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Discussion
Discussion
- How do you think the world has changed over the last 100 years in terms of people's health and well-being?
- Is over-population a threat?
- Which country has the highest child mortality rate of these five pairs?
- Sri Lanka or Turkey
- Poland or South Korea
- Malaysia or Russia
- Pakistan or Vietnam
- Thailand or South Africa
Task one - Lecture comprehension and response
Task one - Lecture comprehension and response
Listen to the TED talk above and take notes, then look at the questions below:
Listen to the TED talk above and take notes, then look at the questions below:
- Why did the speaker feel nervous when he took up the post teaching on the Global Health course at Karolina Institute?
- How did his students initially perceive the world?
- Rosling claims that 'the linearity is very strong between child survival and money.' What does he mean by this, and can you paraphrase in your own words?
- Why does he split the bubbles of continents into countries at 9.50? What point is he making?
- Early in the talk, Rosling claims that those in developing countries had large families and relatively short lives. What does the word relatively mean in this sentence?
- Listen again to the section 4 mins 15 seconds in, where he describes changes in family size and life expectancy around the world between 1962 and 2003.
Task two - The Language of Analysis and Evaluation
Task two - The Language of Analysis and Evaluation
Below are four excerpts from the talk. Match each quote to the appropriate function on the right hand side.
Task three - working with the transcript
Task three - working with the transcript
The transcript for the talk appears beneath the video on the TED website, and via this link. Work with a partner and read through the text and identify where the speaker comments on the data. For example, where the speaker discusses causes or makes predictions, warnings, recommendations.
Discussion
Discussion
Explore the data sets on Rosling's website, Gapminder.org by clicking on the box to the right. Prepare a short commentary presentation for your group, with a few interesting points for analysis.
Once you have selected the countries you're interested in, you might want to explore:
- What social and economic changes have they undergone?
- Have they developed at the same pace?
- Is their anything surprising about the speed of the changes?
- What might be some of the underlying causes for the changes that you see on the graphs?
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