COURS EN LIGNE 2024 - SECTION 1A

If The World Were 100 People | GOOD Data

GOAL : comment on a mute video, by describing it with your own words

Activity 1 - Statements and questions about the video

1/ There are more women than men in the world.

2/ Which age range do most people in the world fall into?

3/ List the five most commonly spoken languages featured in this video.

4/ In this scenario, one person controls ___% of all the money.

5/ It is more common to be overweight in the world than it is to be malnourished.

Activity 2 - Here are a few answers by students. Can you correct the mistakes ?

Student 1 : It was surprised to learnt that the ratio of overweigh peoples exceeded the malnourished while the mass medias focuses more on the malnourished led by the poverty than on the overweight caused by the stress and others factors.

Student 2 : In my opinion, it was that few people hold a lots of money, meanwhile, a lots of poors don't earn the enough to survived. It is not surprising, however, the large proportion of unegality between people is terrifying.

Student 3 : One could be overweigh and healthy just as one could be within the normal weigh range but unfit and unhealthy basing on cardiovascular measurement. Each individuals are unique. There are indeed many overlapped areas in this video.

Student 4 : I was most surprised that English is only the third most speaking language in the world, less that Mandarin which is the most speaking language, and Spanish is talking for more people than English is a surprise indeed.

Student 5 : The video show that on the world, the desiguality prevail...

ACTIVITY 3 - Now, take about 10-15 minutes to prepare an oral presentation about this video. Remember to...

rephrase and reorganise the contents in the synthesis

make a proper transition that shows the interest of your commentary

make a quality introduction (S.C.A) and a decent conclusion that will encourage questions from the other students.

If the world were 100 people: One video that explains how unequal the world is. 

'When you shrink the world's population down to 100 people, this is what you get’. If the world's population was shrunk down to 100 people, one person would control 50 per cent of the money, 15 would be malnourished and 13 would not have access to clean water.

Using public data, GOOD produced a video to illustrate how unequal the world is by imagining how the world would look if it was made up of 100 people.

Highlighting differences in health across the world, 15 people would be malnourished and one starving, while 21 would be overweight.

 In terms of income, 15 people would earn less than $2 a day and 56 between $2-10 per day.

By contrast, six people would make between $50-90 dollars a day, while one person would take home more than $90 per day. Overall, one person would control 50 per cent of all the money in the world.

The video also shows differences in education across the world, out of 100, 14 would be unable to read and 93 would not have attended college.

When it comes to quality of life, 13 people would have no access to clean water and 23 people would not have shelter. "If there world were 100 people," the video asks, "would we all fight harder for equality?"

GUIDELINES / INSTRUCTIONS

1/ Identify the main periods presented in the document, and list them in a chronology.

2/ Fill in a chart in order to make the understanding of this article clear and simple.

3/ According to you, what are the objectives of such an article ?

4/ Make a simple summary of the article, and make sure that you use your own words, not those of the author.

5/ Imagine you have to write an article about the evolution of mankind over the last 2000 years. What milestones would you choose in order to show the universality of mankind over the five continents ?

6/ Get ready for an oral presentation of the summary PLUS your own development. Remember that it will be clear if you make a proper introduction and conclusion, of course.

The great migration: how modern humans spread across the world (The Independent, 2023)

It was probably a warm interglacial interlude within the Ice Age, between about 130,000 and 90,000 years ago, that initially triggered large-scale Homo sapiens migrations across Africa.

Then, from about 70,000 years ago, the climate cooled, causing glaciers to form on the tops of mountain ranges so that parts of north-west and north-east Africa were cut off from each other, as well as from the south. As Charles Darwin discovered, whenever a species is physically separated, small variations begin to creep into its respective gene pools, creating diversity. So it was with modern man, giving us our four main ethnic groups: Khoisan (African), Caucasian (European), Mongolian (Chinese and American Indian) and Aboriginal (Australian).

