English Unlimited HAK/HUM 3, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM (mit Handelskorrespondenz)

60 Unit 5: Money matters k9h9bp Goals give advice talk about managing money give detailed instructions give reasons for advice explain something say you don’t understand All about money? In pairs, look at the pictures and compare and contrast them. Where are the young people? What do they have in common? Who do you feel closest to and why? READING 1 Read the story of a teenager who proved that it’s not all about money. What do you think is the most suitable heading for the story? a Homeless genius b Rags to riches c From cleaning floors to top university 2 With her long blond hair and dark-rimmed glasses Dorothy Lang looks like a movie star, but her life is very di erent from that of a privileged celebrity. A straight-A senior at a South Carolina high school she works as a cleaner in the school she attends. Dorothy got the job through a school workforce assistance program when, le by her drug-abusing parents, she found herself homeless at the start of the school year. Dorothy grew up in a ramshackle home without electricity or running water. ere were cockroaches everywhere and the trash was piled up two feet high. Dorothy and her brother would go for days or even weeks without showering and always wore the same clothes to school. ey were mercilessly teased by the other kids in middle school. Moving from town to town they ended up attending four di erent high schools, which put them behind other students’ progress. When the teachers realized Dorothy’s potential, they helped with candles so that she could study in the evening, o ered her use of the shower in the school locker rooms and enrolled her in online classes. ey also sent her to a six-week summer program reserved for South Carolina’s top students so that she could catch up with the others. When she returned from the summer program, she found out that her grandmother had been taken to a homeless shelter, and her parents had moved to California. Dorothy had been abandoned. For some time Dorothy lived at friends’ homes. en the town community and the school sta became her family. ey donated clothes and provided medical and dental care. Eventually, she moved in with the family of the school bus driver, and the high school sta contributed to her new Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv