Read the text and answer the following questions:

What ages are vaccinations given for the protection against MMR?

What does MMR stand for?

What percentage of 5 year olds have had the two injections?

Why is it important to have the MMR vaccination?

How many children do the NHS want to have the vaccination?

Who wrote the article?

Work with your partner to do the following exercises.

What do the following words mean:

Vaccination

Injection

Jab

Needle

Infectious disease

Ask and answer the following questions:

Have you ever had an injection or given blood? What did it feel like?

Do you know anyone who is scared of needles? Why do you think they are scared?

What reasons could people have for injecting themselves regularly?

Look at the following paragraphs and with your partner, put them in the correct order.

Read the full article from The Evening Standard and answer the following questions:

How long was the burglar stuck in the window?

Who first noticed the burglar?

What does perpetrator mean?

How old was the burglar?

How was he eventually freed?

Look at the following headlines, what do you think the stories are about?

Queen must be our last monarch

The grass is always greener...

I sentence you to go and play poker

Alien Queen head found in garage

Choose one of the above headlines and create your own news story. It can be as real or as imaginative as you like, but remember to relate the story to the headline.

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