Number 19, exercise 7.0:04
Listen to the text about Mother Teresa and choose the right items in the statements below.0:08
She arrived in Calcutta on December 1, 1948.0:21
She had five rupees worth less than a dollar in her pocket.0:26
The terrible smell of poverty hit her in the face.0:30
She made her way around huge piles of waste.0:33
She watched the children playing among them.0:36
The rats running back and forth, the beggars looking for food.0:37
Faced with the filth, the sickness, the hunger, the numbers of people lying in the streets, where would she begin?0:42
She began with the children.0:50
She found an open spot between the huts, took a stick and began to trace the Bengali letters on a patch of earth.0:52
One by one, the slum children came to see what she was doing.1:01
At first there were only a few, but in no time there were about 30 children.1:05
She began to teach them about cleanliness before she began the Alphabet lesson.1:12
She washed them with soap and water.1:18
What a strange experience it was for them.1:20
They had hardly ever washed.1:23
Most of them had never even seen a piece of soap.1:25
Some of Sister Theresa's old friends heard about what she was doing and came to see her.1:30
They brought things for the school with them.1:36
Paper chairs and bars of soap, which Sister Theresa gave to the children as prizes.1:39
She managed to get some milk, too.1:46
It was just enough to give the children.1:49
At lunchtime, after school was over for the day, she went around the place to help the sick and the poor.1:51
Someone gave her some medical supplies so she could open a dispensary, a place to work with the sick, to give out medicine.1:58
She cleaned the sick and cared for them using the knowledge she had got at St. Mary's and pure common sense as well.2:06
Sometimes she begged for scraps of food at the door of the church so she could feed one or two starving people.2:14
But for every beggar who drank the water she brought, there were thousands more who were thirsty.2:23
For every starving man who received food from her, there were dozens more at her feet who held their hands up for something.2:29
For every child she taught, there were untold numbers who would never learn to read and write.2:37
Sister Theresa was determined and didn't want to stop.2:44
If she couldn't help the thousands she would help at least one person.2:48
Help came from friends and former pupils.2:55
She was joined by Sister Agnes, Sister Gertrude, Sister Bernard and Sister Frederick.2:58
They lived like the poor and worked from morning to night.3:04
They called themselves the Missionaries of Charity.3:07
And from that time on, Sister Teresa began to be called Mother.3:09
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