Worksheet 4 Goal 4
Quality education “It is important to learn to read, write and count. Everyone deserves a quality education in order to succeed in life.”
Education is very important. It is one of the main ways to eradicate hunger and poverty in the world. Currently, there are still many boys and girls in the world who cannot go to primary school. For girls, the situation is even more difficult. Malala Yousafza, the Nobel Peace Prize winner (2014), is an example of this serious problem. Malala is a great civil rights activist, especially for women’s rights in the Swat River Valley, where the Taliban regime does not allow girls access to education.
1 Match the parts of the sentences to find out more about Malala. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Malala is from Pakistan In 2009 she created a blog for the BBC In 2012 she was on the bus on her way home from school After the terrorist attack, Malala was treated The attack against Malala produced In 2014 Malala was awarded Malala is the youngest person
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a about the life of a student living under the Taliban regime. b an international solidarity movement. c the Nobel Peace Prize together with the Indian children’s rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi. d but today she lives in the United Kingdom. e at a hospital in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. f ever to receive a Nobel Prize. g when a man shot her.
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Worksheet 4
Quality education
Ensuring free and quality education is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda. Education empowers people with knowledge and can help develop innovative and creative solutions to the planet’s problems.
2 The story of William Kamkwamba is remarkable! Do you want to find out about him? Complete the following text with the missing words.
life • cultivate • home • science • father • food • energy • bicycle • world • money economic • film • problem • water Between 2000 and 2002 Malawi suffered a serious (1) _________________ of drought. The population could not (2) _________________ the land because there was no water. As a consequence, they had no (3) _________________ to eat. During this period, William’s family began to have serious (4) _________________ problems and they could no longer pay his school tuition fees. So, William couldn’t go to school and had to stay at (5) _________________. But he didn’t give up; William loved school and continued to study in secret with the help of his (6) _________________ teacher and the librarian. One day at the library, he discovered an interesting book about the use of (7) _________________ and he decided to build a windmill to extract (8) _________________ from the earth in order to irrigate the fields. William collected the scrap parts for his windmill from a landfill and he had to convince his (9) _________________ to invest the little money he had to buy the last part he needed: a dynamo from a (10) _________________. Thanks to his determination, his desire to learn and his perseverance, he managed to change the (11) _________________ of his family, his neighbours and his own destiny. His story became famous and he received (12) _________________ to pay for his university education. In 2013, TIME magazine described him as “one of the people under 30 changing the (13) _________________ “. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a (14) _________________ that premiered in 2019. It tells the true story of William Kamkwamba. empowers drought tuition fees stay give up © ELI Publishing - Photocopiable
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