Chapter 5
Listening Speaking
IC3 Section
IC3 | IT | TOEFL | Best Answer
Vietnamese translation of IC3
Persian translation of IC3
Language Lessons
Assessment
Poverty Reduction/ Xoá đói giảm nghèo/فقر زدایی
Guiding Question: How is it possible for people to move out of poverty in your culture? |
Câu hỏi hướng dẫn: Có cách nào để giải thoát người dân khỏi cảnh đói nghèo? |
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سوال راهنما: چگونه در فرهنگ شما برای مردم این امکان وجود دارد که از فقر فاصله بگیرند؟ |
Skills:
In this chapter you will do these things:
English Language Skills:
View Short Film: Disney’s “The Little Matchgirl”
Poverty Vocabulary in Context
Listening Comprehension as a Skill
Pre-Listening Tasks
Discussion about Children in Poverty
Listening to the Story of “The Little Match Girl”
Storytelling Ability
Retelling the Story
Storytelling
Vietnamese Language Skills:
Review of Tones
Vocabulary for Poverty Reduction
Grammar Point: “rất, lắm and quá”
IC3: The Little Match Girl
Intercultural Communicative Competence
The Little Match Girl
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source: http://www.gcb.dk/UserFiles/ |
In 1848, Hans Christian Anderson published an original story about a little girl selling matches on a snowy New Year’s Eve. The story was inspired by a drawing on a calendar by Danish artist Johan Thomas Lundbye in which he drew a poor child selling matches. Around the same time, Anderson’s friend and colleague, Charles Dickens had published Oliver Twist. Both men brought to the fore the plight of a poor and silent population of children in Europe.
The story seems to possess universal qualities regarding children and poverty that seems to somehow touch a chord in different cultures. We at IC3 discovered that the following stamps come from many different countries:
Source: Source: http://hca.heindorffhus.dk/
Likewise, the story has been told in many different ways: in books, theater, film and online in many different languages. Below are some of the book illustrations:
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These images, juxtaposed with modern images, give for us an opportunity to see that children in poverty is familiar to us and that it has a quality that defies time. Look at these images:
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As you look at these images, discuss the following questions:
1. The setting for the story is in the mid-1800s and we presume that because Anderson is Danish, the story takes place in Europe. The Disney film chooses Russia as its setting. Is the Little Match Girl’s story unique to that time and place or is it a story that can take place today in different places around the world?
2. Could a Little Match Girl be found in your country today? What creates “Little Match Girls” in your country? Why do they not go home?
3. Are such children today regarded in the same ways as Anderson depicted in this story? How are things the same and how are they different? Are children in such circumstances still a silent population?
4. What holiday is being celebrated in The Little Match Girl? Why do you think that Anderson wrote the story to take place during a holiday? If this story were written in your country, during which holiday would the story setting take place in order to evoke the most emotions over poverty?
5. What does the child desire and yearn for? What is it that children in poverty desire and yearn for?
6. Who is the old woman? What is her purpose in the story? According to your culture, what are beliefs about death and afterlife? Does the Little Match Girl die in order to go to a better place? Would such a story carry the child to a better place if the story were told in your culture?
7. Is the story moving the readers/listeners to action? What then, must we do?
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For a reading of the text of this story go to the English section of this chapter under Lecture/Presentation or online at: http://www.online-literature.com/hans_christian_andersen/981/ For a online audio version go to this link: The Little Match Girl Audio book.mp3 To see the Disney film of The Little Matchgirl: Google “The Little Matchgirl Disney” and find a number of versions on YouTube (presently at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkoaFT-Oc-U and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q OR http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/disneys-the-little-match-girl/) It is also found on The Little Mermaid (Two-Disc Platinum Edition). Find Commentary: |
After you have completed the Reading, Listening/Speaking, and Writing chapters 5, how would you answer the following question?