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1.7.1. Read the text again and answer the questions:

1. What are the aims of the 30 Hour Famine?

2. What projects will the money be spent on?

3. What do the following numbers refer to: 136,000; 3.1mln; 3.5mln; 418,000; 33,000; 1999; 18888?

4. A friend of yours is going to take part in next year’s 30 Hour Famine and trying to persuade you to do the same. Explain why you are not interested.

1.8.  Read this newspaper article and answer these questions as quickly as possible.

1. Is Nicky raising money for an international or a local cause?

2. How is she going to do it?

3. What will the money be spent on?

4. There is a play on words in the headline. Find it and explain it.

Nurse Nicky Nears Her Peak Of Fitness There are different ways of training to climb Kiliman­jaro, Africa's highest moun­tain.

by Lynda Murdin

Nurse Nicky Bennett-Rees has been walking across London every day from her flat to Great Ormond Street Hospital. Then, once her night-shift nursing sick children is over, she runs the five and half miles back home. Every weekend for the past two months she has been jogging in the park and play­ing her favourite sport, tennis. “I've even changed my diet”, she explained. “Now it's steak, eggs and as much fresh fruit as I can eat.”

What's it all for? Nicky is taking part in a sponsored climb at the beginning of September to raise money for an extension to the chil­dren's ward at her hospital. She and nine others (including myself) will spend five days climbing up and down Kilimanjaro's 19,340 feet. This is a final attempt to raise the £250,000 they need to build accommodation for the families of children desperately ill in hospital. They have been trying to raise the money for five years, and have so far collected nearly £200,000.

Nurse Nicky knows just how valuable it can be for children to have their parents near at such times. She has seen how parents of sick children are separated from the rest of their families, and then have to sleep on waiting-room floors. 'It's great to be able to do some­thing like this and at the same time make money for a worthwhile cause,' she added.

All the members of the climb have something in common. They have all had major surgery at some time in their lives, but there are no doubts about their fitness. They have all been training under Terry Allen, a football coach.

Such a trip needs a lot of organiz­ation and funding, and help has come from many quarters. Special winter clothing will be needed on the snow-covered summit, and local shops have provided this, and also climbing boots, sleeping bag and water bottles. The Dutch air line KLM has donated five of the air tickets to Tanzania free charge.

Since this newspaper announced the climb two weeks ago, readers have sent in scores of coupons like the one below. But more support is needed. Now is your chance sponsor a worthy cause, so fill the coupon in now.

I wish to sponsor the Sick Children's Trust Kilimanjaro Project team £.... p.... per 1000ft.

Total

Signature Name ......

Address

Phone No.

SEND to Dr John Pritchard. The Sick Children's Trust, Home from Home, 139 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8UB

Next week I’ll tell you how I’ve been preparing for the climb!

Comprehension check

  1. How has Nicky been training for the climb?

  2. How many people are going to take part in the climb?

  3. What do they all have in common?

  4. How long have they been trying to raise the money?

  5. What donations has the group already received?

  6. Imagine you are the writer of this article. How have you been preparing for the climb?

What do you think?

  1. Do you think this is a worthy cause? Why?

  2. If you decided to sponsor them, how much would you sponsor them for? If they completed the climb, how much would it cost you?