Номер 5, страница 70 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Комарова, Ларионова

Unit seven. Unit grammar check. Exercise five.

According to UNESCO, four out of ten Sub-Saharan Africans cannot read or write.

That is a total of a hundred and thirty-six million people.

If people could read, their lives would be a lot easier.

If people read the labels on their medicine bottles, they wouldn't take the wrong number of pills.

If farmers understood their legal documents, they would get more money for their products.

If women learned how to read, they would teach their children too.

One problem with teaching people to read is language.

Africans often speak several languages, and most people can definitely speak at least two.

There are thousands of local languages, as well as each country's official language.

So which language should people learn to read and write?

One thing everybody agrees on is that things definitely can't go on like this.

We have to do something.