What is the coronavirus?

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Next task for today is reading.
Please read, write down unknown words and word combinations with translation.
Can you tell me the most popular word nowadays? I think, your answer will be ……

There’s a new word you might have heard.
You might hear people talking about it or you might hear it on the news. This word is the reason that you’re not going to school. It is the reason you can’t go outside very often or visit your friends. It might be the reason why the grown-up or grown-ups who look after you are at home.
C o r o n a v i r u s
The word is
But what
¡s ¡t and why ¡s everyone talk¡ng about ¡t?

There are lots of different sorts of coronaviruses and some of them infect people. If you have been infected with one of these coronaviruses, all you probably had was a snotty nose or a cough.
But when this completely new coronavirus germ gets inside a human body, it causes an illness called COVID-19. When people talk about “catching the coronavirus”, they are talking about this illness.
The coronavirus is a kind of virus.
Viruses are tiny germs that are so small that you can’t see them.
WHAT IS THE CORONAVIRUS?
But what’s a v¡rus?
Could be a coronav¡rus . . .
Bless you!
They are so light that they can float through the air in tiny drops of water, and they can sit on your skin without you feeling them. If some of these germs get inside you, they can use your body to make more germs, and that can make you ill.
Do I have germs on me now?
Yes,
but hardly any of them are dangerous
ACHOO!

Hmm, I wonder ¡f there are germs on th¡s door handle?
Coronavirus germs live in people’s throats and mouths.
When someone who has the coronavirus coughs or sneezes or breathes out, the germs come out of their mouth in tiny drops of water.
It’s easy to get the coronavirus germs from inside your body on your hands when you touch your nose or your mouth.
If the person with the coronavirus germs on their hands uses a door, the invisible germs can live on the handle for hours. When someone else opens the door, they get the germs on their hands too.
And if they touch their nose or mouth, the germs can get into their body.
HOW DO YOU CATCH THE CORONAVIRUS?
Because this coronavirus is new, scientists don’t know everything about it yet. But they think that there are two main ways that people can catch it.
So you can also catch the coronavirus by touching things that someone with the virus has already touched.
Though you can’t see the germs, you can sometimes see these tiny drops. In cold weather, they make a cloud of steam! So
if someone else accidentally breathes in the air with the coronavirus germs in it, they would probably get the illness.
It’s so cold today!
Yes, I can see our breath!
NO!

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