What happened in 2020 so far?

On January 26, NBA
legend Kobe Bryant
and his daughter
were killed with 7
other people in a
helicopter crash in
California.
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.
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.
A man is running
with the US flag in
the burning city of
Minneapolis on
May 28 after the
death ofGeorge
Floyd.
On August 23, Bayern
Munich wins the
Champions League, a
1-0 victory over PSG
and their 6th title in
European soccer’s top
club competition.
Microsoft has
finally killed
Internet Explorer
on 17 August,
2021.
On February 12, a
dehydrated Koala
receives treatment
after its rescue from
a bushfire that has
ravaged over 2,000
hectares in Australia.
The Pangolin, a real
life Pokémon, is
becoming the most
"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.
On February 9, the
South Korean film
“Parasite” won best
picture at the 92nd
Academy Awards,
becoming the first ever
non-English-language
film to win this prize
A man in London
waves a giant flag on
January 31 after
Britain became the
first country to ever
leave the European
Union.
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.

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.
Step 2 : Vocabulary Time. Read the nouns in French and find their
translation in English in the document above.