Skillful 3 R&W - Unit 6 - Reading 1 Fighting Cholera

Label the function of each sentence.

A. Describing the effects of cholera
B. Describing the effects of treatment
C. Describing the treatment
D. Explaining the cause of cholera
E. Describing the effects of not treating it
F. Describing cholera today ​

a

b

c

d

e

f

E

D

F

C

A

B

Read the paragraph. Click on the sentence that you think fulfills this function: defining a major situation.

Answer explanation

Defining a major situation.

A major situation - A pandemic is considered a major situation.

Defining - this word means to explain. The sentence explains the pandemic.

Read the paragraph. Click on the sentence that you think fulfills this function: cause of Cholera.

Read the paragraph. Click on the sentence that you think fulfills this function: effects of Cholera.

Answer explanation

effects of Cholera

it attacked people’s bowels and caused very bad diarrhea

This sentence provides an example of what happens to the body.

Read the paragraph. Click on the sentence that you think fulfills this function: effects of the investigation.

Answer explanation

effects of the investigation

With this and other evidence, he was able to persuade the local government to close the Broad Street pump and arguably stop the pandemic.

This sentence shows what effect Snow's investigation had on the local government (closing the pump on Broad street).

Read the paragraph. Click on the sentence that you think fulfills this function: effect of the smelly river Thames.

Answer explanation

While the paragraphs continues to talk about what happened next, the main sentence that introduces the effect of the river Thames is '...a huge sewer system was built beneath London to give people access to clean water.'

Match the paragraphs with the correct headings.

• Early Theories

• Paragraph 4

• Investigation and Discovery

• Paragraph 2

• The Case Against Miasma

• Paragraph 3

• Snow's Legacy

• Paragraph 5

• Historical Cholera Outbreaks

• Paragraph 6