USE IT! Work in pairs. Which story did you like best? Why? CHANGING THE WORLD WITH KINDNESSSometimes a spontaneous act of kindness can change another person’s life. Read about these incredible people and their actions that helped to make the world a better place for someone else.IN BRITAINLife can't be easy for musician Daniel Black. After a cycling accident in 2009, the doctors told him that he couldn’t walk or play the guitar. He had saved £22,000 for his intended expensive surgery when he...
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USE IT! Work in pairs. Which story did you like best? Why?
CHANGING THE WORLD WITH KINDNESS
Sometimes a spontaneous act of kindness can change another person’s life. Read about these incredible people and their actions that helped to make the world a better place for someone else.
IN BRITAIN
Life can't be easy for musician Daniel Black. After a cycling accident in 2009, the doctors told him that he couldn’t walk or play the guitar. He had saved £22,000 for his intended expensive surgery when he heard about a young boy who also needed surgery to allow him to walk. Daniel told the boy's family that he would donate all his money to the boy’s surgery. The little boy was then able to walk again.
IN THE US
Glen James, an unemployed and homeless office worker, did something both honest and kind. The police said that he decided to return a bag with $ 42,000 in it to the owner. A man called Ethan Whittington read about Glen and started a campaign to collect money forhim. Ethan said that anamazing 160,000 was raised and Glen's life hasn't been the same since.
IN VIET NAM
In March 2020, Hoang Tuan Anh, a Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for the poor during the Covid 19 lockdown. The machine distributed a 1.5 kg (3.3lb) bagful of rice from a small silo. The team said that people in need still had access to food and resources during the pandemic.
These stories may persuade you that when you spread a little kindness, there may not be a personal benefit, but you could encourage people to be kind to you, too.
Student A: Do you think that recycling can change the world?
(Bạn có nghĩ rằng tái chế có thể thay đổi thế giới?)
Student B: Yes,I think so. Recycling saves energy and water, lowers pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions, improves air and water quality, preserves landfill space and conserves natural resources.
(Vâng, tôi nghĩ thế. Tái chế giúp tiết kiệm năng lượng và nước, giảm thiểu ô nhiễm và khí thải nhà kính, cải
thiện chất lượng không khí và nước, bảo tồn không gian chôn lấp và bảo tồn tài nguyên thiên nhiên.)
Student A: Can you think of an idea to make toys from rubbish?
(Bạn có thể nghĩ ra ý tưởng làm đồ chơi từ rác không?)
Student B: Yes, I will make a little piggy bank from water bottles. Would you like to do with me?
(Vâng, tôi sẽ làm một con heo đất nhỏ từ chai nước. Bạn có muốn làm với tôi không?)
Student A: Sure!
(Chắc chắn rồi!)