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
- Watch the DVD. What did the charity Mary's Meals do with the money that Martha Payne raised?
- 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).
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