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Malnutrition goals in Africa 'very far away' (3rd March, 2018)

The Reading / Listening - Malnutrition - Level 6

A new report shows that no country in Africa will meet goals set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was set by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a set of goals, "to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is published in the journal Nature. It identifies poor child nutrition and low levels of education across 51 African countries. These were key factors in countries battling to provide children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal of ending childhood malnutrition was always an "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."

There was some good news in the report. It highlighted the fact that many African nations, including Ghana and Nigeria, have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a different story for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report indicates that malnutrition remained "persistently high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have experienced war, famine and mass migration, all of which have put massive strains on health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was needed in health and infrastructure in order to address "serious inequalities".

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

Malnutrition - Level 4 or Malnutrition - Level 5

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/mar/01/no-african-country-will-end-child-malnutrition-by-2030-says-study
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43173614
http://www.africanews.com/2018/02/19/millions-of-africans-suffering-from-malnutrition-as-effects-of-climate-change/

Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice, drag and drop activities, crosswords, hangman, flash cards, matching activities and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Warm-ups

1. MALNUTRITION: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about malnutrition. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?
report / goals / target / poverty / development / agenda / journal / education / far /
childhood / story / malnutrition / west / east / war / famine / migration / health
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
3. NO HUNGER: Students A strongly believe there will be no hunger in the world one day; Students B strongly believe that will never happen. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.
4. DEVELOPMENT GOALS: How can we achieve these goals? What obstacles ere there? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

Goals	How to achieve this	Obstacles
End poverty
Ensure prosperity
Provide education
Provide clean water
Reduce inequality
Reduce child labour

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5. CHILDHOOD: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "childhood". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
6. STRAINS: Rank these with your partner. Put the biggest strains on a country at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

poor education
lawlessness
inflation
ethnic tensions
famine
war
mass migration
corruption

Vocabulary

Paragraph 1

1.	adopted	a.	The state of being extremely poor.
2.	poverty	b.	Of great and crucial importance.
3.	ensure	c.	The state of being rich.
4.	prosperity	d.	Make certain that something will happen or be so.
5.	key	e.	Taken up or started to use or follow an idea, method, or course of action.
6.	sufficient	f.	A hope or ambition of achieving something.
7.	aspiration	g.	Enough.

Paragraph 2

8.	highlighted	h.	Very, very, very big.
9.	indicates	i.	Pick out and emphasize for others to easily see or understand.
10.	persistently	j.	Movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions.
11.	famine	k.	Unfair differences in society based on gender, race, income, etc.
12.	migration	l.	Continuously; happening all the time.
13.	massive	m.	Extreme scarcity / lack of food.
14.	inequalities	n.	Shows.

Before reading / listening

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).

A report says just a few African countries will meet malnutrition goals. T / F
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals were set in 2015. T / F
A report said 51 African countries suffered from low levels of education. T / F
A researcher suggested the malnutrition target was more of a hope. T / F
There was no good news regarding Nigeria and Ghana. T / F
The report said there was persistently high malnutrition in 41 nations. T / F
Many of the countries mentioned have suffered from war and famine. T / F
A researcher said increasing investment in infrastructure would not help. T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

shows
set (verb)
set (noun)
key
aspiration
highlighted
improvement
persistently
massive
address

singled out
deal with
hope
advances
decided on
crucial
enormous
reveals
continuously
group

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

meet goals set to
ensure prosperity
low levels
provide children
always an aspirational
It highlighted
malnutrition remained persistently
experienced war, famine and
considerable investment
address serious

mass migration
target
high in 14 countries
inequalities
was needed in health
of education
the fact
with sufficient food
end childhood malnutrition
for all

Gap fill

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

set
provide
published
aspiration
prosperity
goal
meet
levels

A new report shows that no country in Africa will (1) ____________ goals set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was (2) ____________ by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a set of goals, "to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure (3) ____________ for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is (4) ____________ in the journal Nature. It identifies poor child nutrition and low (5) ____________ of education across 51 African countries. These were key factors in countries battling to (6) ____________ children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the (7) ____________ of ending childhood malnutrition was always an "aspirational" target. He said: "This (8) ____________ is very, very far away."

