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GUESS WHAT HAPPENED Practice 10

Family and community environment
SOCIAL LANGUAGE PRACTICE: Interpret and offer descriptions of
unexpected situations in a conversation.

maLaLa’s BioGraphy

On July 12, 1997, Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora,
Pakistan, located in the country's Swat Valley. For the first
few years of her life, her hometown remained a popular
tourist spot that was known for its summer festivals.
However, the area began to change as the Taliban tried
to take control.

Malala attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai,
had founded. After the Taliban began attacking girls' schools
in Swat, Malala gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in
September 2008. The title of her talk was, "How Dare the
Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education?"

In early 2009, she began blogging for the BBC about living
under the Taliban's threats to deny her an education. In
order to hide her identity, she used the name Gul Makai.
However, she was revealed to be the BBC blogger in
December of that year. With a growing public platform,
Malala continued to speak out about her right, and
the right of all women, to an education.

When she was 14, Malala and her family learned that the
Taliban had issued a death threat against her. Though
she was frightened for the safety of her father—an anti-
Taliban activist—she and her family initially felt that the
fundamentalist group would not actually harm a child.
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