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Tiếng anh 12 - Unit 8: Change the world - Reading - Making a difference - I can understand an article about young people who are making a difference.


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1 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Think about the image of young people in the media and society in general. Discuss the questions, giving reasons for your opinions.

Which of these words are sometimes associated with a media image of young people? Does that image differ from reality?

activists   show-off   social conscience   thoughtful   thoughtless   threatening   vandalism   volunteer

2 Read the articles. What do Wilson To and Rene Silva have in common?

Reading Strategy

Read all the text once and then read the questions. Match any questions that are immediately obvious, and identify and note the parts of the text that contain the evidence for your answers. Then carefully read each section of the text again and look for the answers to the remaining questions.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

 

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👍A-tech compliments

Wilson To was beginning his final year at school when he decided to get a school Facebook page started. Nothing unusual about that, you might think, but Wison's motivation for setting up the page wasn't to discover the latest school gossip. He believed that Facebook could help him take on a problem that was making life difficult

5 for a few schoolmates: bullying.

Without mentioning his plans to his friends, Wilson launched 'A-tech compliments', a Facebook page which invited students to send in anonymous compliments about each other, their teachers and their school. At first, Wison wasn't expectin expecting much of a response and he monitored messages closely in case unpleasant comments or racism

10 appeared. However, Wilson needn't have worried. 'A-tech compliments' was an instant success and quickly had five hundred regular followers, all of them being positive. It seems that the students were just waiting for the opportunity to say nice things about each other and their school!

Although everybody wanted to know who had thought up this great idea, Wilson kept

15 his identity secret until the end of the school year, when the school intercom asked the creator of the Facebook page to reveal himself. Wilson stepped forward to receive the applause and thanks of the whole school. He was also given one last job to do: train a new administrator so the page could continue after Wilson stepped down. Today, the idea has also spread to high schools across the country.

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3 Read the Reading Strategy. Then look at the question below. Which text matches with it? What is the information in the text that helps you answer it?

Who started their project because they had already identified a need?

4 Match two texts with questions (1-5) below. Each of the texts can match more than one question.

Who...

1 offered some training to others?

2 was given an idea by someone else?

3 published something?

4 worked in the most dangerous conditions?

5 worked anonymously?

5 Decide if the statements (1-5) are true (T), false (F), or the information is not given (NG).

1 Wilson To was worried that his Facebook page would attract the wrong type of comments.

2 Wilson has left the school, but continues with his job as administrator of the school page.

3 Wilson didn't let anyone know he was the creator of the page because he was too modest.

4 Rene Silva got the funding for his newspaper from local residents.

5 Rene's reporting has had a big impact outside the favela.

6 VOCABULARY Match the underlined words with the appropriate form of the highlighted words or phrases in the article.

Words or phrases

1 The biggest sponsor of the contest still remained unknown. His name could only be guessed.

2 The drama club is a perfect expression for Amy's talent.

3 Jack always invents great ideas for our politics blog.

4 Mark accepted too much work and responsibility in the organisation and suffered from stress.

5 The typical journalists are expected to have particular skills in coverage and photography.

6 Alice left the job so that Andy could take her place.

7 My grandad established the business in 1958.

7 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Discuss the question.

Wilson To or Rene Silva, who makes a deeper impression on you?

VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY

20 A teacher spotted Rene Silva's talent for writing when he was just eleven and encouraged him to set up a community newspaper. Rene accepted the challenge and took on publishing Voz da Comunidade (Voice of the Community) and he soon realised that the monthly newspaper could help his neighbourhood. Rene lives on the edge of Rio de Janeiro in a favela, a poor town that used to be controlled by armed drug gangs. Rene's newspaper quickly became a vehicle for protest about the poor conditions in the favela and gave a voice to local residents who were campaigning to make the

25 community a safer and better place to live.

But one Saturday morning, Voz da Comunidade was transformed from a small local newspaper into Brazil's most popular source of information. The government had decided to force the drug dealers out of the favela and had sent soldiers onto the streets. Journalists from the mainstream media waited outside the favela for news, but Rene and his team of teenage reporters were in the middle of the action. Using their mobile phones to film and take photos, the Voz da Comunidade

30 Twitter account suddenly had thousands more followers than usual and Rene's reporting was praised by the mainstream media. More importantly, it started a debate about how the government should help the inhabitants of Brazil's hundreds of favelas. Rene and the Voz da Comunidade brought positive change to the community.

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  1. Unit I: Introduction
  2. Unit 1: Relationships
  3. Unit 2: Problems
  4. Unit 3: Customs and culture
  5. Unit 4: Holidays and tourism
  6. Unit 5: Careers
  7. Unit 6: Health
  8. Unit 7: Media
  9. Unit 8: Change the world
  10. V: Vocabulary Builder
  11. G: Grammar Builder and Reference
  12. W: Worldlist

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