Title: CHARITY
Course: English at EOI (2nd level)

Read the statement below and share your comments with your classmates.

We should help the poor in our country before sending aid to other countries. Do you agree?

The questions below may help you to start the discussion:

- How important do you think is to give money to charity? Which charities are the most well-known?
- Do charities spend their money wisely or waste it on high salaries and costly living advertising campaigns?
- Do charities really help the poor to become independent in the long term or do they simply make poor people more dependent on charity?
- Do you think the rich have a duty to help the poor? Why / not?
- People say "Charity begins at home". Do you agree? For example, in your opinion, should the younger generations of a family help the elderly generation? Why / not?
- When there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world, why should other unaffected countries send aid?