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Lesson Plans Year 2

Integrated Skills II
Social issues, Helping Elderly People
Lesson 2


Handout 1 D, Activity 1


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Oldest Man in the World, a Citizen of Uzbekistan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 17, 2011 /WNCNews/ - Age 130 years these days supposedly live for miracle, but a resident of remote villages in the northwest of Uzbekistan in Central Asia did this. According to the documents which shows that a woman named Tuti Yusupova was born on July 1, 1880, and she is therefore the oldest person on the planet. Information about the authenticity of the documents could not be independently verified.
Yusupova lives in the city of Tortkol (which means Four Lakes) in Uzbekistan, Central Asia and has lived for three centuries. Jusupova worked hard all her life, her employer was mainly Uzbek construction companies. In the present advanced age, according to the internal agency she is surrounded by all the attention of her extended family. Yusupova lives in the city with her daughter- in- law and a grandson.
Jusupova married at the age of 17 years in the 19th century and had two children. In Uzbekistan, according to local authorities she lives through of 2000 people over a hundred years. She received a national award on the eve of the first of September, Independence Day of Uzbekistan.
“I have hearing and vision loss, but I feel very healthy,” Yusupova said when met at her home in Tortkol, Uzbekistan.
Jusupova is eight years older than the oldest authenticated person on the world Frenchwoman Jeanne, who died in August 1997 in 122 years.


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