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Leala

Life skills

  • Self-confidence
  • Interaction with people from different cultures
  • Discrimination / alienation / isolation - being the odd one out
  • Poverty / Third-world
  • Welfare state / NHS
  • Bargaining / haggling / say "no"
  • Living in close confines with others
  • Only small number of possessions / have to choose what to take and what to leave

    • Maths/Problem Solving

  • Exchange rates / currencies
  • Weather temperatures
  • Transport / logistics of travel / to be somewhere for a certain time/date
  • Budgeting - daily spend / average daily spend

    • Economics

  • Cost of goods and services
  • Imports and exports
  • Relative prices (cost of McDonalds)
  • Limited resources, e.g. money - spend too much now, won't have any for later
  • Choice - what to spend limited budget on

    • English

  • Confidence in verbal skills
  • Simple explanations / talking simply to be understood
  • Discussions at dinner table - where we’ve been, what we’ve seen, done
  • Journal writing
  • Postcard and email writing
  • Inspiration for creative writing, e.g. peoples, places, sights and adventures
  • A desire for books and reading

    • ICT

  • Email and the Internet
  • Internet web sites for information and accommodation
  • Creating her own web pages
  • Digital camera / photo’s
  • Video camera
  • VCD’s / DVD’s
  • Mobile telephones

    • Science

  • Geography / maps / the world / continents
  • Different time zones / different calendars
  • Earthquake - plate tectonics
  • Volcanoes / Glaciers
  • Fossils / rocks
  • Destruction of coral reef
  • Responsible tourism / watching programmes on extinction
  • Rain / weather / temperatures / humidity
  • Foods / tastes
  • Plants / fruits
  • Animals / fish
  • Mosquitoes
  • Health and hygiene - illness, medicine, protection
  • Wearing sun-cream / ozone layer

    • History & Religion

  • Religion - Buddhism, Muslim, Hinduism
  • Colonisation / colonialism / Empires
  • Wars
  • Countries, borders and boundaries
  • Current affairs
  • Tolerance
  • Terrorism

    • Arts & Crafts

  • Creating pictures on the beach using driftwood and debris
  • Weaving with flax leaves in New Zealand

    • Ben:

  • Swimming
  • Self-confidence
  • Say "no" to people who want to touch him

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    Jill Paul Leala Ben