Starter quiz
- What is an activist? Choose the best definition.
- a person who researches about politics
- a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change ✓
- a person who writes books about politics
- a lawyer who fights for people's rights in a court of law
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- An anecdote is a short ______ about someone's life.
- 'story' ✓
- Match each keyword to the correct definition.
- audience⇔a group of people who watch and listen to a performance or speaker ✓
- provoke⇔to stir up feelings or emotions ✓
- empathise⇔to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes ✓
- persuade⇔to convince or to make someone agree with you ✓
- Fill in the blanks in the following sentence: An audience __________ and __________ to a speech.
- watches; actively listens ✓
- watches; passively listens
- watches; never listens
- watches; hardly listens
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- True or false? Gender equality is about making sure that people's rights and opportunities are affected by what gender they are.
- True
- False ✓
- True or false? Some children in the world shouldn't have the right to an education.
- True
- False ✓
Exit quiz
- In which country was Malala Yousafzai born?
- India
- China
- Iran
- Pakistan ✓
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- What age was Malala Yousafzai when she started campaigning for children's rights to education?
- 10
- 11 ✓
- 12
- 14
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- Which prestigious and famous prize did Malala Yousafzai win at the age of 14?
- 'Nobel Peace Prize' ✓
- Malala Yousafzai has fought tirelessly for children's ______ to education.
- 'rights' ✓
- What is an advocate?
- someone who speaks up for or supports a cause, idea or person ✓
- someone who writes about the life of someone important
- the person who decides who wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- a politician who works for the government
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- Select the word family derived from the word humour.
- funny, entertaining, jovial
- unfunny, hostile, serious
- humorous, humorously, humorist ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A speaker can use humour to build a relationship with an audience.
- Telling anecdotes in a speech can help an audience to feel connected to a speaker.
- Malala Yousafzai is an activist and actively campaigns for children's rights to education and women's rights worldwide.
- She is also a humanitarian, advocate and public speaker, who was the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Common misconception
Pupils may not know about the differences in children's rights to education around the world.
Ensure that before beginning this lesson, you have developed pupils' understanding of how children's rights to education are different around the world. You could use PSHE sessions to explore this in more depth.
Keywords
Anecdotes - short stories from a person's real life
Advocate - someone who speaks up for or supports a cause, idea or person
Activist - a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change
Humour - the quality of being funny or amusing
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