Read the following text carefully

1. Charity is not a modern idea. In 3500 BC King Hammurabai of Babylon encouraged

his people to share their wealth with their poorest neighbours. For thousands of years,
the worlds main religions have encouraged us to do the same. But many of todays
most well-known international charities started much smaller: with just one ordinary
person and one local problem. For example, Oxfam was started by Canon Milford
in1942 to help the hungry and poor people in Greece. Today thousands of Oxfam
workers are helping people in more than 100 countries worldwide.
2. Charities know that people get tired of hearing the same message. Over the years
they have found new and interesting ways to get the money they need. In the 1970s
more and more people had televisions, so charities made films of suffering children and
brought the worlds problems straight into peoples homes. The 1980s was a time of big
business, so charities became more business-like: they made money by making and
selling everything from Christmas cards to summer holidays!
3. In the 1990s, famous people like Claudia Schiffer and Michael Jordan made
millions of dollars for big international companies like Citron and Nike. So charities
started using famous people too. During the 1990s ,the famous singer, Sting planned
music events for the Rainforest Foundation. With help from other singers, such as Ricky
Martin and Elton John, he earned more than $10 million to help protect the lives of
people living in rainforests.
4.Today, charities are using the personal touch to earn money. People give more
when they can see their money working in one local area, and when they have a
personal relationship with the charity. Some people never give to charities. They say
that their money cannot mend these world-wide problems. This is true, but most people
know that a little help is better than none. Look more closely at charity work and you
will see that individual people really do make a difference.
1.Say if the following sentences are True or False
a. Many of todays big charities started with just one person .
b. Charities are always using new ways to get more money.
c. Our individual help isnt very important to solve world-wide problems
2. Answer the following questions on the text.
a. What do the world religions ask us to do? ..
..
b.

Why

are

charities

always

trying

something

different?...............................

.
.
3.What or who do the underlined words in the text refer to?
a. they 2=

b. he 3 =

they4 =

c. Find in the text the words that mean the same as:

a. directly 2=

b. repair 4=

5. Ask the questions that the underlined words answer.

a. King Hammurabai of Babylon encouraged his people to share their wealth.
.
b. they made money by making and selling everything.

6. Rewrite the second sentence so that it means the same as

the one given to you.
1.a I am a member in a charity association, she said.
1.b She said that..
2.a they have found interesting ways to get money, they said.
2.b They said that
.
7. Turn the following questions into indirect ones.
1.a did Sting plan music events? the teacher asked the pupils.
1.b The teacher asked the pupils
.
2.a Are they helping the poor people? I said.
2.b I
wondered
8.Fill in the gaps with four of the following words.
a. type
b. health
c .voluntary
d. help
e. list
My name is Fred Allenton, and Ive been doing ............work
for three years now. I have a .. of people who need help,
with their names, ages, addresses, telephone numbers and the
of help they need. I often phone them and ask about
their .... if they need me, Im willing to rescue any of them
at any time of the day or the night