Sunday, June 15, 2008

Form 3 spelling examination

Hi everyone. Here are the words for your spelling test:

tectonic
continental
subduction
sustainable
ecotourism
rio de Janeiro
leakage
rift valley
literacy
malnutrition
Bangalore
Western Ghats
corruption
bribery
bilateral
outsourcing
Chico Mendes
convection
immigration
seismograph
destruction
democracy
revolution
globalisation

Form 2 Spelling examination

Please revise the following words for a spelling examination:



reference

inequality

diversity

pollution

ratio

multicultural

racism

geographical information systems

environment

preservation

sustainable

interpretation

density

migration

topographic

globalisation

fragmentaton

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Form 3 class activity - Dharavi slum, Mumbai

Hi everyone

Click on the following website from National Geographic, 'skim read' the article and answer the questions below on no more than 2 sides of paper. The article is quite difficult and they will probably be words that you do not understand. Please use the internet to help with your understanding.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0705/feature3/index.html

Here are your tasks:
1.Find a map showing the location of Dharavi

2.Write half a page describing what Dharavi is like (have a look at some of the photographs)

3.Find out how the slum is changing and the reason(s) why

4.What do local people think about the plans for the slum?

EXTENSION WORK! Have a look at this second article from a magazine caled The Economist. It is from last year and the headline of the article is - '

'The residents of Dharavi, allegedly Asia's biggest slum, are thriving in hardship'

Produce a series of bullet points which show how people are achieving success in Dharavi.

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311293

Print your work with name on and hand it in.

Good luck!