The Girl That Changed the World - Unit 3

B2 First · Word Formation · Ready for B2 First 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education Limited

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

MOVE

KNOW

POLITICS

APPEAR

REACT

PERMIT

EXTREME

CHILD

In 2019, at just 16 years of age, Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s (0) ___ ‘Person of the Year’. It said she had managed to make her wish for a cleaner, greener planet a worldwide (1) ___ . So how did this environmental activist from Sweden come to be (2) ___ ? Her protest started in August 2018, when she decided to calmly sit outside the Swedish parliament building holding a sign which read ‘School Strike For Climate’ in an attempt to make (3) ___ notice her and take action against climate change. The (4) ___ of Greta alone outside the building soon got the media’s attention. The (5) ___ of students all over the world was one of support and many had (6) ___ from their parents to skip school to protest peacefully for change like Greta. Whether you agree or disagree with Greta, she has been (7) ___ successful in her aim, achieving more in her (8) ___ than most of us can dream of achieving in our lifetimes.

The Girl That Changed the World

YOUNG

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