Students Book

8 Read and listen
a Read the texts quickly and find out:
b
1 how many goals were scored in the world’s
longest football match.
2 how much money was raised in the
Twestival event.
3 what charity is supported by J. K. Rowling.
CD2 T06 Read the texts again and listen.
Answer the questions.
1 Why did the Bishops Cleeve football players
have to finish the game in the end?
2 In what ways has Twitter helped to aid
humanitarian projects?
3 Why did J. K. Rowling produce seven
handwritten copies of Beedle the Bard?
FUN FUNDRAISING
The world’s longest football match
The world’s longest
football match finished
on Sunday after a
remarkable 36 hours
of play. An incredible
626 goals were scored
at Bishops Cleeve,
Gloucestershire, in a match that enters the Guinness
Book of Records as the longest ever played. The two
sides kicked off at 6.30pm last Friday and the final
whistle was blown at 6.30am on Sunday morning,
ending an epic charity match which raised £30,000
to help build a school in India.
The match would have carried on for even
longer if torrential rain hadn’t made conditions
too dangerous to continue. Several players from
the two 18-man teams had already been taken off
with injuries.
THE 140 CHARACTERS THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE
@twestival I think it was a great
success, lets all try to raise even
more money next time #charity
HANDWRITTEN BOOK BRINGS IN
£1.9 MILLION FOR CHARITY
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is
a book of children’s stories by
British author J. K. Rowling.
The book was originally
produced in a limited edition
of only seven copies, each
handwritten and illustrated
by the author. One of them
was offered for auction in
late 2007 and was expected to
sell for £50,000; ultimately it was bought for £1.95 million by Amazon.
com, making the selling price the highest achieved at auction for a
modern literary manuscript. The money earned at the auction of the
book was donated to The Children’s Voice charity campaign. The book
was published for the general public about a year later, with all income
earned going to the charity.
‘The idea came really because I wanted to thank six key people who have
been very closely connected to the Harry Potter series, and these were
people for whom a piece of jewellery wasn’t going to cut it. So I had the
idea of writing them a book, a handwritten and illustrated book, just for
these six people. And well, if I’m doing six I really have to do seven, and
the seventh book will be for this cause, which is so close to my heart,’
said J. K. Rowling.
REALIA 044a
Can people change the world for the better in 140 characters? The answer
is a clear and defi nitive ‘yes’. Twestival, which was fi rst held in 2009, brings
Twitter users from around the globe together to raise money for charity. In
the fi rst event, over $250,000 was raised for chairty: water, which aims to
get access to clean and safe drinking water for people in the developing
world. But this is not the only charity event
held through Twitter. Tweetsgiving has raised
$10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania and
Tweet-a-thon – a 12-hour marathon of video
and tweeting – raised money for Water is Life.
Discussion box
1 Can you imagine taking part
in any of the fundraising ways
described here? Why / Why not?
2 Which of the ways of fundraising
described here do you find
most/least impressive? Why?
3 What creative ways of
fundraising can you think of?
4 If you were well off, would you
be prepared to donate a large
sum of money to charity?
Why / Why not?
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