LingVo.club
📖+10 XP
🎧+10 XP
✅+15 XP
Environmental Rules and Roma Lives in Bulgaria (Level A1) — a tree in the middle of a pile of rubble

Environmental Rules and Roma Lives in BulgariaCEFR A1

8 Dec 2025

LevelA1
A2
B1
B2

Adapted from Debra Herrick - UC Santa Barbara, Futurity • CC BY 4.0

Photo by JOGsplash, Unsplash

Level A1 – Beginner
2 min
70 words
  • A researcher studies Roma people who live in Bulgaria towns.
  • She lives and works beside Romani women every day.
  • For work she cleans streets with a team of women.
  • The street cleaning can be dangerous and stressful.
  • Passersby sometimes shout insults and throw cigarette butts.
  • The women also face close supervision at work.
  • They use small acts of friendship and resistance.
  • The book shows how environment rules and racism connect.

Difficult words

  • researcher — person who studies people or topics
  • passerby — person who walks past a place
    Passersby
  • supervision — watching work to check and guide
  • resistance — acts to refuse or oppose control
  • racism — unfair treatment because of race
  • cigarette butt — small part left from a smoked cigarette
    cigarette butts

Tip: hover, focus or tap highlighted words in the article to see quick definitions while you read or listen.

Discussion questions

  • Have you seen street cleaners in your town?
  • Have people ever shouted at you in public?
  • Do you help your friends when they have problems?

Related articles