Pandemics

Discussion Starters

Int
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

On March 11, 2020, the WHO officially declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) a "pandemic." In this lesson, students read about pandemics and discuss how people and governments can deal with them. This lesson includes grammar practice with suffixes.

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Focus

topic-based
4-skills
health
expressing opinions
research
suffixes
adjectives
interpretive
productive
interactive

Vocabulary

wipe out
immunity
merchant
respiratory
contagious
seasonal
elderly
vaccinate
victim
panic
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