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You are going to read another passage from the same article, about a teenage girl, Zea Tongeman. Read the paragraph opposite, then create a second paragraph by matching a phrase from Column A with one from Column B. Put the completed sentences into the correct order.
Read the text again and fill in the gaps using words from Activity C2.
Zea Tongeman, a 14-year-old from south London, was not a self-proclaimed tech geek. ‘I used to think technology was just fixing computers and saying thing like: “Have you tried turning it on and off again?”’ But when she realised, after a Little Miss Geek workshop in her school, that tech could be fun and a force for good, she changed her mind. With a friend, Jordan Stirbu, she designed an app called Jazzy Recycling that aims to get people recycling by turning the sometimes tiresome task into a game. Zea comments: ‘As Mary Poppins says: “You find the fun and it becomes a game,” and that is exactly what our app does.’ Adapted from www.theguardian.com
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1 Jazzy Recycling helps users find places to recycle, tells them what they can recycle
a and then enables them to scan, share and get rewards for their efforts.
2 Now Zea has some celebrity backing, and Raj Dhonota, 3 She thinks that to have people actually using their app 4 Tapping into the teen mania for sharing even the most mundane titbits of daily life on social media,
b the game is then shared among friends. c
business consultant and investor, is helping the pair build the app and they hope to launch it very soon.
d and to know that they have made a difference would be incredible.
Writing 8
Which person would you most like to meet: Kelvin or Zea? Write a paragraph of about 80 words, giving your reasons.
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