Listen&Learn: Malala Yousafzai
Posted by: Jaksyn PeacockPre-listening vocabulary
- activist: someone who stands up for a cause
- invade: to enter and take control of an area
- hometown: the town where a person grew up
- motivate: to make someone want to do something
- pseudonym: a false name
- recover: to heal from an injury or illness
Listening activity
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Comprehension questions
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- Malala Yousafzai’s activism led to the approval of a Right to Education bill in Pakistan in 2012. Who are some other activists whose protests have changed laws?
Transcript
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist. She was born in 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. In 2008, the Taliban invaded Yousafzai’s hometown. They closed and destroyed many of the girls’ schools in the area. This motivated Yousafzai to speak up about girls’ rights to education. When she was only 11 years old, she started publishing her opinions under a pseudonym. Her activism drew a lot of attention, and her real name was soon revealed to the public. In 2012, Yousafzai was shot by a Taliban gunman while riding the bus. She recovered from the attack at a hospital in Birmingham, England, and began to go to school there. In 2014, Yousafzai became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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16 comments
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English Club Indonesia says:
In Indonesia, we have several politicians who were activists back then. They are renowned for bravely expressing their thoughts and opinions during the authoritarian era of the 90s. Because of their bravery, Indonesia has undergone a political reform, and the political situation is improving today.
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Alba castro says:
From an early age she fought for the rights and education of girls.
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Flor says:
She is a wonderful woman, she has made great changes in her hometown education is admirable.
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Rosy says:
She was the smartest young person she just a wonderful person that studys
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Bhasa says:
She leaned to find out herself in the public through her personality
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Ramesh Kumar says:
It is good to memorize it
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Atayeb says:
Its so powerful this story to listing like the end of paragraphs
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nader nadvar says:
nice
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Elle says:
She is very brave of doing that at an early age.
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Christine PENNEC says:
she is a wonderful person. At only 11 years old, she started to publish.
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Kulvinder says:
She is strong lady
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Rinri says:
Malala is a Very inspiring person, thank you
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MAURO says:
Malala is a winner.
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Abdulhameed says:
Malala is a brave woman and a role model among her peers.
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The King Of Love From IRAN says:
Thank you for sharing it with us,
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Bassam Nasser says:
So interesting