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Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
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- Gagandeep Kang is a leading expert in medicine.
- She studies sicknesses that make children ill.
- She helped make a vaccine in India.
- She helped start systems to watch illnesses.
- Long ago many babies died in India.
- Now far fewer babies die in their first year.
- Kang says viruses still make many children sick.
- She says vaccines are needed to stop infections.
- India now watches diseases better and learns more.
- She works at a global health foundation now.
Difficult words
- expert — a person with a lot of knowledge
- vaccine — a medicine to stop a disease
- sickness — a state when someone is not healthysicknesses
- system — a group of parts that work togethersystems
- virus — a very small germ that makes people sickviruses
- infection — when a germ enters and harms the bodyinfections
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever had a vaccine?
- Do you think vaccines are needed to stop infections?
- Do you know a child who was sick recently?
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