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

indicates
massive
including
persistently
highlighted
address
different
famine

There was some good news in the report. It (9) ____________ the fact that many African nations, (10) ____________ Ghana and Nigeria, have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a (11) ____________ story for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report (12) ____________ that malnutrition remained "(13) ____________ high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have experienced war, (14) ____________ and mass migration, all of which have put (15) ____________ strains on health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was needed in health and infrastructure in order to (16) ____________ "serious inequalities".

Listening — Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1) A new report shows that no country in Africa ______
     a. will met goals
     b. will mete goals
     c. will meet goals
     d. will meat goals
2) protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable ______
     a. development agendas
     b. development addendum
     c. development addenda
     d. development agenda
3) It identifies poor child nutrition and ______ education
     a. lowish levels of
     b. low levels of
     c. lol levels of
     d. lowly levels of
4) These were key factors in countries battling to provide children ______
     a. with insufficient food
     b. with sufficiently food
     c. with insufficiently food
     d. with sufficient food
5) the goal of ending childhood malnutrition was always an ______
     a. as per rational target
     b. ass pyre rational target
     c. aspirational target
     d. aspire a rational target

6) many African nations, including Ghana and Nigeria, have ______ improvement
     a. showing signs of
     b. show on signs of
     c. show in signs of
     d. shown signs of
7) However, it is a different story for countries like Chad, Central African ______
     a. Republican and Eritrea
     b. Republicans and Eritrea
     c. Republicanism and Eritrea
     d. Republic and Eritrea
8) The report indicates that malnutrition remained "______"
     a. persistently high
     b. persistence high
     c. persistent lee high
     d. persistence lee high
9) Many of these countries have experienced war, famine and ______
     a. masses migration
     b. amass migration
     c. mass migration
     d. amassed migration
10) investment was needed in health and infrastructure in order to ______ inequalities
     a. addresses serious
     b. addressed serious
     c. address serious
     d. addressing serious

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

A new report shows that no country in Africa (1) ___________________ set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was set by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a (2) ___________________, "to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all (3) ___________________ a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is published in the journal Nature. It identifies poor child nutrition (4) ___________________ of education across 51 African countries. These were key factors in countries (5) ___________________ children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal of ending childhood malnutrition (6) ___________________ "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."

There was some good news in the report. It (7) ___________________ that many African nations, including Ghana and Nigeria, have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a different (8) ___________________ like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The (9) ___________________ malnutrition remained "persistently high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have experienced (10) ___________________ mass migration, all of which have put (11) ___________________ health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was needed in health and infrastructure in (12) ___________________ "serious inequalities".

Comprehension questions

When were the malnutrition goals to be met by?
When were the Sustainable Development Goals set?
What did the goals aim to ensure?
In how many countries were there reported low levels of education?
What did a researcher say was "very, very far away"?
Which two countries were singled out for good news?
In how many countries was malnutrition "persistently high"?
What kind of migration did the report say countries had experienced?
What did a researcher say was there was a massive strain on?
What did a researcher say was needed?

Multiple choice quiz

1) When were the malnutrition goals to be met by?
a) 2040
b) 2030
c) 2080
d) 2050
2) When were the Sustainable Development Goals set?
a) 2010
b) 2012
c) 2014
d) 2015
3) What did the goals aim to ensure?
a) prosperity
b) property
c) properly
d) propellers
4) In how many countries were there reported low levels of education?
a) 31
b) 41
c) 51
d) 61
5) What did a researcher say was "very, very far away"?
a) malnutrition
b) an aspiration
c) the next meal
d) Africa

6) Which two countries were singled out for good news?
a) Ghana and Nigeria
b) Nigeria and Eritrea
c) Eritrea and Somalia
d) Somalia and Senegal
7) In how many countries was malnutrition "persistently high"?
a) 12
b) 13
c) 14
d) 15
8) What kind of migration did the report say countries had experienced?
a) mass migration
b) immigration
c) emigration
d) varied migration
9) What did a researcher say was there was a massive strain on?
a) health and agriculture
b) education and hospitals
c) the UN
d) African countries
10) What did a researcher say was needed?
a) charity
b) rain
c) seeds
d) investment

Role play

Role A – Famine
You think famine is the biggest obstacle to development. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what their things aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the most manageable of these (and why): mass migration, corruption or inflation.

Role B – Mass Migration
You think mass migration is the biggest obstacle to development. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what their things aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the most manageable of these (and why): famine, corruption or inflation.

Role C – Corruption
You think corruption is the biggest obstacle to development. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what their things aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the most manageable of these (and why): mass migration, famine or inflation.

