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EDA N° 03

Let’s celebrate diversity!*

Actividad N°03 A STORY ABOUT DIVERSITY

LET’S SELF-ASSESS!
¿Cuánto sabes comunicar en inglés sobre la discriminación? Example:

Al escribir un testimonio en NO Sí, pero Sí Sí puedo Ethnic/racial discrimination: _______

inglés: necesito y muy
ayuda bien
1 Can I understand a 1. Disability discrimination _
story in English
about a person who
faced
2. Body size discrimination _______
discrimination?
3. Gender discrimination _______
2 Can I use the
simple past to write 4. Economic discrimination _________
a story in
English about a
personwho was A B
discriminated
against?

3 Can I connect
events in a story in
English using
sequence words?

4 Can I pronounce
words well and use C D
appropriate
intonation when I
read a story about
discrimination in
English?

LET’S OBSERVE AND READ!

OBSERVE - EXERCISE 1
E
Complete the missing boxes with the correct ordinal number.
Use the words from the box below“LOOK AND COMPLETE!
Follow the examples:

“Discrimination is when a person is treated

differently(not in a good way) because of Read the following definition2 and look at the three examples:
some aspect of their identity.”

Kidshelpline Stereotypes are ideas or beliefs

that people have about someone or
something,especially an idea that is
wrong.
Camb
ridge
Dictio
Stereotypes can be hurtful
naryand
OBSERVE - EXERCISE 1 can impede our success.

Match the type of discrimination with the correct image. Follow

the example:
 OBSERVE - EXERCISE 2
Match the type of discrimination with the correct stereotype. Number one is the example:

TYPE OF DISCRIMINATION STEREOTYPE

A. People think she is lazy because

All teenagers are rebels she is fat.
1. Ethnic/ racial discrimination

B. People think she is bad at science

2. Disability discrimination because she is a girl.

C. People think he is a criminalbecause

3. Body size discrimination
he is black.
All girls are bad at science

4. Gender discrimination D. People think she doesn’t belong atthe

party because she was poor.

5. Economic discrimination
E. People think she can’t
workbecause she has a
disability.
All boys are messy.

UNDERSTAND - EXERCISE 2
Complete the charts with the correct information about Gina and Bruno accoding to their stories.Follow the example:

This is Jose. His parents are poor farmersand they work

hard to send their son to a new schoolin the city. He doesn’t
have any friends because people think he is dishonest and EXAMPLE:
jealous of them. But, Jose is a noble andkind person.
This is Gina. She is a 14-year-old girl witha speech disorder.
People thinks she is shy, fragile and incapable of doing • Type of discrimination Ethnic and economic discrimination.
anything by herself. Gina feels useless. One day, Gina stands
up and says that she wants to bethe delegate of the class!
Then, she says that she is capable of doing many things and People thought he was dishonest and jealous
• Stereotype
that she doesn’t like to be treated like a child. After that, she because he was poor.
becomes the class delegate and does a great job. Finally,
everyone realize that she is a smart and responsible girl.
This is Bruno. He is a 15-year-old boy wholoves to dance • Qualities People realized that he was a noble and kind person.
ballet. The boys think he was weird and too delicate
because they think that ballet was only for girls. He won an
important dancing competition. Then, they realized that
Bruno was very determined andhardworking and that ballet
was hard. Later on, they discovered that Bruno was a very
compassionate, fun and loyal friend.

• Type of discrimination ____________________________ • Type of discrimination ____________________________

• Stereotype • Stereotype
____________________________ ____________________________

• Qualities • Qualities ____________________________

____________________________

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 PRACTISE – EXERCISE 2
UNDERSTAND – EXERCISE 3
Put Miguel’s story in the correct order by writing numbers
from 1 to 5 and then write the moral of thestory. Follow the
example:
In English, we call the central message of a story the “moral of the
story”. Write a J (for José’s story), a G (for Gina’s story) or a B (for
Bruno’s story) for each of the following morals we can learn from their
stories. Follow the example:

PRACTISE – EXERCISE 1

Complete the story by putting the verbs in blanks in the present

tense. Follow the example:

BE THINK HAVE WANT FEEL DO REALIZE

What is the moral of Miguel´s story?

_______________________________
Mariel _ a heavy girl in school, and people ____________that

she is lazy and had unhealthy habits.

When the students to make groups in class, no These are some examples of sequence words:

• After that ( después de aquello)

one ____________to work with Mariel and she 4
• Later on (más tarde)
(feel) lonely and discriminated.
• One day (un día)
One day, the students 5 (do) a • The next day (al siguiente día)
• Then (luego)
presentation on their daily meals. Then, they 6
• Finally (this one usually goes with the last event)
(realize) that Mariel is really responsible with her meals and

that she exercises often. Mariel is just a little heavy, but she is

not lazy or unhealthy at all.