## Step 2 - Reading

#### A millionaire’s tale

Je gaat een verhaal lezen over een miljonair.

- Lees het verhaal en maak opdracht 1.
- Lees het verhaal nog een keer en maak opdracht 2.

#### Opdracht 1

Deze opdracht doe je eerst alleen; daarna bespreek je de antwoorden in je groep.

Zet de tussenkopjes hieronder op de goede plaats in de tekst.

- Caring for others
- Example of kindness
- Legacy
- Vision about money

Milton Petrie Every morning billionaire Milton Petrie walked from his New York apartment and bought a newspaper from a ragged old man on the street corner.
1.
One morning the man wasn’t there. Petrie learned that he was very ill and was in the city hospital. Immediately, Petrie went to the hospital and paid for the old man’s medical bills. Later, when the old man died, Petrie also paid for his funeral. The old man was just one of many people that Milton Petrie helped with his money.
2.
Whenever he read about personal disasters in the newspaper, Petrie sent generous checks, especially to the families of police officers or fire fighters injured at work. He also sent checks to a mother who lost five children in a fire, and a beautiful model, whose face was cut in a knife attack.
3.
It cost him millions of dollars, but he still had millions left. He said that he was lucky in business and he wanted to help those less fortunate than himself. “The nice thing is, the harder I work, the more money I can make, and the more people I can help.”
4.
Milton Petrie died in 1994 when he was 92. His will was 120 pages long because he left $150 million to 383 people. His widow, Carroll, his fourth and last wife, said his generosity was a result of the poverty of his early years. His family was poor but kind-hearted. His father was a Russian immigrant who became a police officer, but he never arrested anyone because he was too kind. He couldn’t even give out a parking ticket.