Role D – Inflation
You think inflation is the biggest obstacle to development. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them what their things aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the most manageable of these (and why): mass migration, corruption or famine.

After reading / listening

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words...

'far'

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

and 'away'.
________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

• Share your findings with your partners.

• Make questions using the words you found.

• Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

•Share your questions with other classmates / groups. •Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

good

signs

different

14

massive

serious

shows

adopted

all

51

sufficient

away

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion - Malnutrition goals in Africa 'very far away'

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

What did you think when you read the headline?
What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'malnutrition'?
Why is there malnutrition in the 21st century?
What do you think of sustainable development?
Will we ever be able to feed the world?
How is it possible to end poverty?
How can we all become prosperous?
How does greed affect the world?
How can we raise levels of education?
What are your aspirations?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
What do you think of when you hear the word 'poverty'?
What do you think about what you read?
What good news have you read about recently?
How can the countries in the article be helped?
What will things be like in 50 years from now?
How does mass migration change a country?
Is investment in health the answer?
What serious inequalities exist in your country?
What questions would you like to ask the researchers?

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

(a) ________________

(b) ________________

(c) ________________

(d) ________________

(e) ________________

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

(f) ________________

(g) ________________

(h) ________________

(i) ________________

(j) ________________

Language — Cloze (Gap-fill)

A new report shows that no country in Africa will meet goals (1) _____ to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was (2) _____ by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a (3) _____ of goals, "to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure (4) _____ for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is published in the journal Nature. It identifies (5) _____ child nutrition and low levels of education across 51 African countries. These were key factors in countries battling to provide children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal (6) _____ ending childhood malnutrition was always an "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."

There was some good news in the report. It highlighted the (7) _____ that many African nations, (8) _____ Ghana and Nigeria, have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a (9) _____ story for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report indicates that malnutrition remained "(10) _____ high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have experienced war, famine and (11) _____ migration, all of which have put massive strains on health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was needed (12) _____ health and infrastructure in order to address "serious inequalities".

Which of these words go in the above text?

(a) vet (b) bet (c) let (d) set
(a) sot (b) sat (c) site (d) set
(a) sate (b) set (c) seat (d) settle
(a) prosper (b) prosperous (c) prosperity (d) prospers
(a) poverty (b) poorly (c) poor (d) pour
(a) of (b) by (c) at (d) on
(a) true (b) fact (c) factual (d) truly
(a) including (b) inclusion (c) inclusive (d) includes
(a) differences (b) different (c) differential (d) differentiate
(a) puritanical (b) perspiration (c) persistently (d) perspicacious
(a) amassing (b) amass (c) mass (d) masses
(a) on (b) at (c) by (d) in

Spelling

Paragraph 1

ssunabaitel development
ensure ppoisytrre for all
development edaagn
poor child tioutirnn
provide children with uifsicnfet food
This nraoitasip is very, very far away

Paragraph 2

thihgdgilhe the fact
nltseetyirps high
war, famine and mass naromitgi
put evasmis strains on health
drinlcoasebe investment was needed
address serious iatiniqeuesl

Put the text back together

(...) on health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was
(...) levels of education across 51 African countries. These were key factors in countries battling to
(...) experienced war, famine and mass migration, all of which have put massive strains
(...) needed in health and infrastructure in order to address "serious inequalities".
(...) the year 2030. That target was set by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a set
(...) agenda". The new report is published in the journal Nature. It identifies poor child nutrition and low
(...) provide children with sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal of ending childhood malnutrition was always an
(...) "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."
( 1 ) A new report shows that no country in Africa will meet goals set to end childhood malnutrition by
(...) There was some good news in the report. It highlighted the fact that many African nations, including Ghana
(...) for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report indicates that malnutrition remained "persistently
(...) and Nigeria, have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a different story
(...) high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have
(...) of goals, "to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development

Put the words in the right order

end Meet to set goals childhood malnutrition .
across levels African education 51 countries . Low of
provide to with Battling children sufficient food .
always was Ending aspirational target . childhood malnutrition an
away . very is aspiration very, This far
news in There good the was some report .
in childhood the since Improvement year development 2000 .
like However, different a countries Chad . story for is it
persistently countries . in Malnutrition high remained 14
considerable investment said needed . was researcher One

Circle the correct word (20 pairs)

A new report shows that no country in Africa will meet / greet goals set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030. That target was bet / set by the United Nations in 2015 as a Sustainable Development Goal. The UN adopted a set / setting of goals, "to end poverty, protect the plants / planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of anew / a new sustainable development agenda". The new report is publishing / published in the journal Nature. It identifies poor / poorly child nutrition and low levels of education across 51 African countries. These were keyed / key factors in countries battling to provide children with sufficiently / sufficient food. Researcher Simon Hay said the goal of ending / end childhood malnutrition was always an "aspirational" target. He said: "This aspiration is very, very far away."

