1. 1)Look carefully at the picture. 2)In the boxes, write your ideas in answer to the questions: Who? What? When? Where? And why? 3)Try to come up with some of your own questions about the picture. Starter:

2. Who? What? When? Where? Why?

3. What do you WANT? What do you NEED?

4. Wants and Needs In your group, decide: Then: Decide on 4 items which you could discard which 6 cards show things we want which 6 cards show things we need

5. Which cards was it difficult to make a decision about? Why? WANTS NEEDS

6. FACTS ABOUT AFRICA…

7. Africa is the only continent to have become poorer in the last 25 years

8. 90% of all malaria cases are in sub-Saharan Africa Malaria kills over a million people a year

9. 3000 children die each day from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa

10. 17 million people have died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

11. 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost their parents to AIDS

12. The life expectancy of a child born in sub-Saharan Africa today is about 46 years European average: for men – 75 years for women – 81 years

13. 20% of African schoolchildren are AIDS orphans

14. 47% of Africa’s population is aged between 5 and 24 years old.

15. Only 29% of African children receive secondary education - and nearly all have to pay for it

16. 20% of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to electricity

17. Only 56% of people in sub- Saharan Africa have access to clean drinking water

18. 34% of the population of Africa is undernourished Undernourishment by country (% of population undernourished)

19. More than 1000 languages are spoken in Africa This map shows only SOME of them!

20. There are 3.5 million refugees in Africa

21. There are more people connected to the internet in New York City than in the whole of Africa

22. 40% of people in Africa over 15 years old are illiterate

23. 45% of the population of Africa live on less than $1 a day % of population living on less than $1 a day

25. Homework Look at the questions you wrote down about the image you studied at the start of the lesson. Choose one question that interests you (or come up with a new one). Your homework is to research the answer.