Extreme Poverty

Question 1

DESTITUTE

Answer 1

Everywhere in the city you see DESTITUTE people living in shop doorways

[ without money, food, home or possessions; noun = destitution]

Question 2

To eke out a living

Answer 2

She eked out a living as a washerwoman ( keep one’s head above water)

: faire sortir sa tête de l’eau. Essayer de survivre

Question 3

To live from day to day

Answer 3

The beggar eked out a living and lived from day to day till the end of his life

• d’un jour à l’autre

Question 4

To struggle for survival

Answer 4

In an extreme poverty, more than three by quarter of the capital’s population struggles for survival

Question 5

To be forced to make a livelihood

Answer 5

Trapped in a deep an vicious poverty circle, the destitute people’s children are forced to make a livelihood ( INCOME)

Question 6

To be skinny

Answer 6

To be skeleton-like

Question 7

To be starve to death

Answer 7

Malnourished
Mourir de faim

Face to the political crisis of the country, the citizens starve to death and lead to insecurity’s

Question 8

Homeless

Answer 8

The company’s closing leads huge numbers of workers to be fired from their rented house: they’re now homeless and live on the street