Active Skills for Reading Intro (Unit 8: Remarkable People)


CHAPTER 2 - The Tiffin Men

Vocabulary Skill - make+ noun

In this chapter, you read the phrases make a mistake and make a choice. In English, the verb make goes with many nouns.

A. Read the dialog below. Write the phrases that use the word make.

  • Nadia: Jill, can I use your cell phone? I need to make a call. I want to make plans for dinner.
  • Manolo: Hello?
  • Nadia: Hi, Manolo. It's Nadia. What do you want to do for dinner tonight? We need to make a decision.
  • Manolo: We can go to the new Thai restaurant on 24th·Street.
  • Nadia: OK, I'll make a reservation.
  • Manolo: Or we can make dinner at home. It's less expensive. I'll cook.

B. Complete the sentences below with a phrase with make from A.

  1. Call the restaurant and for four people at 7:30.
  2. If you need to , there's a pay phone on the first floor.
  3. It's very difficult to with Sue. She's always busy.
  4. Do you want to or go out to eat tonight?
  5. Please : do you want to have Japanese or Korean food tonight?

Importance of vocabulary skill development. As you practice vocabulary skills you will find you understand new words more easily. This will help you learn more vocabulary on your own.

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Dabbawallah: from Hindi1 meaning lunchbox deliveryman. Dabbawallahs are sometimes also called Tiffin Men.

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It's lunchtime in Mumbai, India (population: 12 million),and students and businesspeople around the city have to make a choice. Should they go to a restaurant or eat a hot lunch from home? Today,many can choose the second option, thanks to2 the dabbawallahs.


Every day,5,000 dabbawallahs deliver 200,000 lunches to people all over Mumbai. The dabbawallahs work together. They pick up a person's lunch from his or her house (or a restaurant). They put the hot lunch in a special box (called a tiffin). Then they bring the lunch to the person's office or school by lunch time. The men travel long distances (many kilometers a day) on bicycle, train, and foot to deliver the lunchboxes on time.

Many of the deliverymen are poor. Most cannot read. They use a special system of colors and lines to write a person's name and address on a lunchbox.
There are many challenges (traffic,3 bad weather, long distances), but the men are very organized. On average, for every 6 million lunches they deliver,they make fewer than one mistake! The dabbawallahs do so well that some teach classes at business schools around the world!

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1 Hindi is one of the official languages of India.
2 If something happens thanks to a person or thing, it happens because of that person or thing.
3 Traffic refers to all the cars, etc. on the roads in a particular area.

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