Chilean Protest

 August 22nd

Currently some countries are living different changes that are going to affect positively or negatively their societies, especially regarding education. My proposal is to take a look at what is happening in some countries and compare it with the Colombian case. Let's start with the Chilean case

Students protests in Chile

I. Take a look at the following videos and answer the questions:

1. Student 'superheroes' protest in Chile , 19 July 2011

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14204123

Questions:

1.      Who are these superheroes?

a.       a. Set of the latest superheroes movie

b.     b.  Flash mob (a large group of people who suddenly gather in a public place, do something for a short time, and quickly go away again)

c.     c.   Chilean students in their latest protest

2.      What are they demanding?

a.    a.    To earn more money for their work

b.    b.   Education reform and lower university fees

c.    c.    To study in better universities

3.      Why did they do the kissing protest?

a.     a.   In order to make their opinion know

b.  b.     In order to show they are passionate and favor free education

c.     c.   In order to show they are young therefore they are free

2. Kissing protest staged by students in Chile, July 7

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14066467

Questions:

1.      How are they protesting?

2.      What do students think about this kind of protests?

3.      What do students hope to do with the protest?

3. Chile: Anti-government march in Santiago turns violent, July1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13987601

Questions:

1.      Was the march carried out in peace?

2.      What happened in the march?

3.      What does police use against demonstrators?

II.  These are some news published in BBC newspaper, read them and try to get a clearer overview of the situation

If it is hard for you to read these news, use the reading helper: 

http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Reader.do

1. Chile police break up student protest in Santiago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14412646

2. Chile proposes $4bn education fund as students protest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14041949

3. Chile: students reject President's proposal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14056371

 

III. PROTESTS: What would you protest about? Complete this table and share what you wrote with your partner(s). Change partners.

	What would you do?	Why?
Cuts in education	I would propose to study more, I would propose to do a reading protest, to go to the streets and read and give books to the common people	Because education protest should be related to educating people, we as students and teachers should show that we are educated, that we are thinking people and that reading and books are one of our instruments to do protests
Going to war
Loss of religious freedom
Tax increases
Nuclear power plant in your town
State corruption

IV. PUBLIC EDUCATION SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about public education in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.

When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

 

	STUDENT 1 _____________	STUDENT 2 _____________	STUDENT 3 _____________
Q.1.Do you agree that education should be free?
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.