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YOUNG ACTIVISTS
We are what we do (B1)
A - Before you start, talk to a partner.
1. Look at the title of the article and discuss it with your partner. What do you think it means? Do you agree with it?
2. Look at the list of suggestions in the first paragraph. What do you think of them?
3. Make your own list of small things you could do to help a friend or improve the environment. Compare your ideas with those of your partner. Are they similar?
B - Read and answer
Read the main article and answer the questions with a partner.
1. What was David Robinson’s document Reconnecting about?
2. Why was he suited to write about this?
3. What kind of people took part in the project?
4. How did their ideas become famous?
5. How did the book Teach Your Granny How To Text develop?
6. Why do members of WAWWD go and speak in schools?
7. Who does the presentations?
8. What organisation helps to pay for the presentations?
C - Learn it! Use it!
Complete the sentences with the correct form of these verbs from the article.
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1. The Prime Minister came to visit the factory and _________ hands with all the workers.
2. If your train’s delayed, you can __________ me instead of phoning.
3. News of the disaster had _________ rapidly and the town was full of TV reporters.
4. The company is _________ staff for its new offices in Manchester.
5. Our neighbours argue a lot. They’re always _________ and _________ at each other.
6. Most of the street performers at Covent Garden are very good, so large crowds _________ to watch them.
D - Ready for PET? (Paper 1: Writing, Part 1)
Complete the second sentence with 1 to 3 words so that it means the same as the first. (They are constructions used in the article.)
1. Be careful to use both sides of the writing paper.
Make _____________ both sides of the writing paper.
2. Perhaps these don’t seem like things that will change the world.
These _____________ seem like things that will change the world.
3. The people from WAWWD think so.
That’s _____________ from WAWWD think.
4. Robinson thought that change was needed in society.
Robinson thought there was a _____________ change in society.
5. They got together to see how they could do it.
They got together to see how it _____________ .
6. The thousands of ideas were reduced to thirty.
The thousands of ideas were ___________ down to thirty.
7. The title developed from a suggestion by Erica.
The title is __________ on a suggestion by Erica.
8. No school in England is without a copy of the book.
_____________ in England has a copy of the book.
E - Listen and answer (Optional)
N.B. This interview is graded as C1. So don’t be discouraged if you find it difficult. Try to understand the main points.
Read these statements. Then listen to the interview, without reading, and write T (True) or F (False).
1. WAWWD is a charity, not a movement.
2. The Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is in the north of England.
3. Becki and Sarah are school teachers.
4. They go and talk to children in primary schools.
5. One of the “actions” mentioned in this interview is having showers instead of baths in order to save water.
F – Listen and read (Check your answers)
Listen to the interview while reading the text. (Check your answers to the questions in E.)
G – Talk about it
In pairs or groups.
1. Do you think that you can make a difference to the environment, or is it a waste of time?
2. Is climate change caused by human activity?
3. Can you think of some more suggestions to include in a book like Teach Your Granny to Text, And Other Ways to Save the World?
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