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Chris Saling with Joel Sartore
Power of a Wish
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is an organization that grants wishes to sick children aged 3 to 18. It has been granting wishes for more than 30 years.
A. (🎧3-14) Listen. Circle the correct answers.
In 1980, a boy named Chris Greicius was dying from 1. (cancer / a heart disease). His wish was to be a 2. (firefighter / police officer). A few officers from Arizona, U.S.A. heard about his wish, and they wanted to help. Within a few days, they 3. (made his wish come true / raised a sum of money). After this experience, two of the officers decided that they wanted to help children 4. (from poor families / with life-threatening illnesses). So they created the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Today, the organization has granted more than 300,000 wishes to children 5. (around the world / in the United States).
B. (🎧3-15) Listen. Circle T for True or F for False.
1. Saling's wish was to go on a photo shoot with Joel Sartore. T F
2. Saling took photos of wild animals. T F
4. Saling started to raise money to support medical research on his condition. T F
3. National Geographic held an exhibition to display Saling's photos. T F
Discussion. If you had some money to give to charity, whom would you give it to? Do you know any other organizations that help children?
