1) the Roman Empire ...

2) The Black Death spread rapidly in Asia and Europe because...

3) SARS spread from Hong Kong to Canada, Vietnam and Singpore because...

4) Many doctors and nurses became ill with SARS because ...

Ask them to do first ,then ask them to form groups of three or four and take turns to read out their sentences to the rest of the group and see if any of the sentences are the same.

Have one or two students read out their sentences for each item for the class to hear.

Check the answers with whole class.

Step 4,Post -reading

1 Match the words from the passage 1-10with their meanings a-j

1,trail a)complete

2 prohibit b)data

3 pause c)delay

4 tendency d)habit

5 acute e)media

6 statistics f)pill

7 routine g)prevent

8 press h) sever