ cavrt¿en
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