TED Talk
The video for this class is a TED Talk that Bill Gates gave in 2015 warning of a lack of preparedness for a future global pandemic. To highlight this risk, he referred to the Ebola epidemic that affected several countries in West Africa and gave some recommendations so that the world could be equipped to deal with a global outbreak.
While you watch the video, answer the following questions:
Multiple choice
1. What disaster were people most worried about when Bill Gates was a child?
a) pandemic b) the ozone layer c) nuclear war
2. What did the barrel in Bill Gates’ basement contain?
a) nuclear waste b) survival supplies c) microchips
3. Medicine Sans Frontiers did a good job of what?
a) paper case reports b) stopping the spread of Ebola c) organising volunteers
4. How many workers would be required in a large epidemic?
a) hundreds b) thousands c) hundreds of thousands
Sentence completion
5. The World Health Organisation’s main responsibility is to
6. The spread of Ebola was prevented by the
7. By the time someone is contagious with Ebola, they are so
of bed to spread the virus.
8. With some viruses, people feel well enough to get on a
spreading the disease around the world.
Short answer
9. What shows where people are, and where they are moving?
10. What are needed in poor countries to prepare against pandemics? 11. A medical reserve corps should be paired with what?
12. What should be played instead of wars games?
epidemics. work of healthcare worker.
they cannot get out while they are infections,
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