Activity One

Student: Diego Alejandro Morales Villada

What I need to know to complete this activity successfully:

• Past Simple, Be used to and Get used to

Vocabulary required:

• Regular and Irregular verbs in past

• Discrimination related vocabulary: Against, Suppression, Struggle, Rights,
Attack, Bullet, Shoot, Attacker

What is this activity useful for? By properly completing this activity, you will be able to
provide supported points of views on issues of general interest, understanding and respecting
others opinions and assuming a position about a topic.

Part 1. Warm-up: Answer the following question before reading the article below.

1. What is discrimination?

• Discrimination is a form of passive violence, sometimes turning this attack into

physical assault. This can be caused by skin color, ethnicity, sex, age, culture,
religion, or ideology.

2. What kinds of discrimination did people use to have in the past? Give an example.

• In the past and nowadays discrimination is experienced in many aspects, an

example from the past that is very clear is racial discrimination, it is incredible
how in the USA there were toilets for whites and blacks, although currently this
has been changing, however there is still a little of this discrimination.

3. Do you think people are used to discrimination nowadays?

• I consider that people have changed their minds over time, thanks to the
proclamation of the rights and duties that all of us have as human beings, also
with the support of organizations and foundations, it has helped to ensure that
they are fulfilled.

4. How many types of discrimination can you think of?

• Consider that there are many types of discrimination, since if we are rational,
discrimination is intended to make a person feel bad, so this is why many kinds
of discrimination arise. One of the reasons why there is discrimination may be
the economic or social situation, ideology, submissive and imitative personality,
need or interest, among others. Through this, some kinds of discrimination are:
individual discrimination, institutional discrimination, racism, age discrimination,
religious discrimination, among others.

5. What is stereotyping?

• A stereotype is an immutable image, idea or notion that one social group has
over another, to which behaviors, qualities, abilities or distinctive features are
generally attributed.
 6. What kinds of stereotyping are you used to listening to?Give an example.

• The stereotypes that I am most used to hearing are religious stereotypes,

political stereotypes, class stereotypes, gender stereotypes, sexual
stereotypes, physical stereotypes, among others.

Part 2. Read the text carefully and answer the questions.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-
ever Nobel Prize laureate. On 10 October 2014, Yousafzai was announced as the co-
recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle against the suppression of
children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Having
received the prize at the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel
laureate. Yousafzai shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a children’s rights activist
from India.

In October 2011, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African activist, nominated

Yousafzai for the International Children’s Peace Prize of the Dutch international
children’s advocacy group Kids Rights Foundation. She was
the first Pakistani girl to be nominated for the award. Her public
profile rose even further when she was awarded Pakistan’s first
National Youth Peace Prize two months later in December. On
19 December 2011, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza
Gillani awarded her the National Peace Award for Youth.

On 9 October 2012, a Taliban gunman shot Yousafzai as she

rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan’s Swat
Valley. The masked gunman shouted “Which one of you is Malala? Speak up,
otherwise, I will shoot you all”, and, on her being identified, shot at her. She was hit
with one bullet, which went through her head, neck, and ended on her shoulder. Two
other girls were also wounded in the shooting: Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, both of
whom were stable enough to speak to reporters and provide details of the attack.

On 12 July 2015, her 18th birthday, Yousafzai opened a school in the Bekaa Valley,
Lebanon, near the Syrian border, for Syrian refugees. The school, funded by the not-
for-profit Malala Fund, offers education and training to girls aged 14 to 18 years.
Yousafzai called on world leaders to invest in “books, not bullets”.

Scan the text and answer the following questions (1 point each):

1. To put or spend money on something ______ PROVIDE _________

2. The number of people who survive the attack _____ALL ( 3 PERSON)_______

3. Malala’s nationality _______ Pakistani __________
4. The year Malala opened a new school ______ On 12 July 2015_______
 Match the words in BOLD with their meaning (1 point each):

5. A fight or battle: _________ struggle ______________

6. A moral, ethical, or legal principle considered universal _______ right ________
7. A small piece of metal fired by a gun __________ bullet __________
8. To create _____ funded ________
9. The age Malala received the Nobel price ____ opened ________
10. To be fired with a gun ________ shoot __________

Say if the statements below are TRUE or FALSE (1 point each):

11. Only Malala received the Nobel prize in 2014 FALSE

12. Malala fights against children’s rights TRUE
13. Malala and her friends saw the face of the attacker FALSE
14. Malala’s friends were hurt TRUE
15. Malala opened a school in Syria FALSE