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• ☐ ☐ ☐ a security service [n] - an organization that protects a country from danger
• ☐ ☐ ☐ carry out [phv] - do, complete
• ☐ ☐ ☐ relentless [adj] - continuing without stopping
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a campaign [n] - planned actions to achieve a goal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ interfere [v] - get involved in an unwanted way
• ☐ ☐ ☐ alleged [adj] - said to be true but not proven
• ☐ ☐ ☐ corruption [n] - dishonest or illegal behavior for personal gain
• ☐ ☐ ☐ inadequate [adj] - not good enough, not sufficient
• ☐ ☐ ☐ flood defences [n] - structures that protect areas from flooding
• ☐ ☐ ☐ prosecutors [n] - lawyers who bring criminal cases to court
• ☐ ☐ ☐ file [v] - officially submit
• ☐ ☐ ☐ charges [n] - official accusations of a crime
• ☐ ☐ ☐ accuse [v] - say someone has done something wrong
• ☐ ☐ ☐ complicity [n] - involvement in something illegal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ vaccinators [n] - people who give vaccines
• ☐ ☐ ☐ remote [adj] - far away, hard to travel to
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a herding community [n] - a group of people who move with and care for animals (cows, sheep, etc.)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ (river) banks [n] - the sides of a river
• ☐ ☐ ☐ cervical [adj] - related to the cervix, which is part of a woman's uterus
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an index [n] - a list or scale used to measure or compare things

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

1. China is worried about Britain trying to influence the work of its politicians.
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2. Prosecutors in the Philippines have filed charges linked to poor flood defences.
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3. A French oil company has been accused of involvement in war crimes in Mozambique.
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4. Vaccinators are working to prevent breast cancer among women.
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5. These vaccinators need to travel by camel and boat to reach some communities.
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6. The podcast proposes a spicometer to measure how hot food is.
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Directions: What expressions from the video have the same meaning as the highlighted expressions in the sentences below?

Instrucciones: ¿Qué expresiones del video tienen el mismo significado que las expresiones destacadas en las oraciones siguientes?

Instruções: Quais expressões do vídeo têm o mesmo significado que as expressões destacadas nas frases abaixo?

지시 사항: 아래 문장에서 강조된 표현과 같은 의미를 가진 표현을 영상에서 찾아보세요.

1. Chinese spies are [ doing ] a [ unending ] campaign to influence and [ get involved, meddle ] with their work.

   [ carrying out ] [ relentless ] [ interfere ]

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2. As anger grows in the Philippines about [ claimed ] corruption that led to [ insufficient ] flood defences, prosecutors [ submit ] charges.

   [ alleged ] [ inadequate ] [ file ]

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3. The human rights group accuses of French oil giant Total of [ involvement, participation ] in war crimes in Mozambique.

   [ complicity ]

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4. We've seen vaccinators get onto camels to reach girls that are part of [ isolated ] herding communities.

   [ remote ]

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5. And should there be a spicometer, [ a scale ] grading food's hotness?

   [ an index ]

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Directions: Fill in the missing letters.

Britain's security service w a _ _ _ politicians that Chinese spies are carrying out a relentless c a m _ _ _ _ _ to influence and interfere w _ _ _ their work.

As anger grows in the Philippines about alleged c o r r _ _ _ _ _ _ that led to inadequate flood defences, prosecutors file c h a _ _ _ _ .

The human rights group a c c _ _ _ _ the French oil giant Total of complicity in war c r _ _ _ _ in Mozambique.

We've seen vaccinators get onto camels to reach girls that are p a _ _ of remote herding communities.

We've seen vaccinators get into boats to reach p e o _ _ _ that live on the b a _ _ _ of rivers and don't have roads to reach their v i l _ _ _ _ _ .

The pursuit to p r e _ _ _ _ cervical cancer and save hundreds of thousands of l i _ _ _ .

And should t h _ _ _ be a spicometer, an index g r a _ _ _ _ food's hotness?