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MALALA
YOUSAFZAI
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1 Warm up
Look at the bar chart and answer the questions.

1. Assuming that 50% of the population is female, which countries have fewer female students than
expected?
2. Why do you think some girls are missing from school?
3. How can we make sure that girls attend school?
4. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani woman who works to make sure girls around the world can receive
an education. What do you know about her life and work?

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2 Vocabulary

Read the sentences and match each word in bold to the correct meaning below.

1. Global action is needed to fight climate change, and social media is an influential tool in explaining
what people can do to help.

a. having the power to change the way people think or what they believe:

b. worldwide, international:

2. The government’s campaign to help businesses has been very successful. The president gave a
speech about her plans for the next stage of the plan.

a. a set of actions that will achieve a specific result:

b. a formal occasion when someone gives a talk to a large audience:

3. Thousands of refugees have left the city. Social activists are saying that we must offer them a safe
place to live.

a. people who work to make positive changes to society:

b. people who have had to leave their homes because of war or other disasters:

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4. Dialogue

Anna: We’re in the area to promote our new products. Would you like a free sample?

John: Yes, please. I don’t want to miss out on any special offers.

a. not have or use the opportunity to do something which would be a benefit to you:

b. encourage people to use, do or support something:

5. He’s celebrating his victory - did you know he got the prize for best actor? Only three people
received a nomination for that prize.

a. winning a game, competition, or war:

b. a formal suggestion that someone should win or receive something:

6. We founded this clinic twenty years ago. It has a focus on women’s health.

a. began a project and make it successful:

b. the main or most important point about something:

Answer the questions below.

1. Which items have four syllables?

2. Does the letter G have the same pronunciation in the words global and refugee?

3. Which item has a silent letter?

4. Which item is a phrasal verb?

How do you think these words will be used in the story of Malala Yousafzai’s early life?

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3 Listening 1

You are going to listen to information about the life of Malala Yousafzai (born in 1997). Before you
listen, read the sentences and try to predict if they are true or false. Then listen and check your ideas.

1. Malala’s father was a teacher.

2. In 2007, Malala and her family had to leave her home in Pakistan because of floods.

3. Malala was shot by a gunman at her school.

4. She gave a speech at the White House in 2013.

5. In 2014, she became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

6. Malala studied medicine at Oxford University.

4 Language in context

Read these sentences from the recording and explain the meaning of the words in bold.

1. Her father ... named his daughter after a female hero who led the Afghan people to victory in an
1880 battle against the British.

2. ...in 2008, Malala gave her first public speech, called "How dare the Taliban take away my basic
right to an education?"

3. 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.

5 Listening 2

Read the questions. Can you remember the answers? Listen again to check.

1. What was Malala’s first school?

2. How did Malala react to the Taliban’s violent campaign against girls’ education?

3. Where did Malala and her family live after the shooting?

4. Why did she choose the title, "I am Malala" for her book?

5. What does the Malala Fund do?

6. How has Malala helped refugees?

7. What job did she do after she graduated?

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6 Language point

The biography of a living person uses a range of different tenses and verb forms. Match each verb in
bold with the correct name and description.

1. During the next few years, she made two a. past continuous - to talk about an action in
documentaries with a US filmmaker about progress at a specific time in the past
the local situation and met with United
Nations workers.
2. Malala attended the girls’ school that her b. past perfect - used with past simple to
father had founded ... make the order of events clear
3. The Malala Fund, set up in 2013, works in c. present perfect - to talk about past events
countries with low levels of female school or life experiences with no specific time
attendance ... reference
4. Malala has also opened a girls’ school in d. past simple - for finished past events
Lebanon for refugees from the Syrian Civil
War.
5. In 2022, Malala was working as a TV e. present simple - to talk about states or
producer. facts which are currently true

Choose the best form of the verbs to complete the sentences. Be ready to identify the form and say
how it is used.

1. More than 132 million girls miss / missed out on education every year worldwide.

2. Malala shared / has shared the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Indian activist Kailish Satyarthi,
another campaigner for young people’s rights.

3. Malala attended / had attended Lady Margaret Hall, the same college at Oxford University that
Pakistan’s first female prime minister Benazhir Bhutto attended / had attended in the 1970s.

4. Speaking while still at university, Malala says that she had enjoyed / has enjoyed typical student
experiences like staying up all night to finish an essay.

5. Malala had lived / was living in student housing during her time at Oxford.

Think of personal examples using the prompts. Talk about:

1. something you were doing five years ago

2. something you did because of another thing that had happened earlier
3. an unusual experience that you’ve had in your life

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7 Talking point

Discuss these questions in pairs or small groups.

1. What would you ask Malala if you could meet her?

2. What do you think Malala will do in the future? How influential do you think she will be?
3. Malala’s father named her after a strong female historical figure. Can you think of any similar
heroes that people might name their daughters after?
4. Malala Day takes place every year on Malala’s birthday, July 12. The aim is to remind world leaders
of the importance of making sure that all girls receive an education. What do you think people
could do on this day?
5. Which of these Malala quotes do you like best and why?

Glossary:
wage a struggle - fight against
illiteracy - not being able to read
poverty - not having enough money to live

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8 Optional extension

Read the infographic about the benefits of educating girls and choose the best heading for each box
from the list below. One item is extra.

Discuss the questions below.

1. Which information is the most surprising to you?

2. Which do you think is the most important or convincing reason for making sure all girls attend
school?
3. Can you think of any other additional benefits to educating girls?

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