B. Pre-reading exercises

3.     RAISING MONEY: How could these challenges raise money? What other benefits could there be? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

 Climb Mt Everest

What? / How?             What other benefits?

Run around the world

 Eating

Gaming

English language

 Environment

4.     DOING SOMETHING: Students A strongly believe everyone should do something for charity every year; Students B strongly believe every year is too much. Change partners again and talk about your conversations 

5.    CHARITY: Rank these with your partner. Put the most important charities at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

• World Wildlife Fund                                                      • Red Cross / Red Crescent

• Sport For All                                                                     • Environment charity

• Cancer charity                                                                 • Amnesty International

• AIDS charity                                                                     • Médecins Sans Frontières

6.   CRAZY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "crazy". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

BEFORE READING