LISTENING SKILL (mod.8/unit5)

UNIT 5: HOMELESSNESS
Listen to the following report on the Street Sense newspaper for the homeless. Read through sentences 1 – 9 and fill in the gaps exactly with the missing words. You will only need to use one word in each sentence.



STREET SENSE PROVIDES FOR THE HOMELESS

1. Laura Thomson organizes her team of (1) __________ before sunrise.
2. Laura and her friend Ted started the newspaper in Washington in (2) __________ .
3. Street Sense has become the main source of income for over (3) __________ people in the Washington area.
4. The vendor buys the paper for (4) __________ cents and sells it for one dollar.
5. They can also earn newspapers by (5) __________ stacks of newspapers at the office.
6. Most of the work is done by (6) __________ .
7. ‘The best part of this job is the (7)__________ that I get to meet’.
8. The newspaper also provides the homeless with a sense of (8) __________ .
9. With the income they get, more than twenty homeless people have found (9) __________ .

1. vendors 2. 2003 3. 200 4. 25 5. unloading
6. volunteers 7. friends 8. community 9. housing