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HOMEWORK. Laptop for world’s poor children




Laptop for world’s poor children

READING

SPEAKING

$100: In pairs / groups, discuss what you think of the idea of the products in the left hand column being sold for $100. How would they be different from conventional, more expensive products? What differences would they make to the world? How possible is it to produce / offer these products for $100?

PRODUCTS DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES $100?
Computer      
Car      
Small house      
Water purification unit      
Long-haul air tickets.      
Your idea      

Change partners and tell each other what you discussed with your previous partners.

Read and fill in the spaces.

BNE: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has _________ plans to produce a laptop computer for under $100 that will revolutionize computer ______________ to children in developing countries. Nicholas Negroponte, head of MIT’s Media Lab, has set up a new ______________ called One Laptop Per Child. It is a non-profit organization that will distribute the new machines ___ ______ and ensure the world’s poor don't end up on the wrong side of a digital divide. Mr. Negroponte ___________ across the idea after observing how children in a Cambodian village learned from a laptop. He decided to design a computer that was cheap and ___________ enough to be used anywhere in the world and that did not need electricity or batteries.

The laptops are ___________ by clockwork. One minute of winding up a hand ___________ produces ten minutes of power. They are ___________ in more ways than a conventional laptop and are ___________ in rubber to increase their sturdiness. They will be able to do almost everything a $1,000 model can do except store huge amounts of data. The machines have color screens, 1GB of memory and four USB ___________. Negroponte is aiming at one laptop per child rather than per community as he wants computers to be personal learning tools. He said: “One does not think of community ___________.” He explained: “They are a wonderful way for all children to ‘learn learning’ through independent ___________ and exploration.” Plans are now in place to distribute 15 million of the ___________ over the next five years.

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 more information on the $100 computers. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson.

3. THOUGHTS: You are a child living in a remote village in a developing country. You have had your wind-up computer for a month. Write your thoughts on the computer. What did you do the day it arrived? How has it changed your life and expectations? Read what you wrote to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you have similar thoughts?

4. LETTER: Write a letter to Mr. Negroponte. Tell him what you think of his idea. Suggest other ideas that could help poor children around the world. Read your letter to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all write about or suggest similar things?




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