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English Form 4 Unit 2
UNIT Theme: People and Culture

2 Ready for Anything

Textbook page: Unit 2, P.23, 24, 29

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PBD Module DSKP Practice

A Read the following texts.

George Martin, 56, was a former football Carlos Moleda, 46, is a former Navy SEAL who
player with the New York Giants who walked sustained lower body paralysis during the
from New York to California. He spent nine 1989 invasion of Panama. Moleda and his
months and used 27 pairs of shoes to walk four-person hand-cycling team participated
4828 km. For his effort, he not only raised $1.7 in a non-stop, nine-day race from California
million for healthcare for emergency workers to Maryland. His purpose was to challenge
who were first at the scene at the World misconceptions about physically-challenged
Trade Centre disaster but also promoted his athletes and to raise money for the Challenged
charity, A Journey for 9/11. Athletes Foundation.

Leonard Burman, 55, wanted to help Partners for Charity which is a charity that brings healthcare
and infrastructure to the poor around the world. Accompanied by his son, Burman cycled
from Oregon to New Hampshire and raised $109,000 for it. During the journey, they endured
heat storms, flat tires and even a dog bite.

Paul Ridley, 25, wanted to raise awareness Dean Karnazez, 46, started running to beat
about the disease that took his mother’s life insomnia but he also used it as a means to
as well as raise $500,000 for Row for Hope, help others. Karnazes, who is also known
a charity that supports skin cancer research. as the Ultramarathon Man, had done many
He decided to make a 4747 km solo journey endurance challenges to raise millions of
from Canary Islands to Antigua. But before dollars for children’s causes. In one challenge,
that, he spent years training and studying he ran 50 marathons, in 50 states over 50
maritime survival and navigation. During consecutive days. As a result, he was able to
his journey, he blogged about his experience raise $100,000 for Karno Kids, an NGO that
on his laptop and transmitted his blogs via among others helps get youths physically
satellite phone. active.

Learning Objectives:
Pupils will
• read texts about extreme activities and taking risks • learn to understand meaning in context

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