Child marriage in Bangladesh:

vocabulary worksheet
Activity 1 Fill in the missing gaps in column A using the words from columns B and C so that they
form logical expressions/phrases. Note that you will have to use both B & C just 8 times.
The key parts of the phrases have been marked in bold.

EXAMPLE:
A B C
to live on a dole  to live on a dole

A
B C
to be ……………………………………………… harangued by
to drop ……………………………………………….. violence
domestic …………………………………………………. its ordeal of
to be at …………………………………………………. an of fear
to undergo …………………………………………………. rid of school
to provide ………………………………………………… state a wooden box
to get ……………………………………………….. with the public
perpetual ................................................... out heart
burdened ................................................... line operation
poverty .................................................. protection of sth/sb
to get .................................................... determined to
to experience . .................................................... the

Activity 2 Now fill in the gaps in the sentences below using the phrases from Activity 1.
Bear in mind that you will use the expressions in a different context keeping the same meaning.
Therefore, you will not use the whole phrases but rather their main parts.

1. When I go to meetings I get ___________________ by the public about speeding

vehicles and by people asking for speed cameras to be installed.
2. Ants __________________ with loads of leaf fragments march toward their underground
fungal gardens.
3. No one experienced the _____________of those first few years more acutely than his
first wife, Linda.
4. It is the instrument which holds the EU together _________________________ (3 words).
5. Sontag saw the consequence of living in this ___________________ (4 words) as an
unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, our humanity.
6. Around 40 per cent of the country's population live on incomes below the official
_________________ (2 words).