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Did you know?UNICEF -United Nations Children’s FundIt is an international organization which protects children’s rights through healthcare and education. It operates in more than 160 countries. Its main office is in New York.It works with governments on programs for children. It also works with communitiesto provide clear water, and on HIV programs. UNICEF has many different projects. butit is not always easy to realise those projects. In many big cities there are children wholive in rubbish dumps making houses out of pieces of cardboard and plastic. UNICEFtries to rescue the children by building and renovating old buildings. It tries to provideschools for children.After the devastating earthquake of1988 whole areas were destroyed in the North ofArmenia and UNICEF realised a number of programs both for grown ups and childrenhelping to overcome the aftermaths of the earthquake.Listen to the poem.1. What is the poem about?2. Who does Rudyard Kipling regard as a real man?Ifby Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance 1 for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch,If neither foes 2 nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fi ll the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!Rudyard Kipling(1865—1936) picA British poet, novelist and short-story writer. His Jungle Book is famous all over theworld.1 make allowance [@ 2lau@ns] – ѳßíÇ ³éÝ»É, ÁݹáõÝ»É2 foes [2fouz] – ÃßݳÙÇÝ»ñ (ÑÝó.)106