Anty Louise is rich and
lives on her own. One time on a trip over there she tells you that if
you do well in your next carnival she is going to give you something
really special for your birthday. On your 12th birthday a
letter comes for $3000. When you show your family they are gob
smacked. Your brothers both sit, dazed, staring at the cheque and
then look at you. Your father calls Anty Louise to insist that it is
so much money. He is worried that she is losing her marbles but she
insists that the money is yours.
Your father says that you
will have to decide what you want to do with it. Your brothers say
nothing but you feel terrible. They have never been given more by her
than a pair of socks for their birthday. You are wondering what you
should do with the money.
Task: Decide what is the
right thing to do with the money and justify your answer.
(Text from: Sally Young, Talk it up! Discussions points for upper Primary Students)
Hi I am Pablo Hermoso 3B.If i were in the place of this girl I would feel very grateful but I would feel sad too because I hace seen that she only has gave me money and not at my brothers or my family members I think that it would be a difficult option but I would try to convince my aunt to remind the money and if I can´t convince her I would try to distribute the money to all my family and i would try to distribute my money in same parts with my brothes bercause I think that all the members of the family have the same rights.Me and my family would try to spend that money in necesaries things as food or clothes.That is what my family and me would do,but I would try to save some money to spend it in my studies when I grow up because I think that these is necesary and important at less to me.If the girl choose the option of stay with the mnoney she alwyas will has to be grateful with her aunt because thanks at her She is going to have a better future and she will can keep her family.If this girl had been much more humble she would not has chosen money and she would has a hardest future.That´s all
ResponderEliminarhello,I am Rafael David Morales Mora
ResponderEliminarI think that you have two options make a present for all your family members or take the money for you.if you select make a present it is the best option you are doing them feel happy because they know that you prefer they that your aunt.if you select take the money for you they are going to hate you because they are doing them feel bad because the aunt only give you money.
Paula González 3°ESO B
ResponderEliminarThe best thing would be to distribute the money among the brothers so that they don't feel bad.
Hello, I´m Pablo Ortiz Leal, from 3 ESO A, and I think the right thing is don´t spend it all at once, because if you need it later, at least you´re sure you´re a little saved, I`m not saying don´t spend anything on yourself, but sometimes you have to think about the future and not focus on you´ve given me a lot of money, I´m going to spend it all now. You have to think about saving, but with so much money, you can also thank your parents, uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc... to have met your basic needs and bought you what you needed when you were a little smaller and help them if they need money, because they are going through a bad economic moment or because they don´t have a job.
ResponderEliminarYou could also spend some money to help NGOs and donate some money so that the most disadvantaged can meet their basic needs, another part could go to clean up the oceans of the plastics and polluting waste there, and another part would go to help marine animals, because many get caught up in fishing nets and others are left uninjured or others simply die, people care about something that I find unfair. That´s what I would do if they gave that kind of money to me, because I think it´s importat to help people, animals and the environment as we would like them to help us.
Greetings, Chari.
I would pay him back, it's a lot of money and he might need it.
ResponderEliminarIf she wants me to keep it, then I would share it with my parents as neither of them work and we need it.
I would buy a cheque for a hotel and spend a holiday with my parents and brothers and sisters, we could buy a motor home and go for walks. The truth is that we would really want to use the money, we would really need it.
And if she kept it, she would probably want to buy me some fun games or something I liked to make up for it, but I wouldn't want to accept it since the money is hers, but I would thank her for caring about me. I wonder if one day my parents will get a good job.
Jesús Martínez 3B
Luis Miguel Aguilar Vela 3 ESO A
ResponderEliminarWell my opinion is that the great-aunt has done quite badly in having a favorite nephew and having to give him something much better than his other nephews, since I think that in the family there must be equality between all, so in a way educated try to explain and try to understand Louise that this is something unfair. But if my great-aunt has given me the money and I and my family really need it, I see correct that with that amount of money I can distribute it among my whole family and since it would be my birthday I would keep a little more amount of money to buy me a gift that I like. And if my family does not need the money and neither do I, I would give the money to my great-aunt and I would really appreciate it, but it is a lot and my family and I would feel bad accepting that large amount of money.
Marta Moreno Pedrero 3 ESO A
ResponderEliminarWhat I would do is share the money with my family.
Hola maestra te puedo contestar en español la actividad. Yo lo que haría con mi dinero es quedarmelo para mi y mi familia .
ResponderEliminarHi, I'm Ismael Díaz Marín from 3A
ResponderEliminarI think that if my grandmother says she wants to give it to me, yes or yes, I think I should share it with my brothers because they are just as grandchildren as me.
But it is true that I would stay a little longer than them since our grandmother has given it to me. But clearly that money would be controlled by parents. I would also take advantage of it to travel with my family and have a great time. Also if we are a humble family I would give it to my parents to fix something in the house or anything else. And I would give something to my grandmother since she has given me that large amount of money and a family member who needs it. This is my opinion for the homework
I'm Jonathan Ramos Rodriguez 3A I would use it in an association of orphaned children who have no money, part of the money and the other part would go to people who live on the streets and are very cold and have nowhere to stay or to eat and the other part would be given to my friends. parents to help you as much as possible that is to pay taxes for electricity etc.
ResponderEliminarANA BENÍTEZ 3°B
ResponderEliminarI think that what I would do would be to try to distribute the money among my siblings and for each one to do whatever they want with that money. I would also give my parents to help with things around the house.
Juan Carlos Periñan Sánchez 3ºB
ResponderEliminarI share the money with my brother
Lucía Romero Fernández 3ESO A
ResponderEliminarAunt Louise did this too bad because first, is bad having a favourite nephew and second for the others brothers is horrible because for their birthdays, she didn't give any great present but with the her favourite nephew gave a a lot of money, so i understand he feel bad with her brothers. The best thing is share the money with their (the brothers) and have money every nephew.
Or not acept the money and give again to the aunt, so nobody have the money.