English – 2020

B1.1 Unit 2
Boost competences
Critical Thinking

Student’s name: Grade (Group): __________

In Colombia daily news show different situations in which human rights are violated. We can see
children starving, teenagers being excluded from the formal education and women being abused,
among others.

Activity 1. Access the following link and find a news in which you notice a human right being
violated. Paste the source (link) and then state your point of view about it.
https://colombiareports.com/

Source:
Personal and critical opinion:

Activity 2. Have you seen people around you (in your family, neighborhood, city, country) being
discriminated, excluded…? Try to identify some situations and follow the examples
while describing them:

- Children are forced to work in the streets

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- Farmers are exposed to displacement in far areas

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Activity 3. Search for information about inequity in Colombia. Choose a field and describe its
causes. Then propose some alternatives to solve this issue:
Example:

Field: Education
Cause: The Ser Pilo Paga Program has excluded students who belong to low social
conditions, since not all the students who access this benefit can continue or finish
their careers in private universities, because of the high costs of these institutions.
Some scholarship recipients cannot afford to making hundreds of copies, buying
meals inside the university or getting the expensive books that are normally required.
Alternatives - If the scholarship recipients could study in a public university, they would be able to
deal with extra expenses.
- If the Government invested in public schools, more students would have the
opportunity to study a professional career.
- If public university offered more options to study, the students would …

Field:
Cause:

Alternatives:

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Activity 4. Through two images (drawings, photos) show:

1. A social issue (inequity)
2. An ideal world

Then detail both situations (written or orally)

Reality Ideal world

In some companies, women are paid less Companies value both men and women, and
than men, spite the same function both offer them better salaries and opportunities
develop. to carry on higher education.
In other cases, women do not have the same
benefits as men have.
Drawings by Valentina Vega Sañudo (2018)

Activity 5. Listen to Imagine by John Lennon, and show agreement or disagreement in some (2 or
3) statements:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgFZfRVaww

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Statement Opinion
1. Imagine there’s no I think that people belonging to the same culture (religion,
countries beliefs, language…) would not be able to compare to others
and so try to improve their conditions (a current trend
reflects how interested some Colombian families are in
living in a safer and better country to grow their children)

Good luck!!

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