The things people will do: Full Blast

Things people will do

Full Blast

PART 1

Read the text on page 22 and answer the folliowing questions

Multiple Choice

What's the latest trend regarding charities?

• Think of imaginative ways to raise money

• Attract the help of members of society to do all sorts of weird and wonderful activities for them

• Organise extreme activities

Multiple Choice

How many people were mentioned in the text

• Four

• Five

Multiple Choice

What does David Hunt do?

• He's a firefighter

• He's a teacher

Multiple Choice

How did he (David Hunt) raised money for his charity of choice?

• He spent 3 weeks living in a shop window with 400 deadly spiders

• He spent 48 hours without food locked in a glass box which was hanging 30 feet in the air from a crane

• he did a sponsored silence

• he skydived from a plane 13 000 feet above the ground

Multiple Choice

Who helped him persuade the public to support his cause?

• Another firefighter who was on the ground.

• Alison Bishop, from Middleton School.

Multiple Choice

How much money did he (David Hunt) manage to raise?

• £874

• £3000

• over £5000

• £5000

Multiple Choice

Which charities were chosen by the firefighters?

• National Deaf Children Association and a war victims charity

• The Fire Fighters Charity and Cancer Research UK

• A children charity and the Fire Fighters Charity

Multiple Choice

How old was Kay Matthew in 2009?

• 67

• 48

• 29

• 90

Multiple Choice

How did she (Kay Matthews) raised money for the war victims charity?

• she spent 3 weeks living in a shop window with 400 deadly spiders

• shee spent 48 hours without food locked in a glass box which was hanging 30 feet in the air from a crane

• she did a sponsored silence

• she skydived from a plane 13 000 feet above the ground

Multiple Choice

How much money did she (Kay Matthews) manage to raise?

• £874

• About £3000

• over £5000

• £3000

Multiple Choice

Who is Nick Le Souef?

• a volunteer

• a businessman

• a student

Multiple Choice

What did Nick do to raise money for a children's charity?

• he locked himself in a glass box

• he skydived from a plane 13 000 feet above the ground

• he spent 3 weeks living with 400 deadly spiders

• he did sponsor silence

Multiple Choice

How much money did he (Nick) manage to raise?

• $50000

• $500

• less than $50000

• over $50

Multiple Choice

What did Alison, a student in UK, do to raise fund?

• wore a sign saying "Please don't speak to me"

• wore a sign saying "I am doing a sponsored silence"

• did a sponsored silence

• wrote things down in class

Multiple Choice

Allison is a student at

• Middleton School in Norfolk, UK

• Middleton School in Melbourne, Australia

• Middleton School in London

• Middleton School in Peterborough, UK

PART 2

Choose the correct word for the given meaning

Multiple Choice

A difficult task

• Weird

• Challenge

• Brave

• Unharmed

Multiple Choice

Not injured

• Unharmed

• Deadly

• Ground

• Attention

Multiple Choice

Able or likely to cause death

• Deadly

• Attention

• Ground

• Unharmed

Multiple Choice

Help

• Challenge

• Support

• Ground

• Brave

Multiple Choice

Great interest people show in somebody / something

• Help

• Challenge

• Attention

• Brave

Multiple Choice

Strange, unusual

• Challenge

• Weird

• Support

• Ground

Multiple Choice

The surface of the earth

• Round

• Ground

• Support

• Flat

Multiple Choice

Fearless

• Deadly

• Support

• Unharmed

• Brave