The Scout Movement

1. Read the text and match the numbers of the headings to the parts of the text. 

1. Baden-Powell returned to England as a national hero after defending the town of Mafeking. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were reading his book Aids to Scouting. This book was a military training manual that taught soldiers techniques such as observation, tracking, initiative, and others. Baden-Powell met with many people in youth movements across the country and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, Scouting for Boys, which was published in 1908. It was soon realised that some form of organisation was required to support these Scouts.

2. In 1910, Baden-Powell retired from the Army to devote his time, effort and money to Scouting. This year also saw the first census of Scouts in the UK.

3. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog in London, when a small boy approached him, and offered to take him to his hotel. The boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout. Boyce was interested in this and visited Baden-Powell before he left London to discover more of this . When he got back to the USA he set up the movement the Boy Scouts of America. By 1918, its number had risen to 300,000, and had reached the million mark before the end of the twenties.

4. Scouting now has 25 million members worldwide. Originally Baden-Powell had made Scouting as a movement for boys between the ages of 11 and 18. But he set up the girl movement the Girl Guides in 1910, with the help of his sister, Agnes, and then with the help of his wife, Olave. In 1909 Scoutmasters were facing the problem of younger broth ers willing to join in the fun . And he created a kind of young Scouts organization under the title Wolf Cubs based around the Jungle Book of his close friend Rudyard Kipling, with the Cubs having their own distinct uniform, badges, motto, sign, salute, etc. Just before the end of the Great War, Baden Powell set up a scheme of rules for Senior Scouts, which changed its name to Rover Scouts the next year, for anyone over the age of 18 to join it .

5. Baden-Powell’s health was very poor and in 1938 he moved to Kenya to spend the last days of his life in Africa. He died on January 8th, 1941

1. Read the text and match the numbers of the headings to the parts of the text. 

1. Baden-Powell returned to England as a national hero after defending the town of Mafeking. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were reading his book Aids to Scouting. This book was a military training manual that taught soldiers techniques such as observation, tracking, initiative, and others. Baden-Powell met with many people in youth movements across the country and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, Scouting for Boys, which was published in 1908. It was soon realised that some form of organisation was required to support these Scouts.

2. In 1910, Baden-Powell retired from the Army to devote his time, effort, and money to Scouting. This year also saw the first census of Scouts in the UK.

3. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog in London when a small boy approached him and offered to take him to his hotel. The boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout. Boyce was interested in this and visited Baden-Powell before he left London to discover more of this . When he got back to the USA he set up the movement, the Boy Scouts of America. By 1918, its number had risen to 300,000, and had reached the million mark before the end of the twenties.

4. Scouting now has 25 million members worldwide. Originally Baden-Powell had made Scouting as a movement for boys between the ages of 11 and 18. But he set up the girl movement the Girl Guides in 1910, with the help of his sister, Agnes, and then with the help of his wife, Olave. In 1909 Scoutmasters were facing the problem of younger broth ers willing to join in the fun . And he created a kind of young Scouts organization under the title Wolf Cubs based around the Jungle Book of his close friend Rudyard Kipling, with the Cubs having their own distinct uniform, badges, motto, sign, salute, etc. Just before the end of the Great War, Baden Powell set up a scheme of rules for Senior Scouts, which changed its name to Rover Scouts the next year, for anyone over the age of 18 to join it .

5. Baden-Powell’s health was very poor and in 1938 he moved to Kenya to spend the last days of his life in Africa. He died on January 8th, 1941

1. Read the text and match the numbers of the headings to the parts of the text. 

1. Baden-Powell returned to England as a national hero after defending the town of Mafeking. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were reading his book Aids to Scouting. This book was a military training manual that taught soldiers techniques such as observation, tracking, initiative, and others. Baden-Powell met with many people in youth movements across the country and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, Scouting for Boys, which was published in 1908. It was soon realised that some form of organisation was required to support these Scouts.

2. In 1910, Baden-Powell retired from the Army to devote his time, effort, and money to Scouting. This year also saw the first census of Scouts in the UK.

3. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog in London, when a small boy approached him, and offered to take him to his hotel. The boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout. Boyce was interested in this and visited Baden-Powell before he left London to discover more of this . When he got back to the USA he set up the movement the Boy Scouts of America. By 1918, its number had risen to 300,000, and had reached the million mark before the end of the twenties.

