English Listening B2 Episode 13 -
Fill in the Blanks Exercise
Interviewer: Now, talking about global issues . The numbers involved can be so huge that it's often what they mean. So, to help me explore a topic , I'd like to start by into a simpler context.
Now, imagine that instead of over seven and a half billion people, the population of the world a village of one hundred. In this context, each villager seventy-five million people. So, , fifty-nine of the villagers would be from Asia, sixteen from Africa, ten from Europe, nine from South and Central America and the Caribbean, five from Canada and the USA, and just one from Oceania, , New Zealand and the Pacific islands.
Ten of our villagers would two dollars per day. Only seven would education, and fourteen to read. housing, twenty-two of them wouldn't have permanent shelter, while twelve wouldn't have . In this village, fifteen would live without electricity and about forty without internet. Sixty-two would and sixteen would own a car.
Fourteen would speak Mandarin , eight would speak Hindi, seven would speak English, six would speak Arabic, five would speak Spanish, and one of over 7,000 other languages. Of these, over 3,000 are endangered and I'd like to about today.
