🌍 Vocabulary: Social Problems & Possible Solutions
1ère Bac Sciences Expérimentales SEx
📌 Introduction
Understanding social problems and their solutions is essential for writing, speaking, and citizenship. You’ll use this vocabulary in exams and real-life discussions.
Example: “Poverty is a serious social problem. Education and job training are possible solutions.”
📚 Key Vocabulary
Social Problems: poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, crime, pollution, drug addiction, homelessness, inequality
Solutions: education, job training, recycling, rehabilitation, housing projects, awareness campaigns, government support
Science Link: “Pollution affects health and the environment. Recycling and clean energy can help solve it.”
✅ Exercise 1: Match the Problem
1. No job →
2. No money, no food →
3. Cannot read or write →
4. Breaking the law →
5. No home to live in →
✅ Exercise 2: Match the Solution
1. Education →
2. Job training →
3. Recycling →
4. Housing projects →
5. Awareness campaigns →
✅ Exercise 3: True or False?
1. Education helps reduce illiteracy.
2. Pollution is good for health.
3. Job training can reduce unemployment.
4. Drug addiction is a social problem.
5. Homelessness means having a house.
✅ Exercise 4: Complete the Sentence
1. Many people suffer from ___ because they have no money.
2. ___ is a major problem in big cities.
3. One solution to unemployment is job ___.
4. We should recycle to reduce ___.
5. ___ campaigns help people understand social problems.
✅ Exercise 5: Fill in the Blank
1. ___ is the lack of knowledge and reading skills.
2. Many young people become victims of drug ___.
3. ___ means not having enough money for basic needs.
4. ___ projects provide homes for the homeless.
5. ___ helps people get jobs and improve their lives.
✅ Exercise 6: Match Problem & Solution
1. Poverty →
2. Illiteracy →
3. Pollution →
4. Drug addiction →
5. Homelessness →
✅ Exercise 7: Correct the Mistake
1. Poverty means having a lot of money. →
2. Illiteracy helps people read. →
3. Pollution is good for the environment. →
4. Homelessness means living in a big house. →
5. Unemployment means having a good job. →
✅ Exercise 8: Real-Life Situation
1. Your city has too much trash. What solution?
2. Many children can’t read. What should we do?
3. Many people have no jobs. →
4. Drug use is increasing. →
5. Many families live on the street. →
✅ Exercise 9: Science & Society
1. How can science help reduce pollution?
2. How can education reduce poverty?
3. How can technology help illiteracy?
4. How can medicine help drug addiction?
5. How can engineering help homelessness?
✅ Exercise 10: Write a Sentence
Use these words in correct sentences:
1. poverty:
2. solution:
3. pollution:
4. unemployment:
5. awareness:
