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Unit 24 Lesson 3

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Unit 24 Lesson 3
The rootless
Objectives: BY the end of lesson you will have
• looked at different pictures and answered questions based on them
• read a data sheet and written a paragraph based on it
• written another paragraph giving personal ideas/opinion about life and personal choices
Function: asking / answering questions, giving opinions
A Work in pairs. Look at these pictures. Ask and answer these questions about each picture.



Picture

B Divide into small groups. Each group will take different picture. Think about these questions:
Why are they doing this? Why do these situations arise?
To answer these questions read the Data sheet that follows. Discuss and then one student will write the answer on behalf of the group. One example is given for you.

Data sheet (1)
1 No. of people living below the poverty line about 50 %
2 Age O - 15 population 42%
3 Size of civilian labour force 56 million

4 No. of child labours 5.8 million
5 No, of children not enrolled in primary schools 11% of the total labour force
6 Dropout rate ( primary level)
20% male, 27% female
7 No. of children suffering from malnutrition
More than 15%
80%
8 Size of urban population
2 million in 1950, 25 million in 1996

9 Rate of increase in the urban population caused by rural-to-urban migration
65%
10 Size of population in Dhaka City
8 million in 1996, 20 million in 2015 (projected)
11 No. of slums in Dhaka City
3000
12 No. of rickshaws in Dhaka City about 500,000(2)



Example paragraph (picture 1) (a probable story)
These two girls aged about 10-11 look malnourished. They are from a village. Their parents, landless and jobless, had to migrate to the city just to make a living. Now they have found a shelter in a slum. The male members of their family are either rickshaw-pullers or day-labourers or do some small businesses. The female members work as part-time or full-lime housemaids in the neighbourhood. These girls do not go to school, or if they do, they go to an underprivileged children's school or a non-formal education centre. They have to earn something to supplement the family income before or after school. They do not know what they will do in future.

Note that in writing a paragraph about picture I, the following items of the data sheet were useful: Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11.
1 Source: Population and Development: post- ICPD Achievements and Challenges in Bangladesh, published by: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh. Dhaka, 2000.
2 Source: The Daily Star. Dhaka. 28 April 2000.

C Write a paragraph based on the content of a picture from the one you worked on in B above. In your paragraph try to give your opinions on how most of these people
- suffer from hunger, malnutrition and diseases.
- live in unhygienic conditions and in an atmosphere of lawlessness and violence and
- could be exploited-in society when they get involved in drug use, child-trafficking, etc and in activities like mugging , stealing, hijaking an the like.
- could be helped.






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