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1) Look carefully at the picture.
2) In the boxes, write your ideas in answer to the questions:
Who? What? When?
Where? And why?
3) Try to come up with some of your own questions about the picture.
Starter:
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Who? What? When? Where? Why?
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What do youWANT?WANT?
What do youNEED?NEED?
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Wants and Needs
In your group, decide:
Then:Decide on 4 items which you could discard
which 6 cards show things we
want
which 6 cards show things we
need
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Which cards was it difficult to make a decision about?
Why?
WANTSWANTS NEEDSNEEDS
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FACTS ABOUTAFRICA…
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Africa is the only continent to have become poorer in the last 25 years
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90% of all malaria cases are in sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria kills over a million
people a year
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3000 children die each day from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
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17 million people have died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
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12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost their parents to AIDS
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The life expectancy of a child born in sub-Saharan Africa today is about
46 years
European average: for men – 75 years
for women – 81 years
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20% of African schoolchildren are
AIDS orphans
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47% of Africa’s population is aged between 5 and 24 years old.
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Only 29% of African children receive secondary education
- and nearly all have to pay for it
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20% of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to electricity
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Only 56% of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to clean drinking water
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34% of the population of Africa is undernourished
Undernourishment by country
(% of population undernourished)
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More than 1000 languages are spoken in Africa
This map shows only SOME of them!
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There are 3.5 million refugees in Africa
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There are more people connected to the internet in New York City than in the whole of Africa
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40% of people in Africa over 15 years old are illiterate
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45% of the population of Africa live on less than $1 a day
% of population living on less than $1 a day
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Homework
Look at the questions you wrote down about the image you studied at the start of the lesson.
Choose one question that interests you (or come up with a new one).
Your homework is to research the answer.