100 people is a global project that tries to draw students' attention to global issues (water, food, economy, health, education, energy, war, and so on). To do so, they have come up with a clever idea: Everything they deal with, each problem, each data is correlated to the number 100. That way it is far easier for everybody to figure out the real dimensions of the topics under discussion.
100 people invites schools and educators from all over the world to join their project. Here it is the trailer, where the objectives and the how-to are clearly stated.
Self-study activity:
Get together with an English speaking friend or relative and before watching the clip, try to predict what the statistics for the information below might be.
You can revise the pronunciation of would on this blog entry.
If the World were 100 people, there would be ...
___ females / ___ males / ___ children / ___ adults / ___ Asians / ___ Europeans / ___ Africans / ___ Christians / ___ Muslims / ___ Hindus / ___ Buddhist / ___ speak Chinese / ___ speak English / ___ speak Spanish / ___ would not be able to read or write / ___ would own a computer / ___ would be dying of starvation / ___ would be overweight
You can also watch Carolyn Jones introducing the project on 100 People: Video Lesson Plan.
And remember there are lots of video for you to watch on the 100 people site.
H/T to DDeubel.
