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Date: Nov 24, 2005
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THE ARTICLEIn the twenty-first century, hunger and a lack of food still kill six million children a year. This is according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Another depressing fact from the report is that in sub-Saharan Africa, there are more children dying from starvation today than in the 1990s. Hunger and malnutrition are the main reasons for poverty, illiteracy, disease and deaths in developing countries. The report says the developed world has not provided enough aid to the hungry. Many children die every day from easily preventable diseases such as diarrhea, malaria and measles. The UN food agency said it is unlikely to meet its goal of cutting in half the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. This target was made by the World Food Summit in 1996 and boosted by the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Countries that joined these programs have been slow to deliver on their promises of aid. The only bright spot in the gloomy report was for South America. Asia too has a good chance of reaching targets. Agency boss Jacques Diouf stated: “Most, if not all of the ... targets can be reached, but only if efforts are redoubled and refocused and priority given to agriculture.” Source: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/1000151/index.html WARM-UPS1. FOOD: In pairs / groups, talk about quantities of food. Do you eat too much? Do you waste food or throw it away? Do you see food being wasted in your daily life? Why do you think we have so much food but most of the world has too little or none? 2. THE HUNGRY: Discuss the following groups of people. How would you like to help them? What should world governments and organizations do to help them?
3. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. For more conversation, change topics and partners frequently. 4. HUNGRY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word “hungry”. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 5. MY COUNTRY: Do any of the problems in sub-Saharan Africa also affect your country? Talk about whether these problems exist where you come from. Are they big problems?
6. HUNGER OPINIONS: What do you think of these opinions on world hunger? Talk about them with your partner(s).
BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words in the column on the right into the gaps in the text. UN: Hunger kills 6m children a year
LISTENINGListen and fill in the spaces. UN: Hunger kills 6m children a yearIn the twenty-first century, ________ and a lack of food still kill six million children a year. This is according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Another ___________ fact from the report is that in sub-Saharan Africa, there are more children dying from ___________ today than in the 1990s. Hunger and malnutrition are the main reasons for poverty, ___________, disease and deaths in developing countries. The report says the developed world has not ___________ enough aid to the hungry. Many children die every day from easily preventable diseases such as diarrhea, ___________ and measles. The UN food agency said it is ___________ to meet its goal of cutting in half the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. This target was made by the World Food Summit in 1996 and ___________ by the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Countries that joined these programs have been slow to ___________ on their promises of aid. The only bright spot in the ___________ report was for South America. Asia too has a good chance of ___________ targets. Agency boss Jacques Diouf stated: “Most, if not all of the ... targets can be reached, but only if efforts are redoubled and refocused and ___________ given to agriculture.” AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘main’ and ‘reason’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the gap fill. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. STUDENT “WORLD HUNGER” SURVEY: In pairs / groups, write down questions about world hunger and why so many children are still dying in the 21st Century.
6. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall exactly how these were used in the text:
DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
AFTER DISCUSSION: Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked about.
SPEAKINGGOODBYE PROBLEMS: In pairs / groups, discuss ways how your government(s) can make these problems disappear. Put your suggestions in the right hand column.
HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information on the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s report. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson. Did you all find out similar things? 3. MY GOVERNMENT: Create a poster explaining what your government does to help the needy - either in you own country or in others. Include a section that has your advice for your government’s future actions. Explain what you wrote to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you all have similar ideas? 4. DIARY / JOURNAL: Imagine you live with the possibility of starvation. Every day is a struggle to find enough food to eat and survive. Write your diary / journal entry for a day spent in poverty and need. Show what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all write about similar things? ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: UN: Hunger kills 6m children a yearIn the twenty-first century, hunger and a lack of food still kill six million children a year. This is according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Another depressing fact from the report is that in sub-Saharan Africa, there are more children dying from starvation today than in the 1990s. Hunger and malnutrition are the main reasons for poverty, illiteracy, disease and deaths in developing countries. The report says the developed world has not provided enough aid to the hungry. Many children die every day from easily preventable diseases such as diarrhea, malaria and measles. The UN food agency said it is unlikely to meet its goal of cutting in half the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. This target was made by the World Food Summit in 1996 and boosted by the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. Countries that joined these programs have been slow to deliver on their promises of aid. The only bright spot in the gloomy report was for South America. Asia too has a good chance of reaching targets. Agency boss Jacques Diouf stated: “Most, if not all of the ... targets can be reached, but only if efforts are redoubled and refocused and priority given to agriculture.” |
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