Unit 1 Changing the World: Reading

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Date: Worksheet #______

Learning Outcome: The student will be able to read authentic texts critically, systematically and autonomously

Design for change: Ideas that changed the world

New Vocabulary Change - Design Feel - Imagine Do - Develop Share - Implement Driver of change - helpless bothered New Language
What? Where? Who? Why?

I can

I Can!
Design for Change is the largest global movement designed by Kiran Bir Sethi to give children an opportunity to express their own ideas for a better world and put them into action. Children and adults learn through Design for Change that I Can are the two most powerful words in the world. For the past several years, Sethi has been using design thinking to develop solutions to some of

the most urgent social problems in India. In 2011, the idea of I Can change the world was implemented in over 30 countries, inspiring over 300 000 children.
Design for Change developed a simple design process that enabled children to become drivers of change. The process is: to FEEL (any issue that bothered them), IMAGINE (a way to make it better), DO ( I Can, implement the act of change) and SHARE (make it visible). Children designed solutions and implemented acts of change for over 20 various problems across the world like: social evils, environment, education, alcohol, child labour, floods, traffic, discrimination, etc. Not only did DFC impact the children but also the lives of the teachers and the community. The children changed the perception in the minds of the adults from being helpless to becoming drivers of change through the I can thinking.

Unit 1 Changing the World: Reading

STEP 1: PRE-READING Purpose:

1. Underline the expressions I can that appear in the text, and count them. 2. Underline the following words in the text in all the different forms they appear. Change Design Develop Do Feel Imagine Share Implement

3. Look quickly at the whole text and predict what the text is about. You have 15 seconds to do this.

STEP 2: WHILE-READING Purpose: To understand the general from the text and identify specific information.
a) True and False: Read the text and answer True (T) or False (F). Correct the false statements: 1. _______ The text is about how a woman changed the whole world. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. _______ The ideas for change are only implemented in India. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. _______ Children think in different ideas to change different social problems. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. _______ The process is imagine, feel, share and do. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. _______ The impact of Design for Change is also in the community. _______________________________________________________________________________________ b) Match the question words and answers. ____What? ____Where? ____Who? ____Why? a) To develop solutions to some of the most urgent social problems in the world. b) In over 30 countries. c) Children and adults. d) Over 20 various problems across the world

c) According to the text mach the key word with the process of Design for Change: 1) Do 2) Imagine
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___ think in any issue that bothered them. ___ think in a way to make it better

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3) Share 4) Feel

___ implement the act of change ___ make it visible for others.

STEP 3: POST-READING Purpose: To use the information extracted in the previous sections.
1. In a trio FEEL, think in one problem that you would like to change. It can be at school or in your community. You have 5 minutes. 2. Draw a mind map with your trio based on the steps of design for change (FEEL, IMAGINE, DO and SHARE) 3. In each box below, one word is not a synonym. Which one? Circle.
INVENT CREATE THINK DISBELIEVE

DESIG N
ORIGINATE GIVE

MAKE

MANAGE

KEEP

MODIFY

FEEL
CONSIDER PERCEIVE

DO
FAIL WORK

4. I can

CHANG CONVERT E TRANSFORM

a) Read the following change the world using

example and present three ideas that can the structure:

I can change the world recycling 1_____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2_____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3_____________________________________________________________________________________________