4. Scouting now has 25 million members worldwide. Originally Baden-Powell had made Scouting as a movement for boys between the ages of 11 and 18. But he set up the girl movement the Girl Guides in 1910, with the help of his sister, Agnes, and then with the help of his wife, Olave. In 1909 Scoutmasters were facing the problem of younger broth ers willing to join in the fun . And he created a kind of young Scouts organization under the title Wolf Cubs based around the Jungle Book of his close friend Rudyard Kipling, with the Cubs having their own distinct uniform, badges, motto, sign, salute, etc. Just before the end of the Great War, Baden Powell set up a scheme of rules for Senior Scouts, which changed its name to Rover Scouts the next year, for anyone over the age of 18 to join it .

5. Baden-Powell’s health was very poor and in 1938 he moved to Kenya to spend the last days of his life in Africa. He died on January 8th, 1941

1. Baden-Powell returned to England as a national hero after defending the town of Mafeking. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were reading his book Aids to Scouting. This book was a military training manual that taught soldiers techniques such as observation, tracking, initiative, and others. Baden-Powell met with many people in youth movements across the country and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, Scouting for Boys, which was published in 1908. It was soon realised that some form of organisation was required to support these Scouts.

2. In 1910, Baden-Powell retired from the Army to devote his time, effort, and money to Scouting. This year also saw the first census of Scouts in the UK.

3. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog in London, when a small boy approached him, and offered to take him to his hotel. The boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout. Boyce was interested in this and visited Baden-Powell before he left London to discover more of this . When he got back to the USA he set up the movement the Boy Scouts of America. By 1918, its number had risen to 300,000, and had reached the million mark before the end of the twenties.

4. Scouting now has 25 million members worldwide. Originally, Baden-Powell had made Scouting as a movement for boys between the ages of 11 and 18. But he set up the girl movement the Girl Guides movement in 1910, with the help of his sister, Agnes, and then with the help of his wife, Olave. In 1909, Scoutmasters were facing the problem of younger brothers willing to join in the fun. And he created a kind of young Scouts organization under the title Wolf Cubs based around the Jungle Book of his close friend Rudyard Kipling, with the Cubs having their own distinct uniform, badges, motto, sign, salute, etc. Just before the end of the Great War, Baden Powell set up a scheme of rules for Senior Scouts, which changed its name to Rover Scouts the next year, for anyone over the age of 18 to join it .

5. Baden-Powell’s health was very poor and in 1938 he moved to Kenya to spend the last days of his life in Africa. He died on January 8th, 1941

1. Read the text and match the numbers of the headings to the parts of the text. 

1. Baden-Powell returned to England as a national hero after defending the town of Mafeking. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were reading his book Aids to Scouting. This book was a military training manual that taught soldiers techniques such as observation, tracking, initiative, and others. Baden-Powell met with many people in youth movements across the country and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, Scouting for Boys, which was published in 1908. It was soon realised that some form of organisation was required to support these Scouts.

2. In 1910, Baden-Powell retired from the Army to devote his time, effort, and money to Scouting. This year also saw the first census of Scouts in the UK.

3. In 1909, an American businessman, William Boyce, was lost in the fog in London when a small boy approached him and offered to take him to his hotel. The boy refused any offer of money for the service, saying that it was his good turn as a Boy Scout. Boyce was interested in this and visited Baden-Powell before he left London to discover more of this . When he got back to the USA he set up the movement, the Boy Scouts of America. By 1918, its number had risen to 300,000, and had reached the million mark before the end of the twenties.

4. Scouting now has 25 million members worldwide. Originally Baden-Powell had made Scouting as a movement for boys between the ages of 11 and 18. But he set up the girl movement the Girl Guides in 1910, with the help of his sister, Agnes, and then with the help of his wife, Olave. In 1909 Scoutmasters were facing the problem of younger broth ers willing to join in the fun . And he created a kind of young Scouts organization under the title Wolf Cubs based around the Jungle Book of his close friend Rudyard Kipling, with the Cubs having their own distinct uniform, badges, motto, sign, salute, etc. Just before the end of the Great War, Baden Powell set up a scheme of rules for Senior Scouts, which changed its name to Rover Scouts the next year, for anyone over the age of 18 to join it .

5. Baden-Powell’s health was very poor and in 1938 he moved to Kenya to spend the last days of his life in Africa. He died on January 8th, 1941