10C Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2006: Muhammad Yunus
(1940-) Muhammad Yunus studied Economics at Dhaka University in Bangladesh and became a lecturer in 1961. In 1976, he visited some poor families in a village and he noticed that all the women had a similar problem. They needed money, but the banks didn’t lend them anything. The banks didn’t think the women could pay the money back. So Muhammad lent a total of $27 to 42 women and they paid him the money back later. He borrowed money from the Bangladeshi government and started a bank called the Grameen Bank. His bank was different to other banks because it lent small amounts of money to poor people. The Grameen Bank became very popular and, in 2011, it had 4.8 million users. Ninety-seven per cent of these were women. Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 because the Nobel committee believes that we need to reduce poverty to find peace.
7 Put the words in the correct order to make questions about your partner’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. Student A a did / study / where / he / ? b become / he / a lecturer in Economics / did / when / ? c in / who / 1976 / did / visit / he / ? d did / what problem / have / the women / ?
Student B a she / born / where / was / ?
b when she moved / how old / she / to the USA / was / ?
e refuse / why / to give loans to the women / banks / did / ?
f he / did / to the women / how much / lend / ? g next / what / do / did / he / ? h was / about the Grameen Bank / what / different / ? i
the bank / did / how many people / lend money to in 2011 / ?
j 8 the Nobel Peace Prize / win / he / did / why / ?
c did / study / she / what / ? d notice / did / in Kenya / what problem / she / ? e called / was / what / her organization / ? f help / who / the GBM / did / ?
g the GBM / between 1977 and 2015 / plant / did / how many trees / ?
h about planting trees / she / say / did / what / ? i win / she / did / the Nobel Peace Prize / when / ? j
she / when / die / did / ?
Ask the questions from 7 to find information about your partner’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. Ask more questions until you understand the whole story. Whose story is more interesting?
9 Write a profile of another Nobel Prize winner. Follow these steps.
Step 1 Do some internet research and decide on the winner you want to write about. Step 2 Plan your profile. Include dates and key information about their achievements. Step 3 Read your finished profile and make any corrections to the spelling and punctuation.
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