:World Current Events
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Approach: One to one Level: Year 4 and year 8   
Focus: Awareness and knowledge of world current events
Resources: None
Questions/instructions:
There are lots of very important things happening in the world.


% responses
2005 (01)
y4
y8
1. Can you tell me about three important things that are happening in the world at the moment?
    Think about what is in the newspaper, on the TV or on the radio.
First important thing:
Location/Focus:
international
33
59
 
national
18
29
regional or local
4
1
no relevant response
45
11
Timing:
specific current event
45
78
 
ongoing issue/activity
10
11
no relevant response
45
11
Activity category:
natural (e.g. natural disaster, weather)
25
35
 
political/economic (e.g. war, oil price)
13
45
sporting
5
5
social (e.g. new movie, visitors to New Zealand)
10
4
no relevant response
47
11
Second important thing:
Location/Focus:
international
26
44
national
11
26
regional or local
4
2
no relevant response
59
28
Timing:
specific current event
35
55
ongoing issue/activity
6
17
no relevant response
59
28
Activity category:
natural (e.g. natural disaster, weather)
18
15
    
political/economic (e.g. war, oil price)
7
43
sporting
6
6
social (e.g. new movie, visitors to New Zealand)
8
8
no relevant response
61
28
Third important thing:
Location/Focus:
international
16
32
 
national
9
16
regional or local
1
2
no relevant response
74
50
Timing:
specific current event
22
38
 
ongoing issue/activity
4
11
no relevant response
74
51
Activity category:
natural (e.g. natural disaster, weather)
11
7
 
political/economic (e.g. war, oil price)
5
27
sporting
4
7
social (e.g. new movie, visitors to New Zealand)
5
8
no relevant response
75
51
2. Choose one of these important things and tell me as much as you know about it.
Description of important thing:
clear full description
5
25
 
moderately good description
16
32
very limited description
34
31
no useful response
45
12
Total score:
16–18
8
25
 
13–15
8
20
10–12
14
24
7–9
11
7
4–6
22
17
1–3
3
0
0
34
7
Commentary:
Thirty-four percent of year 4 students could not identify one world current event but 16 percent of year 4 students scored quite highly on this task (compared to 45 percent of year 8 students).
  
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