EVERY KID NEEDS A CHAMPION – Video Listening

EVERY KID NEEDS A CHAMPION[1]

 

1. Rita Pierson’s parents were both _____________________.
2. The fact that Rita Pierson’s life has revolved round school has let her look at _____________________ from a lot of perspectives.
3. The reasons why children drop out [2]of schools are

• ____________________,
• _____________________ attendance,
• _____________________ peer influences.

4. What educators rarely discuss is the value and importance of _____________________.
5. All learning is _____________________ relationships.
6. According to Rita Pierson, children do not learn from people _____________________.
7. Children are usually shocked when a teacher _______________________ to them.
8. She has sometimes cried when she has found herself in front of very ______________________ classes.
9. It is very difficult to raise children’s ______________________ in just nine months.
10. Kids must tell themselves they are ______________________, ______________________, they ______________________ the education they are getting at school.
11. Out of the twenty questions children were given, they got ________________ wrong.
12. However, +2 makes children think they are not so _______________________.

 

[1] Champion: a person who fights for or defends any person or cause.

[2] To drop out: to stop attending school or college.

 

KEY

 

1. EDUCATORS
2. EDUCATION REFORMS
3. POVERTY – LOW – NEGATIVE
4. RELATIONSHIPS / CONNECTIONS
5. UNDERSTANDING
6. THEY DON’T LIKE
7. APOLOGIZES
8. ACADEMICALLY DEFICIENT / LOW
9. SELF-ESTEEM
10. POWERFUL / SOMEBODY – STRONG – DESERVE
11. 18
12. WRONG / BAD

 

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