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paired stories, first series
10: sweatshop struggles
a: Juan Santos
vocabulary quiz (KEY)
vocabulary quiz: "Juan Santos"
story: "Juan Santos"

ANSWER KEY for the "Juan Santos" vocabulary quiz

attend
budget
cheap
concrete
block
income
interpreter
executive
export
filtering
fraction
leak
outdated
pave
policy
property
spread
strike
sweatshop
tear

5
20
10
1
2
3
6
8
17
15
19
7
9
16
4
14
13
11
18
12
1 hard material made of earth and water, used for building
2 piece of wood or stone with squared corners
3 money that person or business gets as "payment"
4 rule about what to do in a certain kind of situation
5 go to, or be at, an event (a meeting, concert, or party, for example)
6 person who translates speech from one language to another
7 liquid coming out where it's not supposed to
8 person with high-level job in a company or institution
9 not having the latest equipment, not using recent technology
10 always trying to spend as little money as possible; "stingy"
11 workers leave work and refuse to go back until they get what they want
12 what comes out of your eyes when you're crying
13 affect more and more people; cover a wider area
14 what is owned by a person or group
15 removing dangerous, unhealthy things from drinking water
16 cover a road with a hard surface
17 send things to someone in another country for sale there
18 factory where working conditions are very bad
19 one-third, three-quarters (for example); a part
20 plan for spending money