From about 60,000 years ago, these four groups of humans emigrated from Africa separately and in their own time across the world, taking their small genetic differences with them. Some Homo sapiens swept across Asia, displacing the last of the Neanderthals either by depriving them of food, or by hunting them, or maybe occasionally by absorbing them into their own species through limited interbreeding. Some turned south and reached India and China. They learnt to build rafts. From about 40,000 years ago, Australia, for many millions of years the preserve of marsupial mammals, became another human hunting-ground, as the first people paddled ashore.

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in Europe walked eastwards out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, and then came north via the Middle East. They brought with them enormous changes in lifestyles, technology and culture, including the world's first spears that were specially designed for flight, rather than for close-range use as with Neanderthal-style clubs.

The time from about 50,000 years ago marks the start of the final second before midnight on the 24-hour clock of Earth history. This period has been described as "the Great Leap Forward", because the complexity of human tools increased dramatically. Bones, tusks and antlers were used for the first time to carve out ornaments as well as to craft useful household items such as needles for sewing, and spoon-like oil lamps that burned animal fats. Jewellery, in the form of necklaces and pendants, has been found buried inside graves of these people. The first ceramic pots date from this period, as do the world's first known sculptures, such as the Venus of Willendorf, a female fertility figure found in Austria in 1908 which is thought to date from about 24,000 years ago. Some of the first known cave paintings date back to the same era. They can be seen to this day in the caves of Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of France.

The Earth was far cooler back then. The last of the great ice sheets swept down from the North Pole about 22,000 years ago, to disappear rather quickly 12,000 years later. During this time some people adapted to the changes in climate by developing paler skin that helped produce sufficient quantities of vitamin D for bone formation despite the weaker sunlight of the Ice Age.

Homo sapiens arrived in Britain about 20,000 years ago. They walked across the Channel from France, since it didn't flood until the end of the last big Ice Age melt, about 10,000 years ago. But they weren't the first to arrive. Up to seven previous attempts were made by earlier people to populate the British Isles, starting with Homo erectus some 700,000 years ago. Each time, the populations of humans died out, probably because of the horrendously icy conditions that periodically swept over the islands as far south as present-day London. Even in the far south, the cold would sometimes have been too much for any type of human to bear.

About 15,000 years ago, giant glaciers still locked up much of the Earth's waters, sinking sea levels so that a massive land bridge the size of Poland, called Beringia, connected the eastern tip of Russia to Alaska across what is now a 95km-wide stretch of sea called the Bering Strait. In those days people could cross by foot from Asia to North America, a land that had until then probably been free from human habitation (although some scientists think people may have rafted there a few thousand years before from south Asia, via the Pacific islands). North and South America were the last of the great habitable continents to be populated by man, and are still appropriately called "the New World" even today. It was an opportunistic walk all the way across Asia, following big animals, hunting on the move, making the most of nature's twisting and turning climate changes.

With another land bridge via Panama linking the two great Americas, it wasn't long before the first people from North America wandered down to the southern American continent where the climate was warmer and the land rich in vegetation and game.

The arrival of Stone Age humans in this part of the world – as in Australia – came with dramatic consequences for much of the world's wildlife. Although a few of nature's ecosystems lingered on without any human representation – New Zealand and Iceland were untouched by humans until about AD800 or later – many of the world's living creatures were by now beginning to succumb to mankind's growing influence as he spread out to envelop the whole of planet Earth.

GUIDELINES / INSTRUCTIONS

1/ Identify the main periods presented in the document, and list them in a chronology.

2/ Fill in a chart in order to make the understanding of this article clear and simple.

3/ According to you, what are the objectives of such an article ?

4/ Make a simple summary of the article, and make sure that you use your own words, not those of the author.

5/ Imagine you have to write an article about the evolution of mankind over the last 2000 years. What milestones would you choose in order to show the universality of mankind over the five continents ?

6/ Get ready for an oral presentation of the summary PLUS your own development. Remember that it will be clear if you make a proper introduction and conclusion, of course.