UNIT 3

OUR WORLD: RICH OR POOR?

SESSIONS

  1. RICH PEOPLE, POOR PEOPLE
  2. RICH WORLD, POOR WORLD
  3. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES
  4. LIFE IN A POOR COUNTRY

CONTENTS

DIDACTIC AIMS

CONCEPTS

PROCEDIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE

ATTITUDES, VALUES AND NORMS

  • Vocabulary related to the concepts rich and poor
  • Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Terms used to refer to developing and developed countries 
  • World map division: poor-rich countries
  • Development indicators: levels of education, economic development, healthcare,  life expectancy, etc
  • List of developing countries
  • Use of adjectives high-low
  • Translating from English into Catalan
  • Writing about personal experiences
  • Writing positive things about our classmates
  • Finding information on the internet
  • Interpreting a table with facts and figures
  • Reading for specific information

 

  • Awareness of the importance of love, happiness, nature above money and materialism
  • Self-esteem
  • Appreciating the good things inside each individual
  • Awareness of the division of the world

 

 

  1. To understand ways in which you are rich and poor and that there is value in things apart from money and materialism
  2. To express positive thoughts about themselves
  3. To value friends and families as a source of love and mutual support, to feel positive about themselves
  4. To appreciate things in life that we take for granted: a nice sunset, a smile, meeting friends
  5. To increase their self-esteem
  6. To identify rich and poor countries on your map
  7. To use different words to help describe the differences between rich countries and poor countries
  8. To name different developed and developing countries
  9. To identify a number of development indicators
  10. To categorise a number of facts which divide rich and poor countries
  11. To analyse the factors that make a country rich or poor
  12. To talk and write about the present situation of some developing countries in Latin America and the Caribbean where Action Aid organisation is working
  13. To talk about what life is like in a town in India (developing country)
  14. To make a presentation to the class based on a slide show

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