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A GOOD DEED COMES ROUND

 Have you ever benefitted from a good deed done by someone else? How did you
respond to it?
 Have you ever enjoyed the benefits of a good deed done a long time ago?

2. The group of Mozambique rebels who abducted the author immediately treated him
differently when they realized who he was.
 Do you think someone can be both good and evil at the same time?
 Have you met someone or known someone who was not good to you in the beginning
but later changed their attitude?

3. The author and his mother helped to vaccinate people against polio.
 Find out more about the polio virus. Learn about how it is transmitted, its symptoms
and the steps that are taken against it.

B Understand

B1 Arrange the following statements in order to make a paragraph. The first sentence has been
given.

 That person would squeeze a drop of the bright pink solution into each lump.
 He would check that the children had all swallowed the lump.
 Behind him came a health assistant with a bottle of vaccine.

 He would march down the line.
 The boy had a tray of sugar lumps.
 Then the boy would call for ‘tongues out’.

 He would give one sugar lump to each person.
 He helped with the polio vaccine for the children. . . .

B2 Choose the correct answer.

1. The writer tried to forget his homeland because
a) it was far from where he was working.

b) it was a place with too many brutal, violent memories.
c) he could not visit it for a long time.
d) there was a war going on in that place.
2. The writer was able to go back to Malawi because

a) the newspaper had sent him to South Africa on an assignment.
b) he was going with Prince Charles.
c) he could slip in as part of the official press entourage of the visiting dignitary.

d) he wanted to visit the place of childhood memories.

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