Alvy,6F

Comprehension

1. A record - USA, Saudi Arabia. Coronavirus - India, Canada. Helping animals - Gabon, New Zealand

2. A sporty teenager - USA. A taxi driver - New Zealand. An artist - India. A business - Saudi Arabia. Tourists - Gabon. People living in a community - Canada.

3a. It's easy for the gorillas to catch human diseases because 'the two species are so closely related'.

3b. It would be such bad news if the virus spread to other great apes because the apes would be much harder to separate than humans.

4a. Scaremongering: to create panic or fear.

Camaraderie: trust.

Caremongering: a new trend being spread worldwide and is the opposite of scaremongering.

4b. The new word was needed for social media groups.

5. 1: Hutton's shearwater birds raise their chicks in the mountains.

2: When the chicks are grown, they leave their nests and head for the sea.

3: Some chicks mistake shiny roads for water and crash into the ground.

4: Each night Toni Painting rescues the chicks and puts them in her taxi.

5: She drives the birds to a rescue centre, where they are nursed back to health and released.

6. The message being given in the sand sculpture is that the health service is putting in extra effort to save lives and in return, ask only for all the citizens to stay isolated to bring the virus to a halt.

7. The Maraya Concert Hall is 26 metres tall and can seat 500 people. It's covered by a total of 9740 metres squared of mirrors.

8. I would use impressive and inspiring to describe the teenager's new record.

9. Zaila Avant-Grant: achieved a record. Yes.

Christian Tchemambela: park official in Gabon. Yes.

Toni Painting: rescues chicks. No.

Valentina Harper: social media group tackling coronavirus. Yes.

10.I choose the story of the basketball record as it shows you can still make big achievements even in isolation. I find this story cheering.