1. gaurav barr, malvika bhatt and kafoumba doumbia come from d...

1. gaurav barr, malvika bhatt and kafoumba doumbia come from different parts
the world. do they have similar or different opinions about education? do they
consider it important?
2. what does education mean? use your notebook to write the answer to that
question. start by stating what it means, then say what it doesn't mean, choosing
from the phrases in the box below. you may add your own ideas about that issue.
exchange your answer with a classmate's.
to develop one's character to study textbooks to make people capable
of distinguishing right from wrong to help people form their opinions
and points of view to get good grades to memorize lots of information
to make people capable of interpreting things
3. discuss the following questions in small groups.
a) do you agree with those people's opinions about education? justify.
b) is education important to you? why (not)?
word study
reference words
pronouns are used to bring cohesion to the text and avoid the unnecessary
repetition of nouns. in reading a text it is important to identify the nouns which
have been replaced by the pronouns.
use your notebook to write down the correct options in each of the sentences below.
1. in "education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into
something better," what does the pronoun it refer to?
• world.
. knowledge.
• education
2. in "education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. it is
not just about lessons in textbooks," what does the pronoun it refer to?
• things
education
. lessons.​