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Skills

Reading

1
Read the article quickly. Who has helped other people …
1 by protesting? 2 by being green? 3 by writing?

Get thought it wasn’t fair. She wrote about it in the
school newspaper, and then she wrote an article
for a big newspaper in Paris. She was even on
up, TV! Now she’s a professional reporter, and writes

about problems that young people have all over
stand the world.

up

Even young Andy started to plant trees when he was
people can 15 years old. When there was a forest re, he
change the world! planted new trees to help a new forest grow.
Read about three He started a group called TreePeople, which
kids who made
has planted more than two million trees around
a decision – to
Los Angeles, California. They also send fruit
stand up for their
trees to Africa, and help other groups protect
rights, and to
the environment in the same way. The group is Melissa was born in an area of London where
help other people.
now also trying to come up with a solution for there’s a lot of crime. Life was very di cult,
They’ve been able
to do something another big problem – there isn’t enough water especially for young people, and when she was
– and maybe you for all the people in California! 13, Melissa decided to stop talking about it and
can, too! begin trying to change her world. She organised
a meeting with lots of other kids. They sent out
emails to all their friends. Finally they all went
on a protest march through the streets near her
home. Everyone was talking about it, and for a
time, Melissa and her friends were famous! She
talked to many important people about what
they should do. Melissa is now a musician, and
has moved away from the streets where she was
born, but she still does a lot for young people.
Chantal, from France, writes for her school
newspaper. She was angry because children So you see, if you think something isn’t right, you
couldn’t go into many of the shops and cafés can change it - and there are many ways to give
near her school when they were in groups. She the world your message!

2 Read the article again. Correct the wrong information in the sentences below.
Andy 1 Andy has planted trees since he was a small child.
2 Andy’s group also plants fruit trees in Africa.

Chantal 3 The shops near Chantal’s school didn’t allow any young people to shop there.
4 Chantal is a teacher today.

Melissa 5 Melissa was worried about crime so she went on TV.
6 Melissa works as a policewoman now.

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