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 a very simple, unattractive .ppt. I use this as a way to get students to talk. So far they seem to like it. (Chinese 18-22y.o) Each slide has a topic/situation to talk about. I make the st ...
A simple listening exercise. Students are asked to watch the video and complete the missing gaps with the correct word. Then should be able to solve the following exercises based on the lyrics: an ...
This worksheet can form the basis of a TV debate. It asks students basic questions about their TV habits and the possible advantages and disadvantages of watching TV. After students have written a ...
Looking for subject matters to get debates and discussions going. Here's a list to stimulate you. Also comes in quite handy as speaking in groups at oral exams. Subjects that are part of our youn ...
Ss will discuss about the prostitution in their countries Students could work in pairs and read one text each, then report to each other. Ask students who they most agree with - Helen Ma ...
Vocabulary fill in the blanks exercise, suitable to use with students at lower pre-int or pre-int level (Surrounded, intend, rural, evolved , according to,permission ,origin , migrate , fa ...
This is a short documentary about a popular activity with tourists in Amsterdam, that combines sightseeing with beer drinking. It describes the activity, there are interviews of locals and touris ...
This is a listening and speaking activity which would best suit upper intermediate and advanced classes. It is a short sketch by Alan Carr at the Apollo where he's talking about buying a property ...
This worksheet is intended to encourage students to discuss capital punishment and what they think of it. The lesson is introduced by a song called " The Iron Lady" and then students are given an ...
The worksheet is intended to teach argumentative writing and the suggested layout. Students are prompted to the lesson by a short video about the topic of "Euthanasia". They first watch the video ...
It includes a set of activities for comprehension on the movie Gifted Hands: Ben Carson's Story. It can also be used as a practice test after watching the whole movie. The worsheet contains Gramma ...
Using essential words for the IELTS - social networking - intermediate word-search puzzle for business and/or vocabulary building class. You can use the worksheet as is for searching and you can a ...
This is a short documentary about an American man, called Richard Lee, who runs coffee shop that is a marijuana dispensary. The video also shows Oaksterdam University, where students train for th ...
This worksheet discusses corporate ethics (i.e. whether big companies act in an ethical manner) in the context of the Durban climate summit. Students discuss their opinions on the matter, listen t ...
Questions for speaking practice could be a lead-in to a video or a movie. it contains general as well as personal questions for the students to exchange. it coud be done in pairs or groups then th ...
This matching and gap fill exercise coincides with Chapter 8 of "Step Up to IELTS." It was created as a scaffolding tool to prepare students for vocabulary for listening practice related to Red Cr ...
This is a well known song by this famous pop singer, sting, that can be very useful if you are planning to deal with different culture and daily issues according to culture. You can work with the ...
This is a song that many people know because it was performed by Glee. This song is great to work on vocabulary and a little bit of present Progressive. Also, it is really good for students to ana ...
This is a article reading and understanding worksheet. It is about the Immigration Issues in the UK. The article is from a UK news paper. The students read the article and then review the Vocabula ...
50 minute documentary on Cryogenics and a woman who has cancer who decided to be frozen. Vocabulary and definition matching exercise. Questions to answer while watching the documentary. Discussion ...
45 minute documentary on the sinking of the Concordia. The worksheet includes a vocabulary matching activity, questions to answer while watching the documentary and a list of discussion questions ...
This worksheet comprises 5 pictures, each representing a scene in the film Invictus. 5 groups of students (take more photos of other scenes if you need more groups) get 1 picture and 6 questions t ...
Invictus - Plot: Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, decides to use the upcoming Rugby World Cup games to re-define South Africa and encourage coloured and white South Africans to cooperate ...
This handout can help you/your Ss to learn new vocabulary and start heated discussion in the class on the topic Bribery and Corruption. It focuses on language in use and vocab as well as speaking ...
It's a wonderful reading about how black people escaped from slavery, beginning the journey from the USA to Canada. In the second slide you can find some questions with this you can work their kno ...
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