Saving Children’s LivesEnglish activitiesLesson 1

ObjectivesTo be able to retrieve informationTo be able to recognise features of a media text

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Starter

• Look at the picture on the board. Write two sentences that you might expect to find next to it if you saw it in a newspaper or magazine.

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Read over the text and then ask students to answer the questions.

Answer the following questions: • How does Save the Children feel about so many

children dying each year? Write it in your own words if possible.

• What sort of people might be good to help make changes to this problem?

• What do you think could be the difference between short- term and long-term solutions?

• Why do you think the charity believes it’s important for children to get an education? Write down three reasons.

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What features would children want

if they were reading something?

Big writing!

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• What features are there on this page that would be suitable for children?

• http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay/jointhefight.php

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Your task

• Use the ideas in the article• Ideas from the webpage• Your own ideas

• Create a mini leaflet for people, telling them about Save the Children

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How your leaflet could look

Information about Save the Children

Paragraph about the campaign

Picture

Title

How do you feel & why?

In what ways might a media text be different if it was aimed at adults?