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Daily life near Arusha

I can identify similarities and differences between the life of a child living in Arusha and my own life.

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Year 2

Daily life near Arusha

I can identify similarities and differences between the life of a child living in Arusha and my own life.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Daily life in Arusha can be investigated using pictures and written sources of information.
  2. There are many ways in which our lives are the same as, but also different from, other people’s lives.
  3. There are similarities and differences between a child’s life in Arusha and my own life.

Common misconception

Learners may think that the life of every child in Tanzania (and Africa) is like the life of Zahra.

Spend more time discussing the similarities and differences between people in the UK to help learners appreciate that there will be many similarities and differences in people's lives both within and between countries and places.

Keywords

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

  • Village - A village is a small group of houses where people live.

  • Similarities - Similarities are the things that are the same when compared with others.

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

Gapminder's Dollar Street is a useful resource for exploring the similarities and differences between people's lives in the same and different countries.
Teacher tip

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of these photographs shows a city?
Correct answer: A
B
C
Q2.
Put these settlement types in order, from smallest to largest.
1 - village
2 - town
3 - city
Q3.
What are similarities?
things that are not the same when compared with other things
Correct answer: things that are the same when compared with other things
things that don't look like something else
Q4.
What are differences?
Correct answer: things that are not the same when compared with other things
things that sound like something else
things that are the same when compared with other things
Q5.
We all have some to others and some differences from others.
Correct Answer: similarities
Q6.
Match the following example places to the type of place they are.
Correct Answer:Africa,a continent

a continent

Correct Answer:Tanzania,a country

a country

Correct Answer:Arusha,a city

a city

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6 Questions

Q1.
Where is Arusha located in Tanzania?
Correct answer: to the north
to the south
to the east
to the west
Q2.
Who does Zahra live with?
Correct answer: her brother, sister, mother and father
her brothers, mother and father
her mother, father and grandparents
Q3.
Where does Zahra live?
in the city centre of Arusha
in Dar es Salaam
Correct answer: in a village just outside Arusha
Q4.
How many children are in Zahra’s class at school?
25
Correct answer: 45
65
Q5.
The life of every child in Tanzania will be __________ Zahra’s life.
the same as
Correct answer: both similar to and different from
different from
Q6.
The life of every pupil in our school will be __________ Zahra’s life.
completely different from
Correct answer: both similar to and different from
completely the same as