World News for Students of English

03-09-2018 07:00

Venezuela is experiencing its worst-ever economic down turn, and the city of Maracaibo has had no electricity for months.

One housewife said that there were about 16–18 hours without electricity a day during the week. Without electricity, people cannot keep their food cool in a fridge, and some shoppers buy spoiled meat.

One man at a market said that the meat was not good but he bought it anyway. He did not know what to do about the situation, so he left it to God. He said that the meat smelled bad, but he planned to wash it with a little vinegar and lemon.

Difficult words: experience (when you experience something, something happens to you), economic down turn (when the economy is bad – people have less money and do less business), spoiled (bad).

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