CLASSWORK PG 232-233

1.17 MATCH THE ADJECTIVES BELOW WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING

NOUNS
a) small loans e) nutritious food
b) food vendors f) living standards
c) increasing profits g) basic needs
d) powdered drinks h) juice-making equipment

1.18 IDENTIFY ANY WORDS THAT COULD BE USED TO ANSWER THESE

QUESTIONS. GIVE ONE-WORD ANSWERS
a) capital f) adjacent
b) school fee g) tenants
c) invest h) wholesalers
d) clientele i) wages
e) premise j) exceed

1.19 ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

a) How did Saumu spend the $30 that finca loaned her to help her make money?
She used them to purchase fruit, sugar and other supplies for her juice business.
b) How was the way she spent her loan different from the way you would have
spent yours?
While I thought of investing this loan in a bakery business and start by buying the
ingredients for butter biscuits and cakes, Saumu used her $30 to purchase supplies for
her juice-making business. The difference between our decision was that we both chose
what we do best, in her case making juice and in mine baking biscuits, as well as
starting off by our speciality.
c) How is her context different from yours?
For me this business would seem more like a hobby, whereas for Saumu her business is
what helps her day by day to maintain a reasonable living standard and fulfill, along
with her husband, their family’s basic needs.

1.20 ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS

The article comes from FINCA´s organization website. I think its main purpose is to
inform its readers of FINCA´s services besides telling them one of their many stories of
how this organization can help needed people improve their living standards and even
exceed them.

1.21 ANSWER THE QUESTION

Yes I would, because if I have the possibility to help others who need money more than
I do, I take it. Also I understand that, as being part of a developing country, these
people don’t have the same possibilities other producers do. Finally, if I know this
person will give me my money back I wouldn’t hesitate in making a loan.