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Transcript: DD/MM/YYYY Woman wins $1 million warm up IN DEPTH What is something you have won in the past? (prize, contest, trophy) What is something someone has given you as a gift? How many famous painters do you know? Do you have a favorite painting? What is something you have gifted to your mother? Vocabulary PROFILES Auction public sale where the product is sold to the highest payer TITLE Raffle A way to raise money. First, numbered tickets are sold, and then random numbers are choosen. Person with matching number, wins! TITLE Charity a way to give help, usually money, to people in need. TITLE Collect - Collected to bring or gather together. TITLE Villages small town in the countryside. TITLE vocab quiz TITLE A way to raise money. First, numbered tickets are sold, and then random numbers are choosen. Person with matching number, wins! TITLE small town in the countryside. TITLE a way to give help, usually money, to people in need. TITLE to bring or gather together. TITLE public sale where the product is sold to the highest payer TITLE Reading EVENTS An Italian lady won a Pablo Picasso painting. She won it in a charity raffle. Her son bought her the ticket for Christmas. The lady found out she was the lucky winner on Wednesday. Her son explained that when he told his mother she had won a Picasso, she said: "Please don't joke." He added: "It was maybe the best decision I've made in my life." His mother could not believe she had won. She said it was "incredible". She added: "I have never won anything before". The painting is of a newspaper and wine glass on a table. It is called Still Life. Picasso painted it in 1921. The winner was decided in Paris at an auction house. It valued the painting at $1.1 million. The billionaire art collector who gave the painting to the raffle said it was worth up to $3 million. All the money collected in the raffle will help people in Madagascar and Cameroon. An NGO will build and repair wells and toilets in countryside villages. comprehension check How did the lady win the Picasso painting? Who bought her the ticket? What was the painting called? What did the painting look like? How much was the painting worth? How will they use the money that was collected? Discussion IN BRIEF