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English Practice: Liz Truss

Watch the video then do this quiz at the B1-B2 level.

Headlines Quiz

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How six weeks go so horribly wrong?

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Liz Truss’ fall from power accelerated after she introduced ‘Trussanomics’ a plan for tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest Britons so they could create jobs, she said.

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Essentially, trickle-down economics. This proposal immediately the British economy to implode.

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Just the mere suggestion of this plan sent financial markets into a tailspin, drove the country’s to a record low value against the American dollar

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and pushed mortgage even higher, and this is on top of an already pre-existing deepening cost-of-living crisis in the U.K.

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leaving average citizens struggling to afford basic day-to-day .

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Liz Truss to staunch the bleeding;

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sacrificial lambs were .

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Ultimately, she apologized and tried to reverse course but by then it was too .

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The economy did not keep calm and .

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That’s quite a lot of damage in a pretty amount of time.

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Ultimately this turmoil was too much, even for her own Conservative Party and Liz Truss was shown the at number 10 Downing.

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13. 
How much can you remember?

True or False? Liz Truss was the Prime Minister for one month.

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"Trickle-down Economics" is the theory that wealth (money):

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The U.K. is experiencing:

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Which phrasal verb means "to continue doing what you are doing"?

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"Liz Truss was shown the door..." means:

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