LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERSMALALA YOUSAFZAI
LinguaHouse
Jul. 16, 2022
Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Celebrities and Historical Figures; Education, Teaching and Learning; Historical Events; People and Places; Society and Change; 18+ Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 13-15 Years Old; Vocabulary and Grammar
Publication date: 07/16/2022
This audio-aided lesson tells the story of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (born in 1997). The lesson focuses on vocabulary, listening comprehension, and speaking and includes a short look at using tense in biographies. There is also an optional discussion extension activity about how educating girls benefits individuals and society (by Stephanie Hirschman).
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. Her father was a social activist and educator, and he named his daughter after a female hero who led the Afghan people to victory in an 1880 battle against the British.
Malala attended the girls’ school that her father had founded, but when the Swat Valley came under the control of the Taliban in 2007, the family, including her two younger brothers, had to leave. The Taliban are a political and religious group who follow a strict form of Islam. They do not believe that girls should attend school or that women should play an active part in society. Upon the family’s return in 2008, Malala gave her first public speech, called “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to an education?” As the Taliban continued with their violent campaign of closing and destroying girls’ schools, Malala started to blog for the BBC under a different name. During the next few years, she made two documentaries with a US filmmaker about the local situation and met with United Nations workers. Her activism attracted global attention, including a nomination from South African archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children’s Peace Prize.
On the ninth of October 2012, Malala was traveling home from school when a Taliban gunman got onto her bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” She was shot in the head and had to be transferred to the UK for medical care. She and her family stayed in that country with relatives, and she continued her studies there after she got better. She did not visit Pakistan again until 2018.
The Taliban’s violent actions led to a new international focus on and action for girls’ educational rights, and Malala’s work was right at the heart of these efforts. In 2013, on her sixteenth birthday, she gave a speech at the United Nations in New York. She was also named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year and published her life story, titled “I am Malala” - a response to the gunman’s question on the bus.
During this period, Malala worked hard to promote girls’ education around the world. In many countries, girls miss out on secondary education due to local conditions such as war, early marriage, having to work to support their family, and cost. The Malala Fund, set up in 2013, works in countries with low levels of female school attendance to train local workers to find ways to get more girls into school. It was for this work that she received the Nobel Peace prize in 2014 - the youngest ever winner. Malala has also opened a girls’ school in Lebanon for refugees from the Syrian Civil War.
Malala went to Oxford University and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, graduating in 2020. The following year, she married Asser Malik, who was working for the Pakistani Cricket Board. In 2022, Malala was working as a TV producer.
Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/malala-yousafzai. Accessed on July 18, 2022. © 2008–2022 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.
Publication date: 07/16/2022
This audio-aided lesson tells the story of Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (born in 1997). The lesson focuses on vocabulary, listening comprehension, and speaking and includes a short look at using tense in biographies. There is also an optional discussion extension activity about how educating girls benefits individuals and society (by Stephanie Hirschman).
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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Malala Yousafzai was born in 1997 in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan. Her father was a social activist and educator, and he named his daughter after a female hero who led the Afghan people to victory in an 1880 battle against the British.
Malala attended the girls’ school that her father had founded, but when the Swat Valley came under the control of the Taliban in 2007, the family, including her two younger brothers, had to leave. The Taliban are a political and religious group who follow a strict form of Islam. They do not believe that girls should attend school or that women should play an active part in society. Upon the family’s return in 2008, Malala gave her first public speech, called “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to an education?” As the Taliban continued with their violent campaign of closing and destroying girls’ schools, Malala started to blog for the BBC under a different name. During the next few years, she made two documentaries with a US filmmaker about the local situation and met with United Nations workers. Her activism attracted global attention, including a nomination from South African archbishop Desmond Tutu for the International Children’s Peace Prize.
On the ninth of October 2012, Malala was traveling home from school when a Taliban gunman got onto her bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” She was shot in the head and had to be transferred to the UK for medical care. She and her family stayed in that country with relatives, and she continued her studies there after she got better. She did not visit Pakistan again until 2018.
The Taliban’s violent actions led to a new international focus on and action for girls’ educational rights, and Malala’s work was right at the heart of these efforts. In 2013, on her sixteenth birthday, she gave a speech at the United Nations in New York. She was also named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year and published her life story, titled “I am Malala” - a response to the gunman’s question on the bus.
During this period, Malala worked hard to promote girls’ education around the world. In many countries, girls miss out on secondary education due to local conditions such as war, early marriage, having to work to support their family, and cost. The Malala Fund, set up in 2013, works in countries with low levels of female school attendance to train local workers to find ways to get more girls into school. It was for this work that she received the Nobel Peace prize in 2014 - the youngest ever winner. Malala has also opened a girls’ school in Lebanon for refugees from the Syrian Civil War.
Malala went to Oxford University and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, graduating in 2020. The following year, she married Asser Malik, who was working for the Pakistani Cricket Board. In 2022, Malala was working as a TV producer.
Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/malala-yousafzai. Accessed on July 18, 2022. © 2008–2022 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.
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