□ Find examples of young people in our country who have done something
exceptional like the boy who stopped a train running on a track with missing
fishplates and speak to your friends about them.
□ Now share the following
introduction with a friend.
It's an adults' world They make the decisions, create the laws, make
the money, and have all of the freedoms. But there have been exceptions. Take
for example, these child visionaries— boys and girls who have changed oar world
through their good actions or examples. Some have mobilized millions for a good
cause; others have moved us simply by their generous and hopeful view of
humanity. Let's read about some of these amazing young people.
2. Read the text and answer the
questions that follow:
Dylan Mahalingam
At the age of nine, Dylan Mahalingam became the co-founder of Lil'
MDGs, a nonprofit international development and youth empowerment organization.
Lil' MDGs' mission is to use the power of the digital media to engage children
in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). His organization
has mobilized more than 3 million children around the globe to raise 780,000 US
dollars for tsunami relief and more than 10 million dollars for hurricane
relief. He has built a dormitory in Tibet, a mobile hospital in India, and a
school playground serving AIDS orphans in Uganda. Dylan is a youth speaker for
the United Nations.
Alexandra 'Alex' Scott
Alexandra 'Alex* Scott was born in Connecticut in 1996, and was
diagnosed with neuro blastula, a type of childhood cancer, shortly before she
turned one. In 2000, just after turning four, she informed her mother that she
wanted to start a lemonade stand to raise money for doctors to help children.
Her first lemonade stands raised 2,000 dollars and led to the creation of the
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Alex continued her lemonade stands
throughout her life, ultimately raising over one million dollars
toward cancer research. She passed away in August 2004 at the age of eight
Today, Alex's Lemonade Stand sponsors a national fundraising weekend in the
United States which is pojwlariy known as Lemonade Days. Each year, as many as
10,000 volunteers at more than 2,000 Alex's Lemonade Stands make a difference
tor child with cancer.
Ryan Hreljac
In 1998, six-year old Ryan Hreljac was shocked to learn that children
in Africa had to walk many kilometers every day just to fetch water. Ryan
decided he needed to build a well for a village in Africa. By doing household
chores and public speaking on clean water issues, Ryan raised enough money with
which his first well was built in 1999 at the Angolo Primary School in a
northern Ugandan village. Ryan's determination led to Ryan's Well Foundation,
which has completed 667 projects in 16 countries, bringing access to clean
water and sanitation to more than 714,000 people.
Katie Stagliano
In 2008, 9-year old Katie Stagliano brought a tiny cabbage seedling
home from school. As she cared for her cabbage, it grew to 40 pounds. Katie
donated her cabbage to a soup kitchen where it helped to feed more than 275
people. Moved by the experience of seeing how many people could benefit from
the donation of fresh produce to soup kitchens, Katie decided to start
vegetable gardens and donate the harvest to help feed people in need. Today,
Katie's Krops donates thousands of pounds of fresh produce from numerous
gardens to organizations that help people in need.
Anne Frank
Anne Frank is perhaps the most well-known victim of the Nazi Holocaust
of World War 1L Anne, bom on 12 June 1929, was given a diary at the age of 15,
in which she chronicled her life from 1942 to 1944. During this time, Anne
spent two years in hiding with her
family in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in a soxet annex with four other
Jews. Betrayed and discovered in 1944, Anne was sent to the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, where she died of typhus in 1945. Anne's father, Otto
Frank, was the only occupant of the sextet annex to survive the war. In 1947,
he published Anne's diary as The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne's account of her
internment, as well as he deep belief in humanity has become one of the world's
most widely read books.
3. Answer the following
questions:
a. What are some examples of the humanitarian services provided by Lil'
MDGi?
b. Why did Alexandra Scott want to start a lemonade stand when she was
only four?
c What compelled Ryan Hreljac to make wells for the people in Africa?
d. How did Katie Stagliano raise money to help people?
e. When was The Diary of a Young Girl published?
4. Discuss the following
questions in pairs:
a. Which of die five children/teen activists inspired you the moat?
Why?
b. Do you think you have to wait to be an adult to help people who are
in need?
c. Do you know any young boy/girl who has given exceptional
humanitarian
services to the people in your society/community/country? How old is
s/he?
d. What could be some possible activities that you can start right now
to help poor
or sick people in your area?
5. Find the meaning of the
following words ud make sentences with them:
a. empowerment
b. mobilize
c fundraising
d. betray
e. grace
f. holocaust
6. Find 5 adjectives in the
text and make sentences with them.
7. Match the words/phrases in
column A with their meanings in column B in the table below:
column A
column B
by removing waste, trash and
garbage
lemonade (noun)
to describe a scries of
events in the order that they happened
determination (noun)
agricultural products,
especially fresh fruits and vegetables
sanitation (noun)
imprisonment
of large groups without any legal process
fresh produce (noun phrase)
to use (a quality or
advantage) to obtain a desired effect or result
chronicle (verb)
something that serves as
tangible proof or evidence
concentration camp (noun
phrase)
a quality that makes you
continue trying to do or achieve something that is difficult
internment (noun)
a drink made oflemon juice,
water, and sugar
testament (noun)
a type of prison where targe
numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and arc usually
forced to live in harsh conditions
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Unit Six: Path to Higher Education
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