This is the social issues section of the site where teachers can find worksheets on topics such as being polite, drug abuse, and child labor. Currently there are 224 social issues worksheets that you can print and use in your own lessons. This worksheet contains a lot of activities based on a reading passage about a study of polite behavior in the United Kingdom. It is for intermediate students and includes some nice practice activities for using comparative and superlative adjectives. You can download the worksheet for free to see if it is suitable for your students; use as many or as few of the activities as you choose and make changes if necessary. There are other worksheets too including listening activities based on songs so take a look at some of them too.
Social issues are important in today’s world. More and more people are taking an interest in events that occur in places hundreds of miles away from where they live. While every country and community has its own social issues, we often focus on the ones facing people in other parts of the world. It is important for students to reflect on the issues their community has, but in a classroom setting it could be less controversial to choose other topics and then relate them to the local community. What you choose to discuss in your classroom will depend on the age of your students and their interests as well as what your school deems acceptable material.
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This is an article for upper-intermediate and advanced students. It is taken from the Daily Telegraph, and I've prepared the new vocabulary and comprehension questions about the article.
This is a reading text on a very interesting topic, namely how much censorship there should be in song lyrics in general, and in rap songs in particular.
There are a few post-reading comprehensio ...
This is a comprehensive lesson plan on the American elections: it contains 4 pages with a reading piece, and a 10-question comprehension checking quiz with multiple choices. This lesson plan was k ...
It is a worksheet I have made to use a video made by the Peace Corps to explain to their candidates how to avoid gaffes when they go abroad. You need to go to http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multim ...
This worksheet is about spotting lies in everyday situation. It encourages discussion and also provided students with a few ideas to help them spot a lie.
From my experience, this works jus ...
This worksheet is to be used with Bette Midler's highly politically incorrect song "I'm a woman". It intends to generate a discussion concerning the stereotypical view of men a ...
Objective: This is a fun way for students to understand the complexity of the sweatshop issue. It also serves as a review of the lessons and issues.
Setting:A hearing concerning sweatshops and ch ...
One of the most important things you can do as a teacher is to give your students information about the health effects of drug abuse and the uneasy consequences related to drug abuse treatment. T ...
Today we have a complete 6-page lesson plan about dreat kid inventors. The worksheet contains a reading piece, spelling practice activities, 'which word?' activities, quotations, and then a templa ...
TEST on comparatives, superlatives, modifiers, food, giving an opinion, revision of simple past and future. This is a written test that I made on food, comparatives, superlatives, modifiers, simpl ...
This is a reading task about Rosa Parks and the event which sparked off America's civil rights revolution. There is a vocabulary matching task, followed by the text and some comprehension questions.
Environment, nature, animals and weather vocabulary and practice exercises for grammar and speaking. The level is intermediate, and it is also appropriate for upper intermediate and those who are ...
This collection features 124 (!) short essays in English (3-4 paragraphs each) that you can use for your English lessons - for example, when you need a short text for a quick warm-up dictation or ...
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