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I have recently read an article called Fight Hunger While Learning Vocab by Karl Fisch that talks about how there is a website on the Internet that asks you vocabulary questions that are your level and for every question you get right, 20 grains of rice is donated to the United Nations World Food Program. "

FreeRice automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. It starts by giving
you words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how you do,
assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level
for yourself as you play. When you get a word wrong, you go to an easier level.
When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This
one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the “outer fringe” of your
vocabulary, where learning can take place.There are 50 levels in all, but it is
rare for people to get above level 48."

This program helps with two important issues. It helps give food to the starving people of the world and it helps improve our vocabulary. There are starving people all over the world and they need food. We have to help them because there are two different worlds on earth. There is our world that is full of opportunity and we are very lucky to live such a clean and successful environment and one that lacks the advances our world has made and is home to the poor. They have hardly any money and are starving to death. We need to help this other world and this is a step closer to helping. Because of the rice given, people will be able to eat and not spend all their money on just food for their family, but other necessities like a place to live. Also, many people around the world need to improve their vocabulary and this will help. In my school, many people including me need to expand our vocabulary. This website is beneficial in so many ways and is one step closer to ending world hunger.