Hello and welcome, my name is Ms. Harrison.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today, we're going to have a fantastic lesson.

Today's lesson is called Daily Life Near Arusha, in Tanzania.

This is part of a wider unit called Contrasting Locality, What it's Like to Live in Tanzania.

In today's lesson, we will be looking at identifying similarities and differences between the life of a child living in Arusha, in Tanzania, and your own life.

But before we can begin this learning, we need to define a few of the keywords that we'll be using throughout this lesson.

The key words that we'll be using throughout this lesson are city, village, similarities and differences.

A city.

A city is a settlement that is usually larger than a town and has a local government.

Village.

A village of small group of houses where people live.

Similarities.

Similarities are the things that are the same when we compare them with others.

Differences.

Differences are the things that are not the same when compared with others.

Fantastic, now we've defined these keywords, we can begin to start answering some of our key learning outcomes.

Our first learning outcome in this lesson is, what is Zahra's life like? Arusha is a small city in north of Tanzania.

We are going to go and meet a child from Arusha and find out what their life is really like.

I've marked out on the map on the screen where Arusha is, so you're able to see where it is in Tanzania.

This is Zahra.

Zahra is seven years old.

She lives in a village, an area with just a group of houses, just outside of Arusha.

There are five people in Zahra's family, her father, her mother, her brother, her sister, and her.

Her brother is called Akida, and he is ten, and her sister is called Mansa, and she is four years old.

This is Zahra's house.

Zahra's house, like the image on the screen, is made out of wood and mud, and it has a metal roof.

Her house has three rooms, a living room area where they cook their meals and two bedrooms. Zahra and her brother and sister share a room, and her parents sleep in the other room.

It takes Zahra and her brother about 30 minutes to walk to school.

Her sister is to young to go to school, as she is only four years old.

School starts really, really early in the morning and they finish at about lunchtime.

The older children go to school in the afternoon.

This is Zahra's classroom.

There are 45 children in her class, and sometimes, because the large class sizes, they will have to share tables.

Her favourite subjects are maths and social studies.

She really, really loves school, but sometimes it can be really noisy and can get too crowded.

She really loves skipping and playing tag at break time.

Zahra is also one of the fastest runners in her class.

She would like to be a teacher when she's older.

Let's test our knowledge of what we can remember about Zahra and her time at school.

How many children are in Zahra's class at school? Is it A, 25, B 45, or C, 65? Pause here whilst you decide how many students are in Zahra's class at school, and then when you're ready, press play.

Fantastic.

Let's check our answers.

There are B, 45 students in Zahra's class at school.

And Zahra did say that sometimes it can get very, very noisy and very crowded, and often she might have to share her table with another student.

After school, Zahra loves to play with her friends.

She also helps her parents out at home.

She looks after her sisters and does other jobs around the house, like washing dishes and helping to cook.

Zahra also says that they don't have water at home, so Zahra has to go with her brother to collect it in buckets from this water pump that you can see on the screen.

She also goes to collect wood that they will use for their cooking.

Zahra's parents are farmers, they don't have much land and most of what they grow, they eat themselves.

They grow different types of crops such as bananas, corn, carrots, tomatoes, and cabbages.

Zahra's parents say that it's becoming more and more difficult to grow crops because the rains don't come as often as they used to.

Zahra's parents' dream would be to buy some chickens and goats one day.

Let's test our knowledge here.

Zahra's family buys most of their food in their supermarket, true or false? Pause the video here whilst you decide whether this statement is true or false, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

Let's check our answers.

Is this statement true or is it false? It's false, Zahra's family does not buy most of their food in a supermarket.

I wonder, are you able to explain why Zahra's family does not buy most of their food in a supermarket? Pause the video here whilst you attempt this question and press play when you're ready to check your answer.

Excellent, let's check our answers as to why Zahra's family does not buy most of their food in a supermarket.

Zahra's parents are farmers, and they grow most of the food the family eat themselves.

Well done if you managed to get that correct.

Sometimes, Zahra says, she goes with her mother to buy food at the market in a nearby town called Kisongo.

Her parents also sell some of their crops there if they have any left over.

The market is a very, very busy place, and lots and lots of people go there to buy things and also to sell things.

The image on the screen is an example of a market that they might see in Kisongo.

In the evening, Zahra helps her mother to make dinner.

They eat a lot of ugali.

Ugali is made by cooking corn flour and water.

It makes a stiff, sticky porridge, which we eat with beans and vegetables.

You can see an image of ugali being made on the screen.

Her favourite food is fried chicken, but we don't have that very often, as obviously that's a very special treat for them.

After dinner, Zahra will go and do her homework before she goes to bed.

In Zahra's house, they don't have electricity, but they have some lamps that they put on when it gets too dark.

An example of the lamps is on the screen.

Her best friend's family have electricity and television at home.

Zahra dreams about having a television one day in her home.

Pause here whilst we answer this question, what is ugali? Is it A, a type of porridge made from corn flour, B, a small animal, C, a type of bread? Pause here whilst you decide what type of food ugali is and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic, let's check if you remember what ugali is.

Ugali is a type of porridge made from corn flour.

Fantastic, well done.

Now, I would like you to use the words or pictures to describe what your life is like.

I would like you to use the box below to help you.

You'll see there are six boxes below, one that says me, one that says who I live with, one that says what my home is like, what my school is like, what I do after school, and the food I eat.

