Leaders Renew Pandemic-Preparedness Promises
The UN meeting called for sustained investment and cooperation.
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In this lesson: Identify the unfinished agreement section and use “still” for continuing work.
Grammar in this story: Still needed to
Countries still needed to agree on the annex’s details.
“Still needed to” says the task remained necessary at that point. Example: “We had booked the room but still needed to send invitations.”
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Write one sentence about what leaders promised and one about work still to do.
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Leaders promised to prepare for future pandemics. Negotiations on sharing pathogens and research benefits were still continuing.
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