There was some good news in the report / reports. It highlighted the fact that many African nations, inclusive / including Ghana and Nigeria, have shown signs / signal of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000. However, it is a different / difference story for countries like Chad, Central African Republic and Eritrea. The report indicating / indicates that malnutrition remained "persistently height / high" in 14 countries between Senegal in the west to / and Somalia in the east. Many of these countries have experienced war, famine and mass / pass migration, all of which have put massive strains on / in health and agriculture. One researcher said considerable investment was needed in health and infrastructure in order to envelope / address "serious inequalities".

Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct.

Insert the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

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Punctuate the text and add capitals

a new report shows that no country in africa will meet goals set to end childhood malnutrition by the year 2030 that target was set by the united nations in 2015 as a sustainable development goal the un adopted a set of goals to end poverty protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda the new report is published in the journal nature it identifies poor child nutrition and low levels of education across 51 african countries these were key factors in countries battling to provide children with sufficient food researcher simon hay said the goal of ending childhood malnutrition was always an aspirational target he said this aspiration is very very far away

there was some good news in the report it highlighted the fact that many african nations including ghana and nigeria have shown signs of improvement in childhood development since the year 2000 however it is a different story for countries like chad central african republic and eritrea the report indicates that malnutrition remained persistently high in 14 countries between senegal in the west and somalia in the east many of these countries have experienced war famine and mass migration all of which have put massive strains on health and agriculture one researcher said considerable investment was needed in health and infrastructure in order to address serious inequalities

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

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hoodmalnutritionbytheyear2030.ThattargetwassetbytheUnitedNati
onsin2015asaSustainableDevelopmentGoal.TheUNadoptedasetofg
oals,"toendpoverty,protecttheplanetandensureprosperityforallaspa
rtofanewsustainabledevelopmentagenda".Thenewreportispublishe
dinthejournalNature.Itidentifiespoorchildnutritionandlowlevelsofed
ucationacross51Africancountries.Thesewerekeyfactorsincountriesb
attlingtoprovidechildrenwithsufficientfood.ResearcherSimonHaysai
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odnewsinthereport.IthighlightedthefactthatmanyAfricannations,inc
ludingGhanaandNigeria,haveshownsignsofimprovementinchildhoo
ddevelopmentsincetheyear2000.However,itisadifferentstoryforcou
ntrieslikeChad,CentralAfricanRepublicandEritrea.Thereportindicate
sthatmalnutritionremained"persistentlyhigh"in14countriesbetween
SenegalinthewestandSomaliaintheeast.Manyofthesecountrieshave
experiencedwar,famineandmassmigration,allofwhichhaveputmassi
vestrainsonhealthandagriculture.Oneresearchersaidconsiderablein
vestmentwasneededinhealthandinfrastructureinordertoaddress"se
riousinequalities".

Free writing

Write about malnutrition for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Academic writing

How can we end child hunger in the world? Discuss three options.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Homework

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google's search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.
2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.
3. MALNUTRITION: Make a poster about malnutrition. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?
4. HUNGER: Write a magazine article about raising tax worldwide to end child hunger. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against this.
Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on malnutrition. Ask him/her three questions about it. Give him/her three of your ideas on how we can end it. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

A Few Additional Activities for Students

Ask your students what they have read, seen or heard about this news in their own language. Students are likely to / may have have encountered this news in their L1 and therefore bring a background knowledge to the classroom.

Get students to role play different characters from this news story.

Ask students to keep track of this news and revisit it to discuss in your next class.

Ask students to male predictions of how this news might develop in the next few days or weeks, and then revisit and discuss in a future class.

Ask students to write a follow-up story to this news.

Students role play a journalist and someone who witnessed or was a part of this news. Perhaps they could make a video of the interview.

Ask students to keep a news journal in English and add this story to their thoughts.

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