Scrapped French holiday causes chaos

answers to exercise

1. The French have more holiday time / than people in most other countries.
2. French workers are furious / about the disorganised scrapping of a public holiday.
3. The French government decided to capitalise / on the public’s reaction to a series of deaths.
4. In 2003 the Pentecost bank holiday was abolished / for just four years.
5. Some public services were shut as usual / while other workers were forced to go to work.
6. Railway workers kept their day off in return / for working an extra 112 seconds per day.
7. Parents who worked on the Monday faced problems / as many nurseries and schools were shut.
8. In France lorries are banned from roads on public holidays / so goods could not be delivered.
9. The money has been set aside for the funding / of more paid carers for vulnerable people.
10. People do not seem so much angry about losing a day’s public holiday / as at the chaotic way the government has gone about it.