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THE CASTE SYSTEM * THE DALITS * VIDEO ACTIVITY

Click on MAGMA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

See Menu on the right: VIDEO = " Watch clips from the documentary Lesser Humans, and discover the unspeakable working conditions of India's Bhangis, the "lowest" of the Untouchable castes."

Click on "India's Bhangis"

Then choose "Video 1: Dirty Work" Real Player or Windows Media Player.

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VIDEO ACTIVITY IN SIX PARTS

PART 1

From 0:00 to 0:11

A. WATCH "clips from the documentary Lesser Humans, and discover the unspeakable working conditions of India's Bhangis, the "lowest" of the Untouchable castes."

B. Now, concentrate on what people are saying and complete the script with the following words:

"shit * meaning * hell * carrying * Vada".

Journalist: What are you ?

Woman:

Journalist: ?

Woman: meaning ! … Narak! ( !)

Score :

 

PART 2

FROM 0:12 to 0:39

A. Watch and describe what you can see.

B. Now, concentrate on what people are saying and complete the script with the following words:

" 've * work * pee * heads * aside"

“This is the kind of our community does. The upper-castes put their

children when they shit or in their laps.

While we to carry your pee and shit, put it on our and

throw it away!

Score :

 

PART 3

From 0:36 to 0:56

Watch and describe what you can see.

 

PART 4

From 0:55 to 1:15 ("LESSER HUMANS").

A. Watch and describe what you can see.

B. Now, concentrate on what people are saying and complete the script with the following words:

"ill * animals * humans * die * you * others"

Journalist: what if do it?

Woman: they would fall and .

Journalist: don't fall ill?

Woman: we don't, we're but they, poor things, are

Score :

 

Part 5

From 1:16 to 1:48

A. Watch and describe what you can see.

B. Now, concentrate on what people are saying and complete the script with the following words:

" inhumane * section * practise * replaces * system"

The flush latrine in our cities definitely gets rid of the of

carrying nitrous head loads but it it with something much

more …

Like in the villages and in the cities too this inhumanity

is faced only by a particular of our people.

Score :

PART 6

From 1:48 to the end.

Describe what you can see.

REACT and give your opinion. ............

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