Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.4 - Mary's meals for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. What did the charity Mary's Meals do with the money that Martha Payne raised?
  2. In the story, what is the significance of the words and numbers in the box?

Answer

a)

They used the money to build a new kitchen in a school in Malawi, to feed nearly 2,000 children every day.

b)

  • grow vegetables / raise sheep → Martha's family grow their own vegetables and raise sheep.
  • school dinners → Martha thought of school dinners for her blog because she wasn't happy with her own and always came home hungry, so she wanted to do something about them.
  • £100,000 → Martha raised more than £100,000 for the charity Mary's Meals.
  • 100,000 people → This is the number of people that saw Martha's school meal photos in the first week.
  • 2,000 children → This is the number of children that are fed every day by the charity Mary's Meals.
  • kitchen → The charity used the money to build a new school kitchen in Malawi.
  • Hollywood → Martha and her family received offers from Hollywood after her story went worldwide (but she chose to visit the children in Malawi).