Just because
I didn’t want
to take a bath
READING
1 What are the objects here? Match the words in the list with the photos.
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Talk about the objects with a partner.
3 SPEAKING Imagine you could only have one of these things. Which would you choose?
4 Read the sentences and guess the correct answer. Listen and check your answers.
5 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the title of the article and the photos. What do you think the article is about? Compare your ideas with other students.
‘… just because I didn’t want to take a bath’
6 Read and listen to the article about a young inventor.
LUDWICK MARISHANE, a 17-year-old South African, was with his friends in Limpopo when they started talking about inventing something to put on your skin so you don’t have to take a bath. Ludwick thought that this was a great idea. He used his mobile to do some research on the Internet, and he found some shocking facts.
Two point five billion people around the world haven’t got clean water. This is a huge problem because dirty water can create terrible illnesses. One of them is trachoma: eight million people all over the world get trachoma every year. They wash their faces with dirty water, get an infection and become blind. To ‘… just because I didn’t want to take a bath’ stop trachoma, people don’t have to take expensive medication. They don’t have to take pills. They don’t have to have injections. They have to wash their faces with clean water. That’s it.
Ludwick started thinking. He wanted to make something to help people in parts of the world where it’s difficult to find clean water. He did more research on his mobile, and he did more thinking. Ludwick had a plan. He wanted to make a gel for people to put on their skin so they don’t have to take a bath. He wrote the formula for the gel on his mobile phone. When he was at university, he never stopped thinking about his invention. He started to talk to other people about it, and three years later the dream came true. He made the gel and called it ‘DryBath’.
Ludwick Marishane is the winner of lots of prizes. People call him ‘one of the brightest young men in the world’. He is very happy about his success. DryBath is helping people to be healthy. And DryBath also helps to save water. That’s important in many parts of the world where it’s difficult to find clean water. Now he wants to invent other things, and he wants to help other young people to become inventors too.
Are the sentences True or False?
Correct the false sentences.
THINK VALUES
Caring for people and the environment
1 Match the values with the sentences in the speech bubbles.
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about Ludwick Marishane. Try and find as many answers as possible.
GRAMMAR
have to / don’t have to
1 Complete the sentences from the article with have to and don’t have to.
2 Complete the rule and the table.
3 Match the sentences with the pictures.
4 Complete the sentences with have to / has to or don’t / doesn’t have to.
VOCABULARY
Gadgets
1 Match the words with the photos.
2 How important are these gadgets for you? Make a list from 1 to 10 (1 = most important, 10 = not important at all).
3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Compare your ideas and tell your partner how often you use these gadgets.