World Hunger Organization
2011 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics
Newest, more comprensive, poverty measure shows increased poverty, especially among seniors Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post November 7, 2011 See full report Poorest poor in US hits new record: 1 in 15 people Hope Yen Associated Press November 2, 2011 Current portrait of poverty has major errors, experts say: it both sets poverty threshold too low, and ignores important sources of poor people's income Jason DeParle, Robert Gebeloff and Sabrina Tavernise New York Times November 4, 2011 See Hunger Notes US Hunger Factsheet
CIA--The World Factbook on the United States, Brazil, Colombia, China, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Japan: Click ECONOMY to find relevant statistics.
Important resources for Homelessness in the US:
Web sites:
- Photographs with bios
- The National Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty /Myths & Facts About Homelessness (includes 6 myths)
- Top 10 Myths about Homelessness
Questions to elicit attitudes about homelessness:
- Have you or anyone you know ever been homeless?
- Have you ever seen a homeless person in person? / At home? In Vermont?
- What was your reaction?
- Have you ever fed or given money to a H.P.?
- Would you give money to a H.P. if the opportunity arose? Why or why not?
- Who are the homeless in your country? Are they visible on the streets?
- How many H.P. do you think there are in your country? / in Vermont?
- What is the demographic of the homeless, in your opinion? Primarily men, women, something else?
To help answer this question, answer true or false to the following.
__The homeless are generally uneducated.
__They are usually men.
__They don’t want to work.
__They commit much of the crime in a city.
__They are drunks and drug users.
__Many of them are mentally ill.
__They come from other towns to places that have homeless shelters.
__Once a person is homeless, he or she will stay homeless.
__They could work if they want to.
__It can never happen to me.
Excellent Vocabulary resource: Check out the collocation thesaurus concordancer for Homelessness, Hunger, and Poverty!
Directions: Post the results of your research on hunger/homelessness in your countries here.
Vocabulary, COTS visitors
Instructions: Please find definitions and collocations for the following words/phrases and write a sentence with them.
Use the online dictionaries,COCA, and JustTheWord sites.
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WORD/PHRASE |
Definition (dictionary) |
Collocation |
Comments |
| Namiko |
Raise money
Affordable housing
Safety net
push (someone) over the edge |
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completed in Word |
| Anny |
emergency grants
transitional housing vs. permanent housing
the “chronically hard to house”
(the whole) spectrum of issues |
1. A solution which awards grants for the rehabilitation or conversion of buildings into homeless shelters. (ok)
2.The mission of the Transitional Housing Program is to provide sage (??), sober and affordable supportive housing to men, women and their children. The Permanent Housing Program is designed to provide housing and supportive services on a long-tern basis fro person people with disabilities, substance abuse issues, or mental illness who are living in places not intended fro human habitation or those living in emergency shelters.
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1. Emergency grants were only a temporary solutuion to its financial problems.
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3 / 5 |
| Juan |
para-educator
short-term/long-term disability
mortgage payments / get behind in mortgage payments
social security |
1. A Para educator is someone who helps the degree mainstream teacher. (ok)
The Para educator may help the teacher in activities such as copying as well as stapling papers.
The Para educator might teach part of the lesson under the mainstream Degree teacher's supervision.
2. Short term/ long term disability refers to the term used to describe the length of time for a disability based on difficulty or treatment of the disease.
3. A mortgage is an agreement between the seller and the buyer. Both parties agree a monthly payment that covers the amount agreed and the number of payments.
4. Social security is an American program that provides retirement income and disability income to those who classify to this benefit.
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1. Para educators have developed skills that are very useful for the head teacher in the classroom.
2. The senior citizen came back after a month on short-term disability.
3. He was behind on mortgage payments and on utility bills.
4.The social security number helps you apply for .... to fulfil with the documentation for the bank enrolment.
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4.5 / 5 |
| Buthaina |
“Once the ball gets rolling, it’s difficult to catch up.”
Leaving one’s possessions behind
make you humble
lose anonymity |
1. when somebody starts to lose control financially, it is extremely hard to catch up get up-to-datebecasue because he/she still has
have the reguler debt payments plus the old ones.
2. when some one have has no space to put things in it and cannot afford a storage space. all the possessions will be left in the street.
3. Humble means having a low social class or position.
4. Lose anonymity means lose privacy and will be not known any more.
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Perhaps, the most important thing about
family possessions is that they can be passed
from one generation to the next with their history .
He was more humble than they expected.
She wouldn't use Facebook because she wanted
to preserve her anynomity.
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4.7 / 5 |
| Chris |
leap of faith
quick to make judgments
book drive.
decide what to get rid of
initiative |
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0 |
| Noor |
secondary migrants
begrudge (“I never begrudged those things that rich people had.”)
Entitlement programs
fundraising
make the case for s.th. (e.g. prevention) |
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4.6 / 5 |
Rayra
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get over the hump
bite one’s tongue
food bank
standoffish
inebriated |
1- To get over an obstacle, something that could be difficult or take work to get through. (ok)
2- When someone stops themselves from saying what they really think, even though this is difficult. (ok)
3- A place that gives food to poor people. (ok)
4- Fairly unfriendly and formal. (ok)
5- Drunk (ok)
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1- In order to get over the hump, we need to study hard. (good)
2- I had to bite my tongue because I didn't want to embarrassed my friend. (good)
3- I donated food to a food bank. (good)
4- He was very standoffish with me. (good)
5- My friend was inebriated after the party. (good)
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excellent collocations
5 / 5
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Comments (2)
Juan M Garcia said
at 10:10 pm on Nov 20, 2011
Coca was more helpful than JTW in this meaning activity.
Christine Bauer-Ramazani said
at 9:35 am on Nov 22, 2011
Thank you for the comment, Juan. This is really helpful.
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