Vocabulary and grammar: Make a difference

Vinsight Collocations: charities

1Which of the nouns in each group below can’t be used with the verbs? 

• 1transform

  a situationsomeone's lifea donation

• 2take part in

  a problema marathonan event

• 3support

  a situationa campaigna charity

• 4raise

  awarenessa campaignmoney

• 5donate

  a charitymoneyunwanted clothes

• 6aid

  developing countriespoor peoplehelp

• 7volunteer

  timemoneycampaign

• 8address

  an issuea campaigna problem

 

V Charities

2Write the words in brackets in the correct form to complete the sentences. 

• 1SurFURS is a Californian surfing  for dogs, which raises money for animal charities. (compete)

• 2This is Mr Hargreaves. He's one of our most generous . (donate)

• 3A record number of  ran in the Jamaican Reggae Marathon when Bob Marley's son ran. (participate)

• 4Many charities use celebrities to  their campaigns. (promote)

• 5We're going to  a cake sale at school next week. (organize)

• 6It's often easy enough to send food aid to countries, but efficient  is often difficult. (distribute)

• 7PETA is an animal rights group which uses shocking posters in its . (campaign)

Future perfect and future continuous

3Write sentences using the future perfect or the future continuous. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1With new technology, cars / drive / themselves before long.

• 2The number / of people aged eighty / double / by 2020.

• 3People / soon / use / mobile phones / pay for everything.

• 4In thirty years / world / use up / most of / the remaining oil.

• 5By 2050 / US / become / the largest Spanish-speaking country / in the world.

• 6We / not live / on other planets / a hundred years from now.

• 7My sister / not pay off / her student loan / until twenty years after she finishes university.

• 8I / wait for / you / on the platform / when / the train / arrives.

Future perfect and future continuous

4Complete the email with the future perfect or future continuous form of the verbs in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• publicize
• arrive
• shop
• check
• hand out
• hear

Dillocks tax protest!

Hello all protestors!

As you know, we're getting together outside the main Dillocks store next Saturday to protest against them not paying any tax in this country. A lot of people 

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on Saturday because it's when the sales begin, and we 

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leaflets and asking customers not to shop there. There'll be some new people there to help, as Friday's local newspaper 

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the protest. We're still hoping that one of the town's MPs will come and speak – we 

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from them by Monday. We want the main speech to be shortly after 11.00, as we think the local TV reporters 

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by then. And just to confirm, this is a totally non-violent protest – we 

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that no one is causing any trouble.

Derek

5 CHALLENGE! Imagine that you are being interviewed about your future life. Complete the inteview quotes so that they are true for you. Use the future perfect or the future continuous.

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