Vocabulary: Helping and sharing Grammar: make / do, seem / get / raise Function: Expressing feelings and ideas I think…/ In my opinion,…

Speaking : To answer the question about the story. Reading : To read for comprehension and answer. Writing : To write and share the opinion about the story

1. f 2. c 3. h 4. d 5. b 6. g 7. a 8. e

Charity (n.) Angelina annually gives some money to charity.

Clown (n.) A clown is a person who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly things to make people laugh.

Comedian (n.) A comedian is a person who makes people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories.

Look after (v.) I look after my sister when my mother is busy.

Raise (v.) Next year our boss will raise the salary for us.

Refugee (n.) Many people donated their money to the refugee.

Shaving (n.) My father likes shaving his beard by himself.

Sponsor (v.) My mother sponsors me for losing weights.

What kinds of problems do you think you would have if you had no money? If people have no money in your country, who can they ask for help? How can helping people be fun?

All around the world, there are people who are poor, sick and hungry. Sometimes it seems we can do nothing to help. But on Christmas Day in 1985, some famous comedians in Britain got together and decided to do something about it. They thought that if they could make people laugh, they could ask those people for money to help. They started a charity called Comic Relief. Since 1985, Comic Relief has raised more than £600 million!

There are many ways that comedians and other famous people raise money for Comic Relief. Each year the comedians record a funny pop song with pop stars like Robbie Williams. In 2003, J. K. Rowling wrote two special Harry Potter books. All the money from the songs and the books goes to Comic Relief. There is also a Red Nose Day each year. On Red Nose Day, many people wear a red nose, like a clown! People also ask their friends to sponsor them to do funny things like shaving their heads or telling jokes.

Comic Relief helps a lot of people with the money it raises. In Britain, it gives money to children who have to live on the streets and to refugees who have just arrived in the country. It also gives money to old people who don’t have families to look after them. Around the world, Comic Relief helps millions of poor, sick and hungry people.

Thanks to Comic Relief, helping other people can be fun!

Vocabulary A1. comedian 2. hungry 3. shaving 4. refugees 5. charities

Vocabulary B1. without money 2. promised to give money to 3. funny stories 4. people who wear funny clothes and do funny things 5. get

In other words A2 - To describe how Comic Relief helps people around the world. B1. Paragraph 2 2. Paragraph 3 3. Paragraph 1

General understanding 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T

In detail 1. In Britain since Some famous British comedians. 3. They record a funny pop song. 4. Harry Potter Books. 5. They wear a red nose like a clown and they also ask their friends to sponsor them to do funny things like shaving their heads or telling jokes. 6. Because they ask their friends to sponsor them to do funny things. 7. The poor, sick and hungry people, the children who have to live on the streets, the refugees, and the old people who don’t have families to look after them.