Before you read: alone – risk everything, even their own lives, in search of a better life.

Millions of
Task 1: Look at the pictures and discuss the questions that follow. families are able to escape conflict, persecution and poverty in countries including
Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan. When children and young people feel
that they have no choices, no sense of a future, and where there are no safe and
legal alternatives for migration available to them, displaced children will take
matters into their own hands, facing even greater risks of exploitation at the hands
of people smugglers and traffickers
1- Why did the family in picture 1 flee their home? .
2- What’s happening in picture 2? Task 2: Read the statements and select the right answer according to the text:
3- Who is the man in picture 3? What is he famous for? 1- A refugee is someone who...
4- What does the pigeon in picture 4 represent? a- doesn't want to return to their country.
Task 1: Match the words and phrases in the table with their definitions. b- can't afford to return to their country.
c- is afraid to return to their country.
Word/Phrase Definition
2- The majority of refugees leave their country because...
a. Refugee 1. being treated unfairly or cruelly because of race,
a- they can't find a job in their country.
religion or political beliefs.
b- there is war in their country.
b. armed conflict 2. protection or safety.
c- their family is in another country.
3- Migrant and refugee children face risks of…….
c. asylum 3. a disagreement between people where weapons are
a- being accepted in the host country
used.
b- child labour
d. minority 4. a person who has left their country for political,
c- having a better life
religious or economic reasons or because of a war.
Task 3: Answer the following questions according to the text:
e. . persecution 5. a national or racial group living in a country or area
1- How is a refugee defined?
which contains a larger group of people of a different
2- Why do most refugees flee their country?
race or nationality.
3- How can the journeys the refugees undertake to reach a safe place be?

After reading:
As you read:
establishment –UN -replace- Secretary- cooperation
Task 1: Read the text and check your answers to the questions above.
The United Nations (UN) was founded in 1945 after World War II to ……the
A refugee, defined by the United Nations, is a person who is unable or
unwilling to return to their country because of a well-founded fear of persecution League of Nations. It is an international organization whose stated aims are
based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or because they belong facilitating ………….in international law, international security, economic
to a particular social group. development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The
Most refugees flee their country to escape armed conflict. When possible, philosophy behind its ………is to stop wars between countries, and to provide a
they can leave with their families and apply for asylum in another country. Many platform for dialogue. The members of the …..consist of 193 member states,
of them do not want to leave their own country, but have no choice. The journeys including every internationally recognized sovereign state in the world but Vatican
they undertake to reach a safe place can be extremely risky. They would do
City. The UN is headed by a …….-General.
anything to escape their suffering: crossing deserts, mountains, seas and rivers,
sometimes using dangerous means of transport.
There are an estimated 14 million refugees and asylum seekers in the
world. Refugee and migrant children – some travelling with their families, some

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