News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 448
16th - 22nd January 2015
Headlines : Missing words & muddled meanings
Ten words are missing from this news story. Can you write them back in and match the
word to its definition?
Back to school
............................... of children in the ................................................................................ are going back to school after their
............................... was ............................................... by war.
After two years of fighting between
................................................................ and ..............................., more than half of
the schools in the country were forced to close. Some of the buildings
were damaged or used for other things.
However, many of the schools are now reopening, mainly in the
safer western and southeastern parts of the country. As part of the
Back to School ......................................, 662,000 children are now heading
back into classrooms. Charities are helping to
................................... pencils, exercise books, backpacks and other things
the students need.
..................................’s Madeline Logan says: “School is the only place
where seven-year-old Valerie [pictured] feels safe… it is only in class
that she can remember what life was like before the .................................”
education
Demogratic
Republic of Congo
people who are fighting against the government
the army belonging to a country
thousands
project
Democratic Republic
of Congo
interrupted, stopped
disrupted
government forces
rebels
the abbreviation (short version) of the organisation called the
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
This African country is now seeing its children go back to school after war.
campaign
give, donate, provide
supply
the plural for thousand
UNICEF
terrible and unjust fighting, behaviour that is intended to cause harm
violence
schooling
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