I would like you to populate this grid with as much information as possible so that we are able to compare what your life is like and what Zahra's life is like.

Pause here whilst you complete this grid and press play to continue when you're ready.

Excellent work, well done for completing your grid.

I'm going to show you an example of how I completed this grid earlier today.

Me.

My name is Dan and I'm nine years old.

Who I live with.

I live with my mom and dad, I don't have any brothers or sisters.

What my home is like.

My home joins onto other houses on both sides, it has three bedrooms and a small garden.

What my school is like.

My school is a seven minute walk away from my house, there are 240 pupils there.

My favourite place is the reading corner.

What I do after school.

I play on my roller skates and on my game console with my friends.

I have homework to do and I help out in the kitchen sometimes.

The food I eat.

I like all sorts of different foods, but my favourite food is pizza.

I hope your grid is as populated as this, and probably you've got some things that are similar in your grid as I've put in this grid.

Excellent work for this task, and well done for describing your lives as best as you possibly can.

Now we've been able to look at what Zahra's life is like, we now need to investigate what the similarities are and what the differences are between Zahra's life in Arusha, in Tanzania, and your life where you live.

There are similarities and differences between people's lives all the time.

I would like you to think about what your own life is like.

What similarities and differences might there be between your life and other children in your school? What similarities and differences might there between your life and other children in the UK? So, pause here and I would like you to think about the similarities, things that are the same, and the differences, things that are not the same, between your life and other children in your school.

And then I also want you to think about what similarities and differences there might be between your life and other children in the UK.

Pause here whilst you think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Excellent work.

I hope you're able to identify some similarities and differences between you and other children in your school, and you and other children around the UK.

There are also similarities and differences between Zahra's life and other children in Tanzania.

Zahra lives in a village in Tanzania.

How might her life be the same or different to a child living in a city in Tanzania? Pause here and think about the differences and the similarities that would be between Zahra's life in a village and another child living in a city.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Excellent work.

There might be a lot of similarities and differences between Zahra's life in a village and a city.

Some similarities might be that they both live in the same country, they both go to school.

Some differences might be Zahra has to travel to get water, children in the city might not have to travel to get water.

I now want you to think, Zahra's parents are farmers and the family don't have a lot of money.

Do you think this is the same for every child in Tanzania? Pause here whilst you think about this and press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

Zahra's life is not going to be the same as everyone's life in Tanzania.

Zahra's parents are farmers and they don't have a lot of money.

There are some families in Tanzania who do also have a lot of money and who are not farmers, so there are some differences between Zahra and other students and children around Tanzania.

I want you now to pause here and think about what other similarities and differences might there be between Zahra's life and other children or students living in Tanzania.

Pause here whilst do you think and press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

Very well done.

There might be similarities and differences like this, who we live with, our homes, our school, what we do after school, the food we eat.

And there might be similarities and difference in other things such as about whether we are a boy or a girl, how old we are, our likes and our dislikes.

Let's pause here for a second.

The life of every child in Tanzania will be the same as Zahra's life.

Pause here whilst you think if this statement is true or false, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

The answer to this statement is false.

The life of every child in Tanzania will not be the same as Zahra's life.

I would like you now to explain why.

Pause here, write your answer down, and press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

We all have similarities and differences, even if we live next door to each other.

We might be a girl, we might be a boy.

We might live in different types of houses.

We might have access to different things, such as water.

We might do different jobs.

Well done.

I would like you now to think about the similarities and differences between your life and Zahra's life.

I would like you to either write or draw what you think in the table.

There is a section on who we live with, what our homes are like, what our schools are like, what we do after school, and the food we eat.

In the similarities section, you write all the things that you and Zahra share that are the same.

And in the differences, you write down all the things you and Zahra do not share that are different.

Pause was here whilst you complete this task and press play when you're ready to continue.

Excellent work.

Well done.

Here are some possible ideas of what you might have put in your table.

For who we live with.

I put the similarities as I have a brother too.

For our differences, I don't have a sister.

What our homes are like.

I share a bedroom with my brother as well.

My differences, our house has a concrete wall and a tiled roof.

What our schools are like.

The similarities, I walk to school just like Zahra.

The differences, there are only 28 children in my class.

I hope you've been able to identify some similarities and differences like I've put in this table.

I've also continued on what do we do after school.

I sometimes go to shopping my parents as well, just like Zahra.

My difference is I don't have to help at home as much as Zahra does.

The food we eat.

I like chicken as well, as my similarity.

My differences, we buy most of our food at the supermarket.

We're able to really clearly identify some really strong similarities with Zahra, which is great, but we're also able to identify the differences between Zahra and our life.

What questions would you like to ask Zahra about her life? I'd like you to pause here and I'd like you to think really carefully about some questions that you would like to know about Zahra's life.

Press play when you're ready to continue.

Fantastic.

So, we've come to the end of our lesson, Daily Life in Arusha.

It's been brilliant, I've really enjoyed learning with you.

Let's summarise what we've learned so far.

Daily life in Arusha can be investigated using pictures and written sources of information.

Zahra shared lots of pictures of her daily life with us.

She also shared a really detailed account about where she lives, her family, what she does in her spare time and what her school life is like.

There are many ways in which our lives are the same, but they are also different from others.

There are similarities and differences between a child's life in Arusha and my own.

Thank you so much for listening, and I hope to learn with you again soon.