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THE ARTICLE

A report from the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) organization has said that the world’s richest countries have broken their promises to send the world’s poorest children to school. Five years ago, 22 rich nations decided to give $5.4 billion to developing countries for primary school education. GCE has written “school report cards” on these countries and their performance - most score badly. They graded the quantity and quality of education aid programmes. The USA and Austria received an “F” grade; Norway and Holland are top of the class with “A’s”. There are still millions of children who have no schools to go to. The report says that: “For about the cost of four Stealth bombers, we could get 100 million more children into school.” A GCE spokesperson said: “Put simply…[rich] countries are preventing children in poor countries from going to school.” The report ended with a warning of what might happen if children have no education: We are…throwing away…the best chance we have to put an end to world poverty, and secure a more peaceful and stable future for us all.”

1. WORD SEARCH: Use your dictionary / computer to find word partners (collocates), other meanings, synonyms or more information on the words ‘primary’ and ‘education’.

2. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the headline and guess whether these sentences are true or false:

a.      School grades around the world are getting worse.  T / F

b.     The world’s richest countries have broken promises to poor children.  T / F

c.      Rich nations promised $5.4 billion to developing countries for primary school education.  T / F

d.     The USA did best in a school report and got an “A” grade.  T / F

e.      An NGO wants to get 100 million more children into primary school.  T / F

f.       A report says we are throwing away our best chance of ending poverty.  T / F

3. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

(a)	global	need
(b)	promises	got
(c)	nations	actions
(d)	performance	war planes
(is)	quantity	international
(f)	received	guarantees
(g)	bombers	amount
(h)	poverty	countries

4. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

(a)	the world’s	report cards
(b)	broken their	poverty
(c)	primary	promises
(d)	school	with a warning
(is)	aid	richest countries
(f)	top of the	class
(g)	The report ended	school education
(h)	world	programs