Reading Skills

Unit 4C: The shoe giver

What is social entrepreneurship?

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Think about a time when you received
an unexpected act of kindness or
witnessed someone being selfless.
Social entrepreneurship is the art of creating a socially
responsible business that aims to generate profit
while solving social and environmental problems.
a. An organisation which collects food near its
sell-by date from supermarkets and distributes
it free to homeless people.

b. An organisation which sells gardening services

to companies. The people it employs are
all long-term unemployed people who get
training, work experience and a small salary.

c. An organisation that collects old clothes that

people are throwing out and recycles the
material to make new clothes which it sells.
Read the article again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Mycoskie's early career was characterised by establishing and then selling companies.

2 Mycoskie immediately saw the Argentinian children's shoe problem as another business
challenge.

3 The main advantage of the one-for-one scheme is that each child is given one pair of
shoes.

4 Podioconiosis is a disease that affects children in developed countries as much as in

developing countries.

5 The author suggests that, in business, energy and enthusiasm are as important as
knowledge.

6 Any business could profit from making a similar one-for-one offer to its customers.
 01 A sheet of paper

Idioms A scrap of paper

partitives 02
 Partitives

In English grammar, a partitive is a word or phrase

(such as "some of" or "a slice of") that indicates a part
or quantity of something as distinct from a whole.
 Look at the partitive expressions in bold and say
which mean 'some' and which 'a small piece or amount

I'm really thirsty. I haven't had a

drop of water all day.

It was a stroke of luck getting those tickets.

They were the last two available The latest figures offer a glimmer of hope
that the recession is coming to an end.

There's not a shred of evidence to suggest

that there is life on other planets.

She had a flash of inspiration. Why not use

the principles of origami to make foldable There was a hint of disappointment in his
furniture? voice, but he took the news very well.
 Speaking
Work in pairs. You are going to act out an
interview between a journalist for an ecology
magazine and Blake Mycoskie. Take turns to
play the roles of interviewer (the journalist) and
interviewee (Blake Mycoskie).

Student A: Student B:
You are the journalist. You are Blake Mycoskie.
Focus on the possible Defend your
problems with the one- business and its philosophy
for-one shoe giving
business and ask
questions that test
Mycoskie to defend it.
Creative Project: Designing a
Community Service Project
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 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Jupiter is a gas giant and the biggest Despite being red, Mars is actually a
planet of them all cold place

Subject Predicate

Venus has a beautiful name, but also Mercury is the closest planet to the
high temperatures Sun and the smallest one
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01 02
Subject Predicate
● Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar ● Venus has a beautiful name, but also a
System poisonous atmosphere

● Jupiter is a gas giant and the biggest ● Saturn is composed mostly of hydrogen
planet of them all and helium

● Neptune is the fourth-largest planet by ● Earth is the third planet from the Sun and
diameter in the Solar System the only one that harbors life
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INFOGRAPHICS
8 parts of speech

Noun Adverb

Verb Venus has a beautiful name and is the Adjective

second planet from the Sun. It’s
terribly hot, even hotter than Mercury,
Preposition and its atmosphere is extremely Conjunction
poisonous

Pronoun Interjection
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INFOGRAPHICS
Sentence
Parts of speech
structure

Punctuation English Adjectives

grammar

Venus has a beautiful

Nouns and
name and is the second
Verbs pronouns planet from the Sun
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INFOGRAPHICS
● Always true
● Permanent situations
Present ● Short actions
● Habits
Present
simple
● Future timetables
Future ● Future in time clauses
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS Future
Present Mercury will still be a
small planet

Past Neptune is the farthest Saturn will have several

planet from the Sun rings in many years
Jupiter was named after a Pluto is now classified as
Roman god a dwarf planet

Earth was once populated

by dinosaurs
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INFOGRAPHICS
A B

Sentence Speech

Venus is the Earth is the Saturn is a gas Despite being

second planet third planet giant and has red, Mars is a
from the Sun from the Sun rings cold place
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INFOGRAPHICS
45% 55%

Mercury Mars
Mercury is the closest planet Mars is of iron oxide dust,
to the Sun and the smallest and that’s what gives the
of them all planet its reddish cast
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INFOGRAPHICS
Jupiter Neptune
Jupiter is the biggest 01 02 Neptune is the farthest
planet of them all planet from the Sun

Parts of speech Mars

03 Despite being red, Mars
is a cold place
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Present perfect simple
Use Structure
● To describe actions or events that
● Formed by using the auxiliary verb
happened at an unspecified time in
"have" (have/has) followed by the
the past, with an emphasis on the
past participle of the main verb
result
● The structure is: [subject] +
● To show that the action has
[have/has] + [past participle of the
relevance or importance in the
verb]. For example: "I have
present, or to discuss experiences
traveled to many countries"
or changes
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Are these statements true or false? True False
Adjectives typically come before the noun they modify

Verbs can be categorized into three tenses: past, present, and future

English nouns do not have plural forms

English uses the subject-verb-object word order in most sentences

 GRAMMAR LESSON
Step 1 INFOGRAPHICS
Step 3 Step 5
Mercury is the closest Venus is the second planet Neptune is the farthest
planet to the Sun from the Sun planet from the Sun

Step 2 Step 4
Jupiter is the biggest planet Saturn is a gas giant and
of them all has several rings
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INFOGRAPHICS
Jupiter is the biggest planet
Verbs of them all
25%

Mercury is the closest planet

Adjectives to the Sun
50%

Neptune is the farthest planet

Nouns from the Sun
80%
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INFOGRAPHICS
Mercury is the closest planet to the
Activity A Sun and the smallest one in the
entire Solar System

Saturn is a gas giant and has

several rings. It’s composed mostly Activity B
of hydrogen and helium

Earth is the third planet from the

Activity C Sun and the only one that harbors
life in the Solar System
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Verb Noun Adjective

Earth is the third planet Despite being red, Mars Jupiter is the biggest
Definition from the Sun is very cold planet of them all

Saturn is a gas giant and Venus is the second Mercury is the closest
Use has rings planet from the Sun planet to the Sun
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Jupiter is a gas giant and the biggest
planet of them all 02

Subject Predicate

01 Mercury is the smallest planet in the

Solar System
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Grammar
Venus is the second
planet from the Sun

Narrative Language
Earth is the third planet Mercury is the smallest
from the Sun planet of them all

Structure
Despite being red, Mars
is cold
 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Syntax Venus is terribly hot

Semantics Mercury is very small

Six aspects of Morphology Mars is a cold planet

grammar Phonology Jupiter is very big

Pragmatics Saturn has rings

Punctuation Neptune is an ice giant

 GRAMMAR LESSON
INFOGRAPHICS
Use Structure Examples
continuous tense
Grammar: past

Actions in progress in She was reading a book

the past when I called

Simultaneous actions Subject + was/were + While he was cooking, she

in the past verb (ing) was watching TV

Background actions in The sun was shining, and

a narrative birds were singing
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INFOGRAPHICS
● To describe actions that will be in progress at a
specific time in the future

● To emphasize the duration or ongoing nature of

Use of future an action that will occur in the future

continuous ● To indicate that something is expected or

planned to happen in the future

● To make polite or formal inquiries about future

plans

Structure of future The structure is: [subject] + [will be] + [present

continuous participle of the verb]
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