New India
Tomorrows India - Main activity
Despite its huge challenges, India has the technology and the resources to tackle them.
It is also full of surprises.
As a Hindi saying goes ‘India always wins!’.
The following case-study is an example of this:
Watch the Observer’s audio slide show as a class about India’s largest slum in its biggest city, Mumbai. It shows how its 19million citizens are making £700,000 a year from recycling the city’s waste.
Then, read Waste not, want not, an article from the Observer newspaper.
Look up the meanings of any words you don't recognise, then sum the article up in bullet-points. You could do this by breaking into small groups, taking a paragraph each, and feeding back to the class.
Now, work in pairs and download one slideshow image.
Place it in the middle of a piece of paper and write questions around it using information from the article, e.g. What challenges does this person face? What can the UK learn from Dharavi?
Do you like the way the article is written. Does it inspire you? Would you have presented it differently?