How Malala Yousafzai made Jon Stewart's jaw drop (VIDEO)

SOURCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/malala-jon-stewart_n_4073426.html

Jon Stewart isn’t easily impressed. But on Tuesday October 8, 2013, a 16-year-old left this sardonic late-show host speechless.

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Class discussion questions:

1. When did Malala realize the importance of education?
2. According to Malala, why are terrorists afraid of education?
3. When did the Taliban come to Swat Valley?
4. How did their behaviour change a few years later?
5. What gave Malala the courage to speak out publicly against the Taliban?
6. When did she realize that the Taliban had made her a target?
7. What does she say is the best way to fight violence?

Vocabulary

• If your jaw drops, you open your mouth in a way that shows you are very surprised or shocked. e.g. His jaw dropped  when he heard who had won.
• When you snatch something from somebody you take it away from them, esp. by force. e.g. She snatched  the toy from his hands.
• to blast something means to destroy something with a bomb or gun e.g. A powerful car bomb blasted  the building.
• to slaughter means to kill a lot of people in a violent way e.g. Thousands of people were slaughtered  in the civil war.  
• to flog someone means to hit someone very hard with a stick or whip as a punishment e.g. He was publicly flogged  for breaking the country's alcohol laws.
• When a person becomes a target, it means that someone is planning to attack them.

Now you can try the following quiz:

Malala leaves Jon Stewart speechless

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Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan activist, 14, shot in Swat (BBC News video)

Oct. 9 - Gunmen have wounded a 14-year-old rights activist who has campaigned for girls' education in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan.

Watch the video and answer the questions. Click on the heading below to view the questions alongside the video. If you click on "flip", you can see the answer to each question.



Alternatively, you can click on the image below to watch the video. Then answer the following questions.

 

1. What happened to the teenage girl? Why?
2. Is her life still in danger?
3. What did the Taliban announce in 2009?
4. How old was Malala then?
5. What did she do in reaction to this announcement?
6. Did she use her real name?
7. How did she feel while getting ready for school?
8. What did the head teacher advise the girls to do?
9. How many girls attended school that day?
10. According to the family friend, what will Malala do if she gets well?
11. Where is her family tonight?
12. How common are Taliban attacks in the area?
13. What will happen to the people who speak out against the militants?

TRANSCRIPT
REPORTER: Rushed away for treatment, the teenage girl who dared to defy the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head. Doctors say the next few days will be critical. This was Malala in her beloved classroom. When the Taliban tried to take it from her, she spread the news around the world. It was 2009 and the militants controlling the Swat Valley decreed that girls' schools must close. Malala, then just 11, started a blog for the BBC Urdu Service written under a pen name. This was one of her entries.
MALALA: I was very scared getting ready for school today because the Taliban announced that the girls should stop going. Our head teacher told us at assembly we shouldn't wear a school uniform and just come in normal clothes. Out of 27 girls only 11 attended class today.
REPORTER: After the militants were driven out, Malala was an outspoken campaigner for education for girls winning recognition at home and abroad. A family friend told us she will fight on if she makes a good recovery.
FAMILY FRIEND: She will continue to educate herself, she will continue to inspire others also... I don't think they are going to chicken out, I don't think they are going to surrender.
REPORTER: But the Taliban have threatened to target her again. They said she is western-minded and will not be spared. Tonight Malala remains in intensive care with her family at her bedside. Brutal Taliban attacks are nothing new here but the shooting of a child has caused shock and revulsion. The militants have said anyone else who speaks out against them, as Malala did, will be silenced. Orla Guerin, BBC News, Islamabad

VOCABULARY

• A militant is a person who is ready and willing to fight for a cause.
• If a leader or government decrees something, they officially decide or order it. e.g. The City Council has decreed that all dogs must be kept on a leash.
• A pen name is a name used by a writer instead of their real name.
• If you chicken out, you decide not to do something because you are afraid. (informal) e.g. He was going to ask her on a date, but he chickened out at the last minute.   
• When you surrender, you stop fighting because you know that you will not win. 
• A brutal attack is a violent and cruel attack. 
• Revulsion is a very strong feeling of dislike or disgust.  

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19891396

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China's 'left behind' children growing up without parents (BBC video)

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19787240
Oct. 1 - For many people in China, the mid-autumn festival and National Day holiday, falling within days of each other this year, means a week off work and a chance to spend time with friends and family.
But for millions of China's migrant workers, this is a working week like any other.
Many of them have young children back in their villages and do not see them for months or even years on end.
One Beijing organisation, the All China Women's Federation, estimates there are some 58m of these "left behind children".
This is the story of just one girl, Tang Xiaoqian from Anhui province in central China.

Click on the picture above to watch the video and answer the following questions.

1. How old is Tang Xiaoqian?
2. How long has it been since she last saw her mum and dad? 
3. What do she and her classmates have in common?
4. How old was she when her parents left home?
5. Where did they go? Why?
6. What does she do when she misses them?
7. Why does she cry when she talks about the speaking competition?
8. What are her plans for the future regarding her parents and her village? 

Alternatively, you can take the following quiz.

China s left behind children » online test

TRANSCRIPT
My name is Tang Xiaoqian. I'm eleven years old. I study at ... (name of village) primary school. And it's been eight years since I last saw my mum and dad. Almost all of my classmates are growing up without our parents. They are not at home for us. We are called 'left behind' children. When I was eight months old, my parents left home for Shanghai to find jobs. I live with my grandparents in the mountains. Every time it's New Year my parents say they are too busy to come home. When I miss them, I write a letter, fold it into a boat shape, put it in the river hoping it will reach my mum and dad. Once I represented my school in a public speaking competition in a nearby city. Other children had parents cheering for them. I was just by myself. I want to study hard and go to university one day. I will make a lot of money and buy a big house for my parents. Then we can be together every day. Although the mountains and rivers are beautiful, we can only be farmers here. That's why our parents have to leave to find jobs in big cities, like Shanghai and Beijing. They work very hard in the factories so we can go to school at home. When I grow up, I want to help turn my village into a city with big roads everywhere. I will open a big company and all the parents can come and work here. Then the children won't be separated from their mums and dads any more.

READ an article about China's 'Left-Behind Children'.

WATCH a relevant documentary (in three parts):
Rural China "Children Left Behind" Documentary (part 1 of 3)
Rural China "Children Left Behind" Documentary (part 2 of 3)
Rural China "Children Left Behind" Documentary (part 3 of 3)