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 worksheet was created on the basis of the youtube video about the invention of gunpowder and its explosive power. I'd recommend this activity for upper-intermediate students as the video uses ...
This is an advanced level lesson based on the television programme The Secret Millionaire. Due to the issues involved this is recommended for older teenagers or adults. Students watch an episode o ...
A lesson on dating customs, used to provoke discussion and introduce related vocabulary with a teenage upper-intermediate group. Students start by discussing which of the customs are traditional a ...
A multitasked file about the issue for the 11th graders- cloning; it allows debate about bioethics. Students enjoy the film because it's up-to-date and presents a science fictional approach. ...
This worksheet can be used to set up a role play between Lottery funding representatives and representatives of charities who want funding.Prior to this,they have been given or invent their charit ...
The worksheet contains the whole lesson plan on topic “Society” or “Society vs Wilderness”. 1) Ss get p.1 to brainstorm what comes to their mind when they hear the word &ld ...
To make topic “relationships” more interesting I sometimes throw in a discussion on gender roles and stereotypes. Mature teenagers and adults enjoy giving their opinions on what is nat ...
Use the picture from the worksheet to make your ss think creatively and write a short essay or discuss orally “Who’s the leader in the picture?” If they find it hard to understan ...
This is a reading activity on a newspaper article, about parents who do not tell bedtime stories to their children anymore. It's a surprisingly good way to make students read, discuss the vocabula ...
This is a worksheet with two recent news about discrimination against kids. It's in the format of a newspaper. The objective is to discuss individuality, diversity, discrimination, school regulari ...
I wasn't able to find a reading comprehension text to show my adult students how conditionals can be used in practice. So, I created a text packed with all 3 conditionals (1, 2, 3). There is a spe ...
Here you can find two pages of questions for speaking activity in your class, to discuss how people ask for help and what their reactions are in everyday situations. There is a short text as an in ...
This presentation provides information about the so called "soft addictions". It contains reading and listening activities and suggests a final discussion at the end of the lesson. It can be shown ...
This lesson is usually one of my favourites. I start off by discussing the apocalypse and eliciting some vocab such as doomsday and etc. Then I get them into the story by diving them into 3 groups ...
This is a warm up to talk about problems in students' neighborhood. It will provide students with a chance to give advice to each other. Besides, practice the conversation and discuss ...
This is an essay that is about causes and effects of smoking among students. It is composed of four paragraphs. The main ones in the body are about causes of smoking among students and its bad con ...
This is a Worksheet about the film "American History X". It is formed by 17 questions to find out how attentive were your students while watching the movie, and also some discussion questions to h ...
A reading activity on a newspaper article about a surgery that can change the length and shape of the lines on the palm of our hands. People in Japan believe this procedure can change our lives an ...
Anti-smoking laws provides a reading material that aims for Elementary up to Pre-Intermediate Students. It is basically the staple for a Reading-Comprehension activity or a translation task. The l ...
This worksheet has been prepared by one of my colleagues. It is a power points slide show to teach children rights and duties. lt is a listening and speaking lesson. Students look at the pict ...
Skills : Listening/ Reading / Speaking Instruction : 1) The students are divided into a group of 5 and the worksheet is given to each of them. 2) Each group will preview necessary vocabulary ...
This sheet is part of a unit on volunteering in New Zealand. It gives students an opportunity to work in a small group to reach a clear understanding of the text, expand their vocabulary and free ...
It is a concise presentation about the problems teenagers may have while at school. It talks about self esteem,stress,depression,bullying, violence, drugs ( alcohol, smoking ) .There are also a f ...
The worksheet is based on the song Pompeii by the British group Bastille. This song is great for practising phrasal verbs and idioms. Besides the song tells us about the volcano eruption that happ ...
This is a PPT based on a 3-min video called "8 Secrets of Success" on TED.com. It is useful for practicing speaking skills, especially discussion about topics and behaviours related to success; an ...
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