Turkey shoots down a Russian plane – level 1

26-11-2015 07:00

Russia fights the Islamic State. They fight in Syria. Syria borders with Turkey.

A Russian plane flies close to the border. Turkey shoots the plane down.

This is a problem. Russia is not happy about this. People are investigating the incident.

Difficult words: border verb (to touch; to be close to), border noun (a line where two countries touch), investigate (to try to get more information and to understand), incident (a situation when something bad happens).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

What do you think about this incident between Turkey and Russia?

LEARN 3000 WORDS with NEWS IN LEVELS

News in Levels is designed to teach you 3000 words in English. Please follow the instructions
below.

How to improve your English with News in Levels: 

Test

  1. Do the test at Test Languages.
  2. Go to your level. Go to Level 1 if you know 1-1000 words. Go to Level 2 if you know 1000-2000 words. Go to Level 3 if you know 2000-3000 words.

Reading

  1. Read two news articles every day.
  2. Read the news articles from the day before and check if you remember all new words.

Listening

  1. Listen to the news from today and read the text at the same time.
  2. Listen to the news from today without reading the text.

Writing

  1. Answer the question under today’s news and write the answer in the comments.

Speaking

  1. Choose one person from the Skype section.
  2. Talk with this person. You can answer questions from Speak in Levels.

 

Stock images by Depositphotos