Preparation for Kenya – answers
1 As a cultural charity visit.
2 No, it was separate from school, it was a charity (called The Fulchrum Challenge)
that ran the trip.
3 At school
4 She thought it sounded a great opportunity; she decided to go on it as soon as she heard about it.
5 (For) another trip that was on (= being organised) at the time on which she was guaranteed a place if she’d not got on to the Kenya project.
6 8
7 2
8 She was picked.
9 On the top Laura is wearing.
10 Yellow fever
11 £40
12 No
13 Hepatitis B
14 Her arm ached (or her arm was achey), she had a bit of a cold and a bit of a temperature.
15 £1950
16 She had to raise all of the money herself.
17 £1000
18 That they were meant to (= supposed to) have one, but she only had small ones, as she found small fundraising events easier to organise.
19 None – she was unsuccessful because companies didn’t want to give money away to a charity
20 A non-uniform day at school.
Note: Sometimes charities raise money by school pupils paying a nominal amount of money – 50p is usual – to wear their own clothes instead of uniforms to school for a day.
21 £600
22 150 people bought tickets at £5 each, and food and raffle tickets were sold too.
23 No, she got a discount from the ceilidh band, because she knew one of the band members, and the caller was also free.
24 Over Christmas when she wanted to buy Christmas presents as well as having to save up money for the project.
25 Having to revise for exams, raise money and also organise events. She mentions that she had to meet deadlines (with her fundraising).
26 It didn’t affect her studies, but her social life was affected, because she didn’t go out at all – she couldn’t afford it.
27 Yes, but she had moments when she wished she hadn’t taken it all on.
28 It was her social life that went (= was sacricifed, was abandoned).
29 That of studying, having a social life and fundraising – she couldn’t do all three; she had to cut one of these activities out.
30 Yes, she was, but says ‘you never believe people when they tell you that!’.
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