Week 2: Apr 28-2
What is hunger?
Learning objectives
Students read various texts to find answers to questions |
Students decide which out of two texts has more useful information to help them answer the questions |
Students find information in a numerical table and use it to understand what a child needs to eat every day |
Keyword/Key vocabulary
Food pyramids, necessity, luxury, pie chart
Activity 1
what a kcal unit ?
Look at exercise 1 and analyse the table – How many calories a day do you need, according to the information?
Explain to the class this is just an average and should not be followed!
Explain that other factors come into play when discussing calories and it is not a measure of how healthy someone is !
Avocados have more calories than Nutella but they are healthier
Activity 2
Read the text : exercise 2 and 3
Discuss the difference between hunger and hungry
Ask the class do we suffer a hunger problem, or a hungry problem worldwide and why do we suffer this problem?
Activity 3
Worksheet 5.4
How are we dealing with hunger?
Learning objectives
Students use information in bar charts to answer questions about global hunger |
Students find information in texts to answer questions |
Students can identify which answer suits which question |
Activity 1
Investigate global hunger.
Look at the bar chart in activity 1 as a class. Choose different years and ask students to tell you the % of the population that did not have food in that year. Ask: Were more or fewer people hungry around the world in 2016 than in 2014? What about in 2018 and 2019?
Activity 2 (
Look at the second bar chart
Does it support or oppose the information in the bar chart in activity 1?
What extra info does it tell us about hunger around the world?
Activity 3
The class will set into groups of 4.
Each group will be sent out of the classroom while the answer card will be hidden on different tables.
The students will have to find the answers to the following questions on a piece of paper. Each group will have 10 min.
Worksheet 5.5 Questions are:
Who or what is the GHI?
Why is the number 10 important?
Why is the number 47 important?