news bulletin – answers

Cardboard city slum

questions

1. Where are these homes located? inside an abandoned industrial complex
2. What are they getting respite from? the wind and rain
3. What are the conditions like? very poor
4. How are they being treated by their employers? they are being exploited
5. How much are they paid? meagre wages
6. How long has the speaker wanted to come to Italy? since he was a child
7. What made him decide to come? war (when war broke out in his country)
8. What is this ‘city’ called? cardboard city
9. What sort of work do these Africa workers seek? fruit picking
10. Where in Italy is this region? on the southern toe (Italy is shaped like a boot)