Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News Stories is a collection of interesting and feel-good stories from around the world. Each story is written in two levels – beginners and intermediate. All you need to do is identify the highlighted sounds and choose the correct phoneme that represents that sound. News Stories helps you to identify individual sounds in long and more difficult written text. This improves your pronunciation of the words you read and your reading fluency.
Scott Neeson had everything ...: a job earning $1 million ... a year, an expensive ... car and a big ... house. He was the head ... of Sony Pictures ... and was rich .... He lived ... in America.
In 2004, he travelled ... to Cambodia. During his trip ... he visited ... a rubbish ... dump to find ... four ill ... children someone had told him about.
As Scott looked at the children working in the middle ... of deadly ... smoke and burning rubbish, he received ... a telephone ... call from his American ... office. The office ... told him that a star actor from Sony Pictures was ‘pissed ... off because his favourite ... computer game was not on his private ... plane. The actor who was earning ... $20 million a film ... said ‘Life ... wasn’t meant ... to be that difficult ...’ . Scott made the decision ... then and there to leave ... his job and help the kids ... of Cambodia.
He started the Cambodian Children’s ... Fund (CCF). His organisation ... gives ... schooling, child ... care and health ... services to children who live in the slums of Cambodia. It aims to support families ... who have little ... or no money to raise their children.
Today, CCF has reunited ... seven ... hundred children with their families and about three ... hundred children have been processed to leave badly run orphanages.
Scott believes ... children should live with their families in their communities ... and not in an institution ... away from their homes.