Kickstarter: Helping Creative Projects Find Support

This website helps common people support their favorite artists

More than 200 years ago, Mozart sought supporters to help pay for the cost of his concerts. Today, both new and famous artists can do the same. They can share their projects on Kickstarter, a website where creators find supporters and raise funds. Since Kickstarter began in 2009, more than 5 million supporters have funded more than 60,000 projects. Projects range from films and video games to music and technology. Creators have complete control over and responsibility for their projects.

Supporters can pledge as little as one dollar or as much as $10,000. In return, creators thank them with special rewards. Offering $20 might lead to copies of a finished book. Offering $10,000 could result in a private concert.

Last year two Kickstarter-funded projects were especially successful. The film Inocente, about a homeless female artist, won an Academy Award. And the ArduSat project launched a satellite into space! When it comes to Kickstarter, it seems the sky really is the limit!

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Teaching Topic: Balanced Sentences 平衡的句子
- Creators have complete control over and responsibility for their projects.
have control over something 掌控
have responsibility for something 對一件事負責
二個片語裡都有一個介系詞 over & for,
這二個介系詞都是不能省略的,
一但省略了, 這個句子就失去了他的平衡,
一個平衡的句字可以平衡的比較二樣東西,
像某一家速食店廣告:
Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun!
買一筒雞得一筒樂趣!

Grammar Gym
Supporters can pledge as little as one dollar or as much as $10,000.
[Subject] can [verb] as little as... or as much/many as ...
- The fisherman can catch as little as one fish or as many as twenty.
- Students in the Reading Contest can read as little as one book or as many as they want.

Language Lab
support  n.
approval, encouragement, and perhaps help for a person, idea, plan etc:
- Josh's family gave him great support when he was running for mayor.
supporter n.
someone who supports a particular person, group, or plan
- The candidate's supporters all gathered in his election office.

fund v.
to provide money for an activity, organization, event etc:
- Janet's parents agreed to fund her first two years of college.
- The charity campaign was funded by Microsoft.
fund n.
[countable] an amount of money that is collected and kept for a particular purpose:
- The company tried to collect funds to develop new products.

launch v.
to send a weapon or spacecraft into the sky or into space:
- The general pressed the red button to launch the missile.
to start something, usually something big or important:
- The construction of this industrial complex will be launched next year.

the sky is the limit
used to say that there is no limit to what someone can achieve, spend, win etc:
- Because of her looks and talent, the sky is the limit for this young actress.
- Buy anything you like; the sky is the limit.

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