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ABOUT THE LESSON 📚
The Covid-19 virus has spread around the world. Many of you are reading articles about the pandemic or listening to news reports in English. So I want to teach you some vocabulary that you may come across when you hear information about this global pandemic.

Links from the Lesson
Coronavirus: Glossary of Terms (TIME): https://time.com/5798684/coronavirus-...
What does furlough mean? (USA Today): https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/he...
Coronavirus: What are the symptoms? (CNBC): https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/coron...
Coronavirus Quarantine: A look at empty streets (Conde Nest): https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/co...

Pandemic Vocabulary Words from the Lesson
Outbreak – a sudden start to a disease

Epidemic – when the outbreak starts to spread beyond its origin

Pandemic – when the epidemic become worldwide

WHO – World Health Organization

CDC – Center for Disease Control

Quarantine (verb) – isolate a person so that a disease does not spread

Self-quarantine – when a person decides to isolate themselves

Symptom (noun) – indication that a person has a disease

Symptomatic (adjective) – describes a person showing symptoms

Asymptomatic (adjective) – not showing symptoms

Spread (verb) – used to say the virus is passing from one person to the next

Epicenter / Hot spot – the place that has the highest level

Contact tracing – if a person has the virus, it’s identifying who they have come in contact with

Flattening the curve – decreasing the amount of cases so that each day there are fewer and fewer

Vaccine – substance used to help the body fight off a disease

Lay (someone) off – to fire or let this person go from their job (unemployed)
Furlough – temporary leave without pay but they will return to their job in the future

Ventilators – machine used to help people breathe

Respirator – mask used to help clean the air

Tip of the iceberg (idiom) – you only see a small amount when there is much more (information) to understand

Hand sanitizer – used to disinfect and clean hands

Respiratory – refers to breathing and the lungs

Amid (preposition) – surrounded by (Amid the pandemic….)

Bumper-to-bumper traffic – heavy traffic jam

Teem with – a lot of something (The mall is teeming with people.)

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