Listening activity for all levels!! (Answers included)

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Watch the video, read these sentences taken from it and try to fill in the gaps with the information provided. It is like a dictation!!! Hope you find it interesting!

1-People _______________ (verb in the passive) from leaving their homes with just a few exceptions like _________________, ____________________ or ________________________. (activities people normally do)

2.-After a seven hour cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister ___________________. (phrasal verb)

3.-This state of emergency that ________________(verb in the passive)  on ______________________(day and part of the day) but now is actually in force. 

4.-It'_______________________(verb in the passive) in the official state bulletin. 

5.-He _________________________(verb in the present perfect continuous) and officials ____________________________ (verb in the present perfect continuous) to keep people apart from each other, a _______________________(adjective +modifier) thing in this Mediterranean country where people like to be around each other all the time. 

6.-But that's how the virus _______________________(verb in the present simple). 

7.-This could overwhelm the hospitals if the rates ________________________(phrasal verb). 

8.-__________________________(expression of time used in the past) it wasn't like that. 

9.-You can go food shopping, but you ______________________(synonym of must) go by yourself ___________________________(if not) you're an elderly person ________________________ (relative pronoun for people)  needs help. 

10.-you ____________________(modal verb for permission) go to the pharmacy under the same conditions, you can drive ______________________(most common linker in conditional sentences) you're going to work, to shop for food, you can fill up gas, but no leisure drive. 

ASNWERS

1-People are banned from leaving their homes with just a few exceptions like going to work, buying food or going to the hospital.

2.-After a seven hour cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister came out.

3.-This state of emergency that was announced on Friday night but now is actually in force. 

4.-It's published in the official state bulletin. 

5.-He has been trying and officials have been trying to keep people apart from each other, a very difficult thing in this Mediterranean country where people like to be around each other all the time. 

6.-But that's how the virus spreads. 

7.-This could overwhelm the hospitals if the rates go up. 

8.-A week ago it wasn't like that. 

9.-You can go food shopping, but you have to go by yourself unless you're an elderly person who needs help. 

10.-you can go to the pharmacy under the same conditions, you can drive if you're going to work, to shop for food, you can fill up gas, but no leisure drive.