Starter quiz
- Which of these photographs shows a city?
A ✓
B
C
- Put these settlement types in order, from smallest to largest.
- 1⇔village
- 2⇔town
- 3⇔city
- What are similarities?
- things that are not the same when compared with other things
- things that are the same when compared with other things ✓
- things that don't look like something else
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- What are differences?
- things that are not the same when compared with other things ✓
- things that sound like something else
- things that are the same when compared with other things
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- We all have some ______ to others and some differences from others.
- 'similarities ' ✓
- Match the following example places to the type of place they are.
- Africa⇔a continent ✓
- Tanzania⇔a country ✓
- Arusha⇔a city ✓
Exit quiz
- Where is Arusha located in Tanzania?
- to the north ✓
- to the south
- to the east
- to the west
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- Who does Zahra live with?
- her brother, sister, mother and father ✓
- her brothers, mother and father
- her mother, father and grandparents
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- Where does Zahra live?
- in the city centre of Arusha
- in Dar es Salaam
- in a village just outside Arusha ✓
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- How many children are in Zahra’s class at school?
- 25
- 45 ✓
- 65
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- The life of every child in Tanzania will be __________ Zahra’s life.
- the same as
- both similar to and different from ✓
- different from
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- The life of every pupil in our school will be __________ Zahra’s life.
- completely different from
- both similar to and different from ✓
- completely the same as
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Daily life in Arusha can be investigated using pictures and written sources of information.
- There are many ways in which our lives are the same as, but also different from, other people’s lives.
- There are similarities and differences between a child’s life in Arusha and my own life.
Common misconception
Learners may think that the life of every child in Tanzania (and Africa) is like the life of Zahra.
Spend more time discussing the similarities and differences between people in the UK to help learners appreciate that there will be many similarities and differences in people's lives both within and between countries and places.
Keywords
City - A city is a settlement that is usually larger than a town and has local government.
Village - A village is a small group of houses where people live.
Similarities - Similarities are the things that are the same when compared with others.
Differences - Differences are the things that are not the same when compared with others.
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