Reading - Raising money for the art club

1 Read the message and check (ü) true or false.

Raising money for the art club

Our university art club is raising money for our activities this year. We need money for trips to museums. We usually go to art museums four times a year. We choose a different museum each time, and we see a lot of different kinds of art. It’s really interesting.

Today is one of our big fundraising days. Members of our club are doing different things to raise money. The first-year students are washing cars in the park downtown. People pay us ten dollars for each car. It’s nice and suy today, so they’re having fun!

The second-year students are selling muffins, brownies, and cookies in the student center at the university. Cookies and brownies are two dollars each, and muffins are three dollars. Oh, and they’re selling coffee, too. I think it only costs one dollar.

Third-year and fourth-year students are raising money in the park, too. They’re drawing pictures of people. It only takes about fifteen minutes to draw a person’s picture. For twenty dollars, you can have a black-and-white picture. Or for twenty-five dollars, you can get a picture in color.

We usually raise about six hundred dollars on our fundraising day. Raising money is hard work, but it’s fun, too.

1 It’s raining and windy today.

True False

2 The art club visits a different museum every month.

True False

3 All the members are raising money in the park today.

True False

4 First-year students are washing cars.

True False

5 Second-year students are selling sandwiches.

True False

6 Third-year and fourth-year students are taking pictures.

True False

7 The club is selling coffee for three dollars.

True False

8 It takes about an hour to draw a person’s picture.

True False

9 It’s easy to raise $600 in one day.

True False

2 Read the text again and complete the answers to the questions.

1 How much does a car wash cost? It costs ________.

2 How much does a brownie cost? It costs ________.

3 How much does a color picture cost? It costs ________.

4 What’s the weather like today? It’s ________.

5 Which students are working at the student center? The ___________ students are working at the studentcenter.

6 How much money do they usually raise? They usually raise _________________.