Description

copy and paste the following website http://www.6milliardsdautres.org/index.php 1. choose your language 2. Under the word Discover click on: "in6b0testimonies" 3. choose a theme and sub theme if you choose money, poverty will show up as a sub theme 4. click the green "Launch search"

Task

Choose 3 interviews that you would like to share. post comments on our classroom page

Learning Objectives

What separates and what unites us? In February 2003, Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s idea, 6 Billion Others, was born from the simple desire to make contact with other people. To learn to live together, it is first necessary to get to know each other, to dare to take the first step; to ask questions, to listen, and to become a part of someone else’s story. By bringing together experiences on film from across the world, we hope to display on a single site the diversity of mankind, while enabling people to experience the universal nature of humanity. “6 Billion Others”. 5,000 interviews were filmed in 75 countries by 6 directors who went in search of the Others. From a Brazilian fisherman to a Chinese shopkeeper, from a German performer to an Afghan farmer, all answered the same questions about their fears, dreams, ordeals, hopes: What have you learnt from your parents? What do you want to pass on to your children? What difficult circumstances have you been through? What does love mean to you? Forty or so questions that help us to find out what separates and what unites us.

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