Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Reading Read the text below, then choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for questions 1–5. Put a in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. 15 e in atable crown e idea was original but wonderfully simple. It was based on the belief that the similarities between people of di erent nations are much greater than the di erences. In a time when we are used to seeing pain and su ering from all over the world on the daily news, why not produce something that focused on the warmth of humanity; a celebration of the common human bonds such as laughter, fun and love. All the idea needed to work was time to travel, enthusiasm, 1000s of rolls of lms and millions of balloons! Amateur photographer Charlie Eckert met part-time balloon twister Addi Somekh in New York in 1995 and was amazed at the power that Addi’s balloon hats had to make grown-ups laugh and behave more like children. In turn, Addi was impressed by the warmth that Eckert’s photos showed. e idea came naturally: Why not travel the world, meet normal people, make them balloon hats and then take their photos. e results would hopefully one day be published in a book. ey lost no time in getting started, and in the spring of 1996 they made a journey through central America, making hats and taking photos. At the end of it they were more convinced than ever that the idea would work and made the decision that they would need six separate trips, each lasting two months, to ful l their ambition. e next trip took them to Europe, and a er that came Africa, where huge crowds turned up to watch the men at work. Travelling wasn’t always easy, but the warm welcome they were given more than made up for nights spent sleeping in bus stations. All the time both men were perfecting their trades. Addi could twist balloons into amazing headgear in seconds and Charlie’s photographic skills were getting better by the day. e fourth trip, through Asia, was a month longer. On their trips so far the men had taken all the balloons and lm they could carry with them, but this time Addi had to have fresh supplies of balloons sent out to him. Charlie shot more than 140 rolls of lm. In between trips the men returned to the States and continued with their old jobs in order to raise the money for their next journey. ey had also started sending their photos to publishers to try and raise some interest. So far they had had no luck. In the spring of 1998, the men took advantage of two peace treaties that had been signed in the Balkans and the Middle East to travel through those regions, and in the autumn of that year they made their nal trip through their own country – 34 states in four months driving around in an old Volvo station wagon. By the end of their travels, the men had more than ten thousand photos, no money and no interest from a single publisher. It wasn’t that the publishers didn’t like the idea, many of them loved it, but in order to make money with a book of photographs, you need famous people in it. Charlie and Addi had none. A solution was nally arrived at with Chronicle Books, who agreed to publish if it was adapted into a “how to make balloon hats” book. Although this had never been their intention, both men realised that in order to get published they would have to have to change their original ideas. And so in September 2001, more than ve years and 34 countries a er their original idea, 50,000 copies of “ e In atable Crown” were produced and put on sale. Now Addi and Charlie have formed their own company, Major League Productions, and are working on calendars featuring their work. (Adapted from: www.balloonhat.com ) 150 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv