Fill in the Blanks Raising money for charity - Full Blast Plus 4 module2Online version Fill in the gaps. The text has two parts. by Boglárka Kozári 1 ground charities imaginative behalf donations gained skydive attract alone fierce unusual persuade raise locked raised skydiving crane cause ? There are thousands of and non - profit organisations around the world that help those in need . Competition is and they have to think of ways to raise money . A popular trend recently has been for charities to the help of members of society who do all sorts of weird and wonderful activities to raise money on their . People are prepared to do unusual and even extreme things for this . David Hunt , who is a firefighter , did something of the kind in 2010 . He spent 48 hours without any food in a glass box which was hanging 30 feet in the air from a above central London . His challenge was certainly not easy , but it successfully a lot of attention . With a little help from another firefighter who was on the ground , they managed to the public to support their cause by making that added up to over five thousand pounds . Their chosen charities were The Fire Fighters Charity and Cancer Research UK . It is not just the young who have gone up high to money for charity . In 2009 , Kay Matthews , who was 90 at the time , went to Norfolk , UK , to from a plane 13 , 000 feet above the for a war - victims charity . She about £3000 . Few people are brave enough to go , let an elderly woman , but she loved every minute of it . 2 decided among deadly unharmed wore prefer managed bit had however quite danger with spent Others to stay firmly on the ground , but still no further away from , like Nick Le Souef , a 67 - year - old businessman who lives in Melbourne , Australia . In 2010 , he to spend 3 weeks living in a shop window with 400 spiders to raise money for a children's charity . The real - life spiderman wasn't at all nervous as he slept his eight - legged friends , and survived the experience , raising fifty thousand dollars . The spiders , , weren't so lucky , as by the end of the challenge , a few of them had started eating each other . Raising money for charity is also popular students . Alison Bishop , from Middleton School in Peterborough , UK , decided to do her for charity by doing a sponsored silence in March 2011 . She a whole school day without saying a word . She to write things down in class and she a sign saying 'Please don't speak to me , I'm doing a sponsored silence for the National Deaf Children's Association . ' It was difficult but she to raise £874 .
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