What happened in 2020 so far?

What happened in 2020 so far?
Step 1 : Mix & Match. Match the picture with the news that describes it.
In Kenya, on May
21, the most
important
invasion of desert
locusts happened
in over 70 years.
On January 26, NBA
legend Kobe Bryant
and his daughter
were killed with 7
other people in a
helicopter crash in
California.
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January 31
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with the US flag
of
the burning city
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ap
Minne
May 28 after the
death of George
Floyd.
On February 12, a
dehydrated Koala
receives treatment
after its rescue from
a bushfire that has
ravaged over 2,000
hectares in Australia.
On August 4, a
explosion in the seaport
of Beirut, Lebanon,
caused at least 190
deaths, 6,500 injuries
and left an estimated
300,000 people
homeless.
On Augu
st 23, Bay
ern
Munich w
ins the
Champio
ns Leagu
e, a
1-0 victory
over PSG
and their
6th title in
European
soccer’s to
p
club com
petition.
Microsoft has
finally killed
Internet Explorer
on 17 August,
2021.
On, August 6, the U.S.
President Donald
Trump signed an
executive order that
will ban TikTok, unless
the app is sold to a U.S.
buyer by September.
The Pangolin, a re
al
life Pokémon, is
becoming the m
ost
"famous" animal
of
March 2020 and
one
of Google top
searches.
On March 24, the
2020 Summer
Olympics, which were
supposed to take
place in Tokyo, are
postponed until 2021.
the
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Step 2 : Vocabulary Time. Read the nouns in French and find their
translation in English in the document above.
Les Oscars : ____________________________________
L'Union Européenne : __________________________
Drapeau : ______________________________________
Fille : ___________________________________________
Port maritime : _________________________________
Recherche : ____________________________________
Prix (récompense) : ____________________________
Accident : ______________________________________
Sauvetage/rescousse : _________________________
Step 3 : Your turn. For the next time, find something
positive that happened during the past 9 months.