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7 reading • Being kind 7 language focus • Reported speech
Reading • Being kind I can scan a text to locate information. I can report what people said.
THINK! When did someone last do something kind for you? What was it? 1 Complete each sentence with one word 4 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.
Aim from the article on page 72. 1 He said that it isn’t a good idea.
1 The doctors told him that he
Scan a text to locate information. Changing the world with kindness walk or play the guitar. 2 They didn’t tell me that they will visit
Hạ Long Bay.
Sometimes a spontaneous act of kindness can change another person’s life. Read about these 2 Daniel told the boy’s family that he 3 The dentist told that his tooth needed
incredible people and their actions that helped to make the world a better place for someone else. donate all his money to the filling.
THINK! in Britain in Việt nam boy’s surgery. 4 Liên said that she may be absent from the
Read out the questions and elicit a few In March 2020, Hoàng Tuấn Anh, a Vietnamese 3 The police said that he to meeting.
entrepreneur in Hồ Chí Minh City invented a 24/7
answers from individual students. Ask automatic dispensing machine providing free rice return a bag with $42,000 in it to the 5 use IT! Work in pairs. Look at the
owner.
more questions to encourage them to say for the poor during the CoVID-19 lockdown. 4 The team said that people in need still photos. Take turns to report what your
The machine distributed a 1.5 kg (3.3lb) bagful of
more, e.g. Who was the person who helped rice from a small silo. The team said that people in access to food and resources. mother said to you in these photos.
you? Did you know them? Why do you think need still had access to food and resources during My mother said that I needed to do the cleaning.
the pandemic.
they helped you? Ask: Do you ever do things 2 Choose the correct options to complete the
rules.
to help other people? What do you do? What in the Us My mother told me that my room was very messy.
other things could you do? Glen James, an unemployed and homeless Rules
office worker, did something both honest
Life can’t be easy for musician Daniel Black. and kind. The police said that he decided to 1 We use indirect speech (reported speech)
ANswers After a cycling accident in 2009, the doctors return a bag with $42,000 in it to the owner. to report the meaning of what is / was said.
Students’ own answers. told him that he couldn’t walk or play A man called Ethan Whittington read about We put indirect speech in a noun clause
Glen and started a campaign to collect
the guitar. He had saved £22,000 for his
beginning with that / this.
intended expensive surgery when he money for him. Ethan said that an amazing
exercise 1 heard about a young boy who also needed $160,000 was raised and Glen’s life hasn’t 2 After a reporting verb in the past simple,
surgery to allow him to walk. Daniel told been the same since. we usually change present modals to past
Read the study strategy with the class. the boy’s family that he would donate all These stories may persuade you that when you spread a little kindness, modals, and present tenses to past tenses /
Read out the task and elicit that when we his money to the boy’s surgery. The little there may not be a personal benefit, but you could encourage people to future tenses.
boy was then able to walk again.
scan a text, we don’t read every word, but be kind to you, too.
move our eyes over it quickly, looking for 3 Study the rules, then complete the following
sentences.
specific information. If students are not 1 Read the Study Strategy below. Then scan 2.22 Read and listen to the article again.
familiar with the idea of scanning, explain the online article above to find out what jobs 3 Write true or false. Correct the false sentences. 1 'You have to rest for 3 months.' to
The doctors told me that I
that it is the same technique that we use Daniel Black, Hoàng Tuấn Anh and Glen James had. 1 The writer doesn’t believe that there are rest for 3 months.
when looking for our own name in a list STUdY STRATEgY advantages to being kind. 2 'Honey can prevent the growth of bacteria.'
of names. Finding specific information 2 Daniel Black and the boy both got the Some scientists said that honey
medical treatment they needed.
prevent the growth of bacteria.
Elicit what words students can scan for To find specific information, don’t read the text 3 Receiving money changed Glen James’s life. 3 'I am raising some money for my poor
here, e.g. the names of jobs. Students then in detail. Follow these steps: 4 The rice ATMs distributed an unlimited students.'
scan the article to find the jobs. Check 1 Identify the type of information, or key amount of rice each time. She told me that she some
words, you’re looking for.
answers with the class. 2 Read the text quickly. Look out for the key 4 VOCABULARY PLUS Use a dictionary to money for her poor students.
words. Don’t stop at difficult words. check the meaning of the nouns in blue in 4 'When you spread kindness, you may feel
ANswers 3 Read the text around the key words again the text. What is the verb form of each one? good about yourselves.'
and check. Our teacher said that when we
Daniel Black was a musician. Hoàng Tuấn 5 USE IT! Work in pairs. Which story did kindness, we feel good about
Anh was an entrepreneur. Glen James 2 2.22 Read and listen to the online article you like best? Why? ourselves.
was an office worker. again. Why are these numbers mentioned?
1 £22,000 2 $42,000 3 1.5 kg
exercise 2 e 2.22
Ask students to scan the article quickly 72 Big ideas Big ideas 73
to find the numbers. You could do this
as a race to encourage students to scan 2 false (Daniel gave all the money he exercise 4 VOCABULArY PLUs
quickly. Play the audio. Students read and had saved for his own surgery to the
listen, then note down why the numbers boy so that the boy could afford to Students use a dictionary to check the
are mentioned. Check answers with have surgery.) meaning of the blue words. With stronger
the class. classes, you could encourage students to
3 true try to guess the meaning from the context
ANswers 4 false (The rice ATM distributed a 1.5 kg first, then check in a dictionary. Check that
1 £22,000 – the amount of money saved bagful of rice each time.) students understand all the words.
by Daniel Black ANswers
2 $42,000 – the amount of money Glen Optional activity: reading Students’ own answers.
James found Put students into pairs. Ask them to
3 1.5 kg – the amount of rice distributed think of a suitable heading for each Workbook page 48 exercise 5
each time from the rice dispensing
machine paragraph of the article. Elicit answers exercise 5 Use IT!
from the class and discuss as a class the Allow students time to prepare their ideas
exercise 3 e 2.22 best heading for each paragraph. individually, then put them into pairs to
Allow students time to read through the POssIBLe ANswers discuss the questions. Encourage them to
sentences, then play the audio again. Helping a child, Rice ATMs, express their own opinions and listen to
Students read and listen and decide if Honesty pays their partner’s opinions. Ask some pairs to
the sentences are true or false. Remind tell the class their opinions and ideas. Ask
them to correct the false sentences. Check students if they know any similar stories of
answers with the class. kindness.
More practice
ANswers
Workbook page 48
1 false (Sometimes a spontaneous Practice Kit Reading 7
act of kindness can change another
person’s life.)

T78 Unit 7