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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Voluntary work in the USA. Original text retrieved from www.widegeek.com: text, activities,workcamps by Elix.Oral & writing activities and a fill in vocabulary exercise retrieved from www.elix ...
I use this song as a revision or an introduction of I WISH structure. The song has become an anthem for the civil right movement so it can also be used to discuss the problem of racism and discrim ...
This is a worksheet to be used with the final episode of the BBC's Africa television series. I created this for an Intermediate class studying the Nature unit of the IELTS Target 5.0 student book. ...
This presentation gives detailed information about how people communicate, how they communicated in the past. It is more concentrated on the traditional ways of communicating,Internet commun ...
Help 6th formers put their survival vocabulary and critical thinking skills into practice by using this webquest. It is to be used over three 60 minute sessions and Internet access is essential. I ...
The video worksheet is targeted on Upper-Intermediate level students doing a General English course. Before viewing the students comment on the heading and describe the picture. They look through ...
I prepared this worksheet for an elementary level (A2) class. I devised it as an end-of-lesson filler, but it can be a starter too. Since this song is very well-known, the proposed activity (that ...
While they are watching the movie, students will have to analyze the characters, the settings, the different sequences of the film. Listening comprehension as well as writing skill can be assesse ...
This worksheet is about the event that occurred recently in December in the USA. Since my students were working on the social issue of weapons in the USA, I decided to make them read an article ab ...
The worksheet includes a fill in the blanks activity and four follow-up questions for students to discuss in groups. You may add a warm-up activity, such as a prediction about what kind of rehab t ...
listening and reading comprehensions +video. This is about bullying and its possible consequences. With another teacher we used it as a test for our pupils in France. At the end of the sequen ...
This is a reading worksheet about the current economic crisis with a family on the poverty line in the UK. There is also a video about squatters in Seville and then also there is a debate about th ...
This worksheet goes along with the TED talk of a successful businesswoman from Iceland. I watched it with my Business English Upper-Intermediate students, when we dealt with the topic "Risk" (Mark ...
It's a worksheet related to beauty, which provides more than vocabulary, but a meaningful discussion about the importance of appearence with questions that are going to make your students think an ...
A worksheet to work with the students after watching the film. The film can be found easily in youtube. I found out this is a way to make our students to be aware of what domestic violence is an ...
This worksheet has 10 situations for discussion. Students should be divided into two teams. The captain of one team gives the situation to the member of the opponent team. He has to listen careful ...
This is designed to be a speaking activity for upper - intermediate students. It has a frame work so that the teacher can intervien when necessary but allows students to openly express opinions. ...
This worksheet is both meant as an oral comprehension and a reading comprehension worksheet (level B1 in the CEFR). It also intends to bring some historical landmarks in connection with the conte ...
From the end of slavery to the Civil Rights Movement. This webquest allows pupils to become conscious of the evolution of the racial issues faced by the African Americans over the last hundred a ...
This is a PowerPoint presentation about stereotypes. The first part [long] is about nationalities - it's a presentation with discussion 'Do you think this is true or false?'. The second part [shor ...
Here is a read-and-match activity devised to get your students talking, laughing and learning/revising vocabulary in an unusual context. Use it to generate a discussion about gender stereotypes, d ...
I use this as an extra credit possibility for my students. Students choose a recent event and prepare an oral presentation of it (news flash - in depth look etc...) They can use note cards, but ...
human rights:The worksheet deals with the topic of racism. It depicts the hardships faced by black Americans in the past by slave owners. It portrays also their sufferings and struggles to become ...
A simple worksheet about the topic: Environment - endangered species and Fauna. It's a simple text for intermediate students that can be used either as a test or as motivation to start the unit on ...
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