How can being able to read and write

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How can being able to read and write change
lives?
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Take a look at these symbols
1. Which of these is your favourite symbol? 2.
Imagine you are going to have this symbol drawn
onto your body as a tattoo. 3. Where on your body
would you have it done?
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Take a look at these symbols
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7
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13
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10
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The door at 10 Downing Street
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Need to go to the loo? Which door would you
choose
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Where did you end up?
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Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen
meiner Welt.
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Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen
meiner Welt.
The limits of my language are the limits of my
universe.Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951),
Austrian Philosopher
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How big is the problem? Quiz Questions
1. How many primary school children do not go to
school in the world? a) 1 million b) 12
million c) 75million 2. At the current rate
of progress in the year 2015 the number of out of
school children will have a) increased b)
stayed the same c) decreased 3. What
percentage of the worlds adult population are
unable to read and write? a) 630 million b) 774
million c) 520 million 4. Which of the
following two things are not major reasons for
children remaining out of school a) child
labour b) living in rural areas c) laziness d)
poverty e) families affected by disease f)
war g) stupidity h) cost i) lack of commitment
from governments j) being female k)
disability 5. Because of campaigning by people
like you, since 2000 the number of out of school
children in the world has a) dropped by 40
million b) stayed the same c) increased by 40
million
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How big is the problem? Quiz Answers
1. How many primary school children do not go to
school in the world? a) 1 million b) 12
million c) 75 million 2. At the current rate
of progress in the year 2015 the number of out of
school children will have a) increased b)
stayed the same c) decreased 3. What
percentage of the worlds adult population are
unable to read and write? a) 5 b) 16 c)
20 4. Which of the following two things are
not major reasons for children remaining out of
school a) child labour b) living in rural
areas c) laziness d) poverty e) families
affected by disease f) war g) stupidity h)
cost i) lack of commitment from governments j)
being female k) disability 5. Because of
campaigning by people like you, since 2000 the
number of out of school children in the world
has a) dropped by 40 million b) stayed the
same c) increased by 40 million