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Individual Rewriting
Now, read the text again and fill out the first column with the structure of the passage.
Then, write the keywords in the third column and write your sentences in the fourth one.
Use your own words and discuss your answer with your friends.

Structure Sentence Keywords Rewriting

1. Steve Morgan, a multimillionaire founder of a
massive house building company from
Garston, Liverpool, lived in a caravan with no
electricity or water for three years and didn't have an
indoor toilet until the age of seven.

2. He regularly arrived late to school after delivering 120
papers on the 15-mile rounds, and ultimately leading
to him being kicked out of school for fight with the
prefect.

With too low a threshold for boredom to become an
accountant, and not good enough eyesight to be a
fighter pilot, Steve got a job on a building site.

He fell in love with everything about construction, and
worked his way up to become a site manager by 19.

When the civil engineering company he worked for in
Liverpool took on a council contract to build a sewage
system, which they weren't able to complete, 21-year-
old Steve set up Redrow to do it for them.

With £5,000 investment from his dad’s business,
Steve finished the job ahead of schedule and made a
profit of £5,000, which would be worth more than
£38,000 in 2021.

Redrow eventually expanded from roads, sewers,
factories and offices to building council and housing
association homes.

By the time he stepped down as chair of Redrow in
2019, after 45 years with the company, it had a
revenue of £2.1bn.

Steve more recently earned the title of "disruptive
philanthropist".

His first foray into charity was in 1996 when he
stopped taking a salary from Redrow, instead
donating what he would have earned to Alder Hey
Children's Hospital for a new oncology unit there.

He also used his money to set up the Steve Morgan
Foundation in 2001 to make a difference to the lives
of those suffering from disability or disadvantage.

Since then, he's donated to hundreds of charities.

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