Vocabulary Preview
Match each word or phrase with the correct definition.
1. adventure
a. collecting
2. donation
b. an organized vacation or holiday
3. minimum
c. to do together or participate
4. raising
d. an exciting or strange trip
5. take part in
e. a gift given to a cause or charity
6. tour
f. the least level or amount
Pre-Reading Questions
Think about the following questions.
1. What is the most exotic place you have visited?
2. Would you call your visit to that place an “adventure”?
Why or why not?
3. What are some famous charities that you know of?
Who do these charities help?
Adventure Tours
for Charity
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n almost any magazine or newspaper in England, you can find
advertisements for adventure tours to
exotic places. These exciting tours can
be bicycling, hiking, or even motorcycle
trips across deserts, over mountains,
and around live volcanoes! Many of these tours are for charity, which makes them
more interesting to some people.
One advertisement offers people a “Bike
Ride to Hell and Back,” a 400-kilometer
bicycle
tour across the
lava fields of Iceland. The
advertisement says that the tour is like a ride
across the face of the moon. The organization
that sets up this tour is advertising for people
who
can give time and effort to raising money
for a good cause. For their hard work, these
people will also be able to take the holiday of a
lifetime.
The first thing that people have to do is sign up for the tour. The number of
people who
can go on each tour is limited, and many tours fill up fast. Those
who sign up then have to pay a
deposit in order to hold their space on the tour.
People cannot get their deposit back later if they change their mind, so they had
better be sure they really want to go. The deposit is usually between £150-250
(US $200-375).
Next, each person must raise a minimum amount of money for the charity.
This money could be anywhere between £1,500-2,500 (US$2,000-3,500). In
order
to raise this much money, some people send letters to friends and relatives
asking for help. Other people have big parties where all of the guests must pay to
come to the party. One farmer even
divided up his field into one meter squares
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exotic --- unusual
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lava --- rock, either
hot and fluid or solidified, which comes from a volcano
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raise --- to collect
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deposit --- money paid to reserve a place
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divide up --- to separate
