Unit 4 Heart of Gold
Let’s talk Who are your favourite sportsmen and women? What do you admire about them? Reading Scan the text below to find the answers to the questions. • What happened in 2011? • Where did Veronica Campbell-Brown grow up? • How many Olympic medals has she won?
Heart of Gold
Since her retirement from athletics, world-famous Olympic sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown has devoted herself to helping others. After her appointment as UNESCO Ambassador for gender equality in sport in 2009, she created the Veronica Campbell-Brown Foundation. This organisation assists girls from needy families and helps them complete their education. Campbell-Brown regularly takes time out from her busy schedule to spend time with the girls selected for the programme and helps them make their dreams come true. Campbell-Brown did not have an easy path to success. Growing up in a family of nine brothers, she spent her early years in rural Jamaica. From the start Campbell- Brown showed promise as a sprinter, but her progress was held back by the lack of sports facilities in the area. Her natural talent won her a scholarship to Vere Technical College where she took advantage of the excellent sports programme provided by the school.
As long as you have breath, as long as the sun shines, and the trees and the grass sustain life, no dreams are too huge to come alive.
• Reading : Explain to students that scanning is a technique used in research to find out whether a text contains the information we are looking for. Looking for dates, numbers and names will help to locate the information. • Explain that ‘gender equality’ means giving boys and girls the same opportunities.
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