Authentic Listening 2 [PDF]

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AUTHENTIC LISTENING 2 PART 1: Listen to a report on Vaccine for Covid-19 and supply the blanks with the missing information. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER taken from the recording for each answer in the spaces provided.

Why is the UK the first to approve the vaccine? Yeah well Russia and China have approved a vaccine of their own but the UK is the first to approve the Pfizer and Bayern Tech vaccine. And it's down to the speed of the UK’s regulator the MHRA which started its work in January has been working around the clock since then (1) ____________________________________ through thousands of pages of data trying to see if the jab meets the (2) ____________________________________ and safety standards. Now the EMA, the body which regulates the vaccine for the EU has questioned the speed that this has happened but the head of the MHRA said this morning that no corners have been cut. Why are those who are classified extremely vulnerable and over 65 so low on the list? The vaccine priority list which has been (3) ____________________________________ by the joint committee on (4) ____________________________________. And they see age as the biggest risk factor so what they want is the older age groups to be right at the front of the (5) ____________________________________ when it comes to getting the vaccine. Due to (6) ____________________________________, however, the vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 degrees. It's likely the very first people to actually get the vaccine will be those in hospital, patients, workers care home staff. If you've had covered 19 already will you be getting the vaccine? The reason is we don't yet know if the vaccine stops you catching and spreading the virus or does it just stop you from getting ill so more work needs to be done on that. And this morning the health secretary Matt Hancock who previously had Covid said he would be signing up for the vaccine when it was his turn. Is the vaccine going to be compulsory and what are the potential side effects? It's a really good question. No vaccines in the UK are compulsory and it's the same for Covid19. The reason being experts say making it compulsory can really damage confidence but the Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging people to take up the vaccine particularly those in the most (7) ____________________________________. As for side effects data from the Pfizer trials say they're mostly very (8) ____________________________________. No medication is a hundred percent (9) ____________________________________. If millions are (10) ____________________________________ we're going to see potential side effects appearing. But the hope is that they're going to be monitored very closely and patients will report any problems they have along the way.

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