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BBC Learning English 

Words in the News   

23 May 2012 

Brazilians who won't play ball 

Transcript: 

They are the  descendants of the first Brazilians. 

Members of different indigenous groups have been living as squatters on the 

doorstep of the famous Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.   

But they're not looking forward to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The stadium's 

renovation works might put them at risk of eviction .  

The  derelict  building  used to house the first museum dedicated to their culture. 

Vocabulary: 

descendants  

the living relatives of previous generations 

squatters 

people who occupy an area without permission 

renovation works   

repairs done to a building 

eviction  

to be forced to leave a place 

derelict  

abandoned and in bad condition 

Watch the video: Brazilians who won't play ball      

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 

BBC news reports.   

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly. 

descendants / squatters / renovation works / eviction / derelict 

1. Israel's prime minister has asked his defence minister to delay the ______ of 

Jewish settlers who took over a house in the Arab part of Hebron. 

2. _________ had originally occupied the building in 1990 and it later became a 

major housing project. 

3. Painted in mainly red ochre on a wattle and daub panel, it was discovered 

behind 18th century panelling during __________ in the 1960s. 

4. Two doors down is a ___________ building. Shockingly there are still two 

families living in the rubble filled rooms. One is a mother with three little girls. 

The other is a refugee from Azerbaijan's devastating war with Armenia during 

the 1990s. 

5. And you can still see its influence in the mosques and minarets, in the spice 

markets and in the faces of the so-called Swahili people - the Muslim 

__________ of marriages between local  Africans and Arab traders and settlers. 

Answers: 

1. Israel's prime minister has asked his defence minister to delay the  eviction of 

Jewish settlers who took over a house in the Arab part of Hebron. 

Source:  Israeli PM seeks delay of Hebron settler eviction 

2. Squatters  had originally occupied the building in 1990 and it later became a 

major housing project. 

Source:  Berlin eviction prompts clashes at former squat  

3. Painted in mainly red ochre on a wattle and daub panel, it was discovered 

behind 18th century panelling during renovation works  in the 1960s. 

Source:  Shandy Hall in Coxwold was once home to Laurence Sterne                   

4. Two doors down is a  derelict building. Shockingly there are still two families 

living in the rubble filled rooms. One is a mother with three little girls. The other 

is a refugee from Azerbaijan's devastating war with Armenia during the 1990s. 

Source:  Winners and losers in the new Baku 

5. And you can still see its influence in the mosques and minarets, in the spice 

markets and in the faces of the so-called Swahili people - the Muslim 

descendants of marriages between local Africans and Arab traders and settlers. 

Source:  Emerging economies rise to prominence