XI. Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about your rights and duties. Text for Supplementary Reading.

The boy of thirteen scratches around the roadside. Sometimes he begs. Since he was eleven Krishna has been alone because people avoided him. He has a family, a big one and they love and miss him. Krishna has leprosy, a curable disease, but one which in some countries still shocks. The shame is so great that for Krishna's family its impossible to keep him home.

His father would have lost his job and his brothers and sisters would have been asked to leave school and his mother could not have gone to market to buy food.

Not far away there is a colony for people with leprosy. These people have lost their hands or feet and facial features.

There are about 15 million people mostly in the developing world, who have leprosy, five million of them under the age of 15.

A lot of them don't receive any treatment. The main problems are fear and misunderstanding. Despite wide - spread education programmes - the World Health Organization refused to use the world "leper" in the 1940s because of its negative sense - leprosy sufferers are still hidden away and prejudiced against. Many are afraid to seek treatment and suffer permanent disability as a result.

But leprosy is not confined to the developing world. There are about 30000 sufferers in Europe. Despite of fear many people have of disease, and the effect it has on sufferers, leprosy rarely kills. It is often overlooked as governments fight diseases such as malaria, cholera and TV.

Choose the correct answer or way of finishing:

1. Krishna lives alone because:

a) his family no longer wants him;

b) his family cannot let him stay with them;

c) his father hasn't enough money to keep him;

d) he has more chance of survival this way.

2. What do we learn about leprosy from this extract?

a) it mainly affects young people;

b) it only occurs in developing countries;

c) the disease kills quickly;

d) people are unnecessarily afraid of it;

3. The best way to help sufferers would be:

a) ask the World Health Organization to help;

b) change peoples attitude;

c) provide long - term support;

d) make the cure cheaper.

4. One problem of dealing with leprosy sufferers is that:

a) governments refuse to help them;

b) too many sufferers come asking for help;

c) it's a difficult disease to cure;

d) the sufferers don't turn for help in time.

5. Where does this extract come from?

a) a magazine article;

b) an advertisement for the World Health Organization;

c) an educational book for nurses;

d) a short story.