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Identity and Diversity

Identity and Diversity. Starter – Team Quiz. In your teams, complete the following quiz What do you know about the United Kingdom ?. 1. The total population of the UK is: (a) Less than 20 million (b) About 50 million (c) About 60 million (d) 100 million

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Identity and Diversity

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  1. Identity and Diversity

  2. Starter – Team Quiz • In your teams, complete the following quiz What do you know about the United Kingdom ?

  3. 1. The total population of the UK is: (a) Less than 20 million (b) About 50 million (c) About 60 million (d) 100 million 2. The term ‘United Kingdom’ includes: (a) England, Wales, Scotland. (b) England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. (c) England, Wales, Scotland and the Scottish Isles. (d) England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland 3. About 87% of the total population is white: (a) True (b) False 4. Welsh is spoken by most of the population of Wales: (a) True (b) False 5. Life expectancy for women is: (a) five years more than for men (b) ten years more than for men (c) five years less than for men (d) about the same as for men

  4. 6. The number of people living below the poverty line in the UK is: (a) 50% (b) 17% (c) 25% (d) 20% 7. The number of mobile phones in use in the country is: (a) nearly 50 million (b) 100 million (c) less than 10 million (d) about 75 million 8. What percentage of the UK population has internet access?: • 53% (b) 87% (c) 42% (d) 95% 9. At its height, the British Empire covered about 10% of the earth’s surface: • True (b) False 10. The correct name for the flag is: (a) Blue Ensign (b) Union Jack (c) Union Crosses (d) Union Flag

  5. ANSWERS Q1 = C. 61.4 million Q2 = D. England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland Q3 = True. 87.1% Q4 = False. 19% Q5 = A. 5 years longer Q6 = D. 20% Q7 = D. 75.7 million Q8 = B = 87% Q9 = B. False. It was 25% Q10 = B & D. Both are correct!

  6. Working in pairs….. Using the hand-out provided, work in pairs to identify 5 things that you didn’t know before you read the article. List these in your exercise books. Now consider….. • Are there any recurring items that people have listed? • Why might these be little known?

  7. Who are the British?Ask us, and you will find that we dance to music fromAmerica, Africa and Asia; we eat food from Ireland,Italy and Jamaica; we speak more than three hundredlanguages and we know over four hundred differentways to cook a potato. We look Celtic, Arab andBengali; we wear kilts, saris and football shorts; and ifyou get very close to us and look right into our eyes,you can almost see the history of the whole world.This book takes a poetic look at thirteen young Britishpeople as they work, rest and play. None of thesechildren want to live in a world where everybody lookslike them; they are all ready to embrace amulticultural, multicoloured land where every child isequal and all children have a poem to call their own. IfBritain is going to be great in the future, it will bebecause these kids want curry and chips, mangoesand strawberries and banana crumble, and they thinkof all these as British.The British are not a single tribe, or a single religion,and we don’t come from a single place. But we arebuilding a home where we are all able to be who wewant to be, yet still be British.That is what we do: we take, we adapt, and we moveforward.We are the British. We are Britain. Benjamin Zephaniah

  8. Group work • Work in small groups to list the benefits of living in a multicultural society. • Use this list to write a speech/poem/rap which celebrates the diversity in the UK.

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