Activity 1

a. Read this information, use a dictionary to learn new vocabulary.

b. Respond to the question according to the information you read. (5 lines minimum)

What unique challenges do people without access to the internet face during a pandemic?

People without Internet face the challenge of not having updated information on the situation in their
country and not being able to carry out their national assignments or jobs in which they require the
Internet to send them and make them. Also the need to have Internet access is important for ordering
food and supplies for home deliveries. It is certainly an important tool.

Activity 2

Make a concept map with the most important ideas from this information.
The New “Essential” Worker

Son
Sustaining
access to
food Keeping
Maintaining order
Providing health care infrastructures
and running
medicine
Hospital and Police Utilities and
Grocery telecommunicatio
laboratory officers
store ns staffers
personnel
clerks
911 call center
workers natural
social workers gas/propane
cooks for
take-out workers
firefighters
technicians restaurants
electricians,
paramedics
researchers delivery
drivers
postal and
pharmacists shipping
food workers,
processing
caregivers workers , air
transportation
Activity 3:

a. Give the meaning in Spanish of the vocabulary.

b. Wrtite one sentence with the vocabulary words:

❑ Vulnerable populations:poblaciones vulnerables.

Sentence:The vulnerable population in our country of Panama are the elderly and children under 5 years
of age.

❑ Elderlyn:ancianos.

Sentence:The elderly have greater problems surviving COVID-19 due to chronic and serious illnesses.

❑ Risks:riesgos.

Sentence:The greatest risk in our country is the collapse of the health system.

❑ Low-income:bajos ingresos.

Sentence:

The low incomes of the lower middle class of our country are not enough to survive

❑ Incarcerated people:personas encarceladas.

Sentence:In our country, Panama, incarcerated people do not have the necessary hygiene or the
necessary supplies.

❑ Retail workers:trabajadores minoristas.

Sentence:Retail workers take to the streets despite quarantine because the bonus is not enough.

❑ Workers in service industries:trabajadores en industrias de servicio.

Sentence:Workers in service industries do what they can to prevent the pandemic from hitting them as
much.