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10b T eacher’s notes &

International aid 10b

answer key
This lesson covers the same vocabulary and grammar areas
as Lesson 10B (Giving) on pages 98–99 of Straightforward
Upper Intermediate Second edition Student’s Book. It
could, therefore, be used to replace or supplement this
lesson.
Grammar: reporting
See pages 139–140 of Straightforward Upper Intermediate
Second edition Teacher’s Book for language notes.
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1 The Commissioner said that the EU had given €11

Speaking
If you’re looking for a lead-in …
In a previous lesson, allocate one of the following topics
to different students. They should research their topic
(Wikipedia, Google, etc) and prepare a short 4 One journalist wanted to know if / whether all EU
(eg two-minute) presentation on it.
Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid
At the beginning of this lesson, ask two students to give a
short presentation on their topic.
Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
This is a part of the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its members are
the major donor countries (the US, the EU, etc), and its role
is to discuss and co-ordinate development aid.
Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid
This is a department of the European Commission that
is responsible for managing development aid to
other countries.
Reading
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c  It depends how the money is spent
2 extreme poverty.
1 b Facts and figures   
2 a Criticisms
3 e Towards a solution   
4 d Talks begin
5 c Progress
3 5 She wanted to know if / whether there were other
1  priority    2  correlation    3  dumped    4  awarded
5  effective
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billion in aid in 2010.
2 He explained that individual EU countries had also
given another €44 billion in the same year.
3 He thought that the results of the aid programmes
were very positive.
countries would meet the UN target of 0.7% of
national income.
5 He replied that this was difficult for some countries
in the present economic situation.
6 He asked if the journalists had any further
questions.
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1 ‘The EU gave €11 billion in aid in 2010.’
2 ‘Individual EU countries also gave another €44
billion in the same year.’
3 ‘The results of the aid programmes are very positive.’
4 ‘Will all the EU countries meet the UN target of
0.7% of national income?’
5 ‘This is difficult in the present economic situation.’
6 ‘Do you have any further questions? Have you (got)
any further questions?’
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1 She asked how many people in the world lived in
2 He replied (that) there were about 1.4 billion
people in extreme poverty, but the number was
going down.
3 She asked how the EU had helped these people.
4 He said (that) they (the EU) had provided seeds
and tools for over 24 million people.
things that the EU did.

1  a    2  e    3  b    4  f    5  d    6  c

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International aid 10b

Vocabulary: collocations with give

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give … priority (to)

giving … support (to)
give … more thought (to)
giving … examples (of)
give … the chance (to)
gave … the opportunity (to)
give … promises (of)
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Note: all the words in italics in this exercise are very
common collocates of the verb give. In each case, only one
example is possible because of the sense of the sentence.

1  thought    2  instructions    3  priority    4  promises

5  support    6  power    7  opportunity

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