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    TheGuardianWeekly 9°" "343! Solutions for English Teachin Hollywood caught in gem warfare Level 2 ¢ Intermediate Qrkey words Fill the gaps using these key words from the text. profitable mercenary inspire evict __trivialise vital eliminate conflict jeweller pariah 4. Itsomething is itis very important, necessary or essential 2. ttyou someone, you force them to leave their home or their land 3. you something, you get rid oft because it's not wanted, 4A is fighting between two countries or groups. 5A is solder who fights for any army that wll pay him. 6. tan activty is It produces a lt of money. 7. you someone, you give them the enthusiasm to do something. 8. A____Is someone who makes, sells or repairs jvveliry oA stata is @ county that othor countrios aisike and avoid 10.ttyou something, you make It seem less important or serious than it really is. @ Find the information Look in the text and find this information as quickly as possible. Who star inthe film Blood Diamond? How many people died in the cvl war in Sierra Leone? How much is De Beers planning to spend on publicity? What percentage of jobs in Botswana are linked to diamonds? Wat isthe biggest employer in Namibia? \What vias the diamond market in Britain worth last year? Hollywood caught in gem warfare Jeevan Vasagar on @ DiCaprio film that threatens to take the shine off Africa's diamond trade ‘The diamond industry has begun an advertising campaign to protect its highly profitable business from the negative publicity that might result from a Hollywoad fim about the trade in rican “conflict diamonds” De Beers, the world's biggest ciamond company, plans to spend $ 15m on puiblity, before the film Blood Diamond is released in December. The film could make diamonds as unfashionable as fu. In the fim Leonardo DiCaprio plays @ South Aftican mercenary trying to find a rare pink Glamond in rebel-heldteritory in Sierra Leone, a west Atican country where the civil war was firanced by dlamond ‘smuggling, and led to 75,000 deaths. In real life DiCaprio has become a symbol for people who believe that the diamond industry Is destroying lives. The fim has inspired a band of Kalahari Bushmen to advertise in the Holywood magazine Variety attacking the diamond business. The Bushmen, who say they have been evicted from ancestral lands in Botswana to make way for diamond mining, asked DiCaprio for his support. one enalish TheGuardianWeekly Hollywood caught in gem warfare Level 2 © Intermediate Ian open letter to the star they sald: “After diamonds were found on our land we were evicted... Those diamonds are a curse for us. We hope you will use your film to let people know that we too are vitims of

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