Facts :
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More 'inequality' in rich nations 
"The gap between rich and poor in most wealthy nations has widened, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has said...
The report found that the income of the richest 10% of people was, on average, nearly nine times that of the poorest 10%...
The US has the highest inequality rate after Mexico and Turkey "
(BBC)
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Biofuel
use 'increasing poverty'
"The replacement of traditional fuels with biofuels has dragged
more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty, an aid agency
report says.
Oxfam says so-called green policies in developed countries are contributing
to the world's soaring food prices, which hit the poor hardest. The
group also says biofuels will do nothing to combat climate change...
One UN adviser went as far as describing biofuels as a "crime against
humanity". "
(BBC)
- Poverty
(Wikipedia)
1 Discourses on poverty
2 World poverty
3 US cities with a high rate of poverty
4 Causes of poverty
5 Eliminating poverty
6 Debates about poverty
7 Literature...
- World
poverty (globalhealth.org)
- Graphically compare
nations (505 stats) :
Fastest Growing - Richest - Poorest... (nationmaster)
Vocabulary :
INTERACTIVE exercises :
Conversation Questions :
Lesson plans :
- UN:
Hunger kills 6m children a year - a lesson plan
with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities,
pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."
(Breaking News English)
Click on the picture
Poems :
- Poverty
by Pablo Neruda (equalaccess.org)
Quotes :
- Rags
make paper... - a quotation page 9
(helene.cayuela)
- Poverty
(annabelle.net)
ex : "A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion,
more than bread."
* Georges Bernanos
Cartoons :
North
Vs South - (absolutenglish-972)
"Take a look at the picture
Identify : - the type of document - the main characters -
the main subject.
Compare the characters, then the situation.
Do the exercises on the comparative and superlative forms."
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Ads :
INTERACTIVE games :
Games TO PRINT :
Songs :
- Up to our necks in it sung by Skunk hour (YouTube)
- the LYRICS :
"When I come to meet a man, a forsaken man
He is alone, he has no home, no family here
No brother, no mother, no sister, no other
He cries to me, he is tired
Where does he send his message?
To what, to whom, to why, to where does he send it?..."
(mp3-download-lyrics.com)
- Pearls sung by Sade (lyrics007.com)
"There is a woman in somalia
Scraping for pearls on the roadside
There's a force stronger than nature
Keeps her will alive
That's how she's dying
She's dying to survive..."
- the VIDEO (YouTube)
- Subcity
sung by Tracy Chapman :
"People say it doesn't exist
'Cause no one would like to admit
That there is a city underground
Where people live everyday
Off the waste and decay
Off the discards of their fellow man"
(lyrics007.com)
- the VIDEO
(YouTube)
- Richard
Cory by Simon and Garfunkel (esl-lounge.com) :
"He had everything a man could want: power, grace, and style.
But I work in his factory
And I curse the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be, ...
Richard Cory."
- the VIDEO
(YouTube)
Richard
Cory - a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869
- 1935) :
"He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favoured and imperially slim..."
(poemhunter.com)
Listen to it
(YouTube)
- Breadline
Britain by Jimmy Somerville :
"This free and promised land
Where the rich don't give a damn
People getting hungry and people
getting poor
People getting destitute and more"
- Even
Flow by Pearl Jam :
"Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete..."
- Rich
Girl by Gwen Stefani :
"If I was a rich girl (na, na....)
See, I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl
No man could test me, impress me, my cash flow would never ever end"
- Nobody
knows you when you're down and out by Eric Clapton :
"Then I began to fall so low,
Lost all my good friends, I did not have nowhere to go...
In your pocket, not one penny,
And as for friends, you don't have any.
When you finally get back up on your feet again,
Everybody wants to be your old long-lost friend."
- PANHANDLIN'
PRINCE by Ugly Kid Joe :
"Yeah you see me lyin' with my brothers
In the gutter with my paper bag in hand..."
- Rockin'
In The Free World by Neil Young Lien
modifié
- Street life
by The Crusaders :
"Street life, you can run away from time
Street life, for a nickel, for a dime
Street life, but you better not get old
Or you're gonna feel the cold"
- What
It's Like by Everlast :
"We've all seen the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
The hair on his face is dirty, dreadlocked and full of mange..."
Videos :
Animations : 
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