The document describes the perilous journeys children undertake to reach school in various regions, including a remote village in China where students navigate steep cliffs, and in the Himalayas where frozen rivers serve as paths. It highlights the determination of these children, who face dangerous conditions such as rickety ladders, jagged ice, and flooded rivers. The document also includes true or false questions and additional queries related to the content.
The document describes the perilous journeys children undertake to reach school in various regions, including a remote village in China where students navigate steep cliffs, and in the Himalayas where frozen rivers serve as paths. It highlights the determination of these children, who face dangerous conditions such as rickety ladders, jagged ice, and flooded rivers. The document also includes true or false questions and additional queries related to the content.
The document describes the perilous journeys children undertake to reach school in various regions, including a remote village in China where students navigate steep cliffs, and in the Himalayas where frozen rivers serve as paths. It highlights the determination of these children, who face dangerous conditions such as rickety ladders, jagged ice, and flooded rivers. The document also includes true or false questions and additional queries related to the content.
The document describes the perilous journeys children undertake to reach school in various regions, including a remote village in China where students navigate steep cliffs, and in the Himalayas where frozen rivers serve as paths. It highlights the determination of these children, who face dangerous conditions such as rickety ladders, jagged ice, and flooded rivers. The document also includes true or false questions and additional queries related to the content.
Some children risk it all for school because they really
want to learn.
Gulu-China Guluis a …………..Chinese mountain village located in a national park with lots of canyons and precipices. The school is located halfway a gigantic cliff in the middle of a series of canyons. Children have to walk along steep rocky roads that have no guardrails and are only one foot wide (= 30 centimetres) in some parts. Shen Qicaiattends the GuluVillage Primary School. He rides his donkey and his grandfather ……………………..him on the way to school. It takes them five hours to climb from the base of the mountain where they live to the school. The Gulu Village Primary School is probably one of the most …………………schools in the world.
Sichuan Province -Southwest China
In southwest China, children have to learn how to climb before they learn Math or Science. Why? Well because the village is at the………………. of the mountain and the school is all the way down the valley below. School children and teachers walk half a mile (= 800 metres) ……………………………..each way. They climb a set of rickety and shaky wooden ……………………….to get to and from school..
Himalayas, India When Zanskar river ………………….in winter, it becomes a road for students who live in more remote areas. Only then they can make the trek to the village where the boarding school is. Children travel along the ……………………of a gorge where the river runs. But they don’t travel alone. One of their parents accompanies them. The commute is dangerous because of the jagged…………... Also it’s difficult for parents to pull a sledge along the ……………….. hills. The commute takes six full days along the frozen river and slippery hills.
Indonesia A suspension bridge ……………………after a river flooded in Indonesia a few years ago. However, one rope …………..held so children managed to cross the river to get to school. These students really showed a will to learn!
In another rural area in the Philippines. Children paddle with their …………..and …………….. in the dirty, dangerous waves. When the river…………………, children can’t attend school or go back home depending on which side of the river they are. So they have to stay with relatives. For now, they risk their lives all every day.
In southeast Colombia, the roaring Rio Negro river separates a small village from Bogota. Every day children travel on a pulley at 1300 feet (= 400 metres) over the river to get to school. Daisy is nine years old and goes to school by means of a pulley. But her five-year-old brother is too young for that. So she puts him into a cloth…………………. Then she attaches herself to the steel …………………... Now she is ready to fire away. Daisy and her brother travel at the incredible………. of 40 miles an hour (= 65 km per hour) so she uses a wooden fork to control the speed The most dangerous ways to school. Some children risk it all for school because they really want to learn.
Gulu-China Guluis a remote Chinese mountain village located in a national park with lots of canyons and precipices. The school is located halfway a gigantic cliff in the middle of a series of canyons. Children have to walk along steep rocky roads that have no guardrails and are only one foot wide (= 30 centimetres) in some parts. Shen Qicaiattends the GuluVillage Primary School. He rides his donkey and his grandfather accompanies him on the way to school. It takes them five hours to climb from the base of the mountain where they live to the school. The Gulu Village Primary School is probably one of the most remote schools in the world.
Sichuan Province -Southwest China
In southwest China, children have to learn how to climb before they learn Math or Science. Why? Well because the village is at the top of the mountain and the school is all the way down the valley below. School children and teachers walk half a mile (= 800 metres) vertically each way. They climb a set of rickety and shaky wooden ladders to get to and from school..
Himalayas, India When Zanskar river freezes in winter, it becomes a road for students who live in more remote areas. Only then they can make the trek to the village where the boarding school is. Children travel along the bottom of a gorge where the river runs. But they don’t travel alone. One of their parents accompanies them. The commute is dangerous because of the jagged ice. Also it’s difficult for parents to pull a sledge along the slippery hills. The commute takes six full days along the frozen river and slippery hills.
Indonesia A suspension bridge collapsed after a river flooded in Indonesia a few years ago. However, one rope cable held so children managed to cross the river to get to school. These students really showed a will to learn!
In another rural area in the Philippines. Children paddle with their hands and feet in the dirty, dangerous waves. When the river floods, children can’t attend school or go back home depending on which side of the river they are. So they have to stay with relatives. For now, they risk their lives all every day.
In southeast Colombia, the roaring Rio Negro river separates a small village from Bogota. Every day children travel on a pulley at 1300 feet (= 400 metres) over the river to get to school. Daisy is nine years old and goes to school by means of a pulley. But her five-year-old brother is too young for that. So she puts him into a cloth bag. Then she attaches herself to the steel cable. Now she is ready to fire away. Daisy and her brother travel at the incredible speed of 40 miles an hour (= 65 km per hour) so she uses a wooden fork to control the speed.
True or false. 1. Daisy uses a cloth bag to travel with her brother. 2. In Indonesia children use the bridge to get to school. 3. In Gulu, China, the school is located in the valley 4. In the rural area in Philippines, children attend school when the river floods. 5. In Colombia daisy uses the boat to get to school
Answer the question:
1. How does Schen get to school? 2. How long does it take Schen to get to school? 3. Why do children in Southwest China learn to climb? 4. Why don’t the children in Indian himalayan travel alone? 5. How long is their commute to school? 6. Why don’t the children in Indonesia use the bridge? 7. Why don’t the children sometimes skip the school in rural areas in Philipines? 8. How do they usually get to school?
