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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Objectives: 1. Students will learn and appreciate the fact that the war involved friends fighting against friends. 2. Students will be able to identify three different roles that women played in t ...
Readings x3 (250/280/600 approx word count with comprehension questions and linked exercises) / Word classes (n. or v. etc…) / Listening Gap Fill / Synonyms / Scrambled word syntax / Scram ...
A song worksheet by Justin Bieber entitled "Pray" suitable for different topics such as war, starvation, homelessness, and poverty around the world. pupils reorder the lines, fill in the gaps, and ...
1st step: show/hand out copies of this cloud text (I Have A Dream) and ask students to predict what the text about is or who the author is. Highlight that the larger words are larger because they ...
This worksheet includes listening,reading comrehension and a crossword about the topic of apology and forgiveness. The students are asked to listen to the song and to complete the lyrics. Then the ...
This worksheet is a combination of listening, reading comrehension and writing about the topic of solidaity. The students are asked to listen to the song and to complete the lyrics. Then they will ...
This worksheet is about self-sacrifice to look after disabled people. It is about character and personality. In this worksheet, there are two activities to consolidate the use of phrasal verbs and ...
Watch the video clip of we are the world, and complete with words you hear. Then there are compehension questions that help to better understand the topic. Then the students are asked to label th ...
I did a lesson on Bob Marley's war song. I asked the students to listen to the song and then identify the singer. I then gave them a snap shot of his biography. I asked them to listen to the song ...
This is something I use in the computer lab, so the students can first do some quick research on the internet, then individually listen to the parts of the video they have most difficulties with. ...
Small clips with interviews about poverty and homelessness. Represented are common people and their opinion about homelessness and poverty and homeless people and their story. There are questions ...
Small animated films with children telling about what it's like to be poor. It's real children telling their sad stories - but their characters are animated. There are comprehension questions for ...
A good warm up activity / set induction for War or Social Issues themed lessons. Words omitted from the lyric are vocabulary that can be related to the theme. Link to the video is below. Can use o ...
This word search includes words related to civil rights. List of words used in this word search: WOMEN, LUTHERKING, DREAM, DISCRIMINATION, TABOO, AWARENESS, FIGHT, PREJUDICE, DIGNITY, SEGREGATION ...
This worksheet explores topics such us youth, music and urban tribes. It contains lots of excercises to work with young students. In the first part, students will explore different music styles a ...
A worksheet for a song called 'Uprising' by a British band Muse. It's quite a difficult one, hope someone will enjoy it. It's supposed for thinking students with a vivid imagination who are intere ...
Here's a few speaking activities followed by listening activities on the theme of domestic violence and based on the song by Suzanne Vega, LUKA. They speak about posters, reconstitute the lyrics o ...
The necessary vocabulary to talk about voluntary work and charity. Should be particularly helpful when teaching a lesson on one of these topics. Hope you find it useful! List of words used in thi ...
This was a fun song worksheet and lesson-filler, as opposed to a grammar-focused worksheet, in order to give my students a reward for some hard work the previous week. Therefore, the main focus of ...
It contains a text with the title The story behind the bus which can be used within the subject of racism and discrimination, human and civil rights. It also contains questions to check ...
A text for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, which helps them develop their reading skills. The artcle is not very difficult and quite interesting. Hope it will be useful for your stud ...
The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time – such as the Polish Round Table Agreement and fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc ...
This worksheet (3 pages) is about Famine. Sts have to make a list with immediate needs and future needs, make up sentences by using must, can, will, should, might and could. On the last page sts h ...
It's a lesson about 'Child Labor'. Students will first work in pairs to match each comment with its appropriate picture. Second, they will sit in groups to answer and discuss some questions. The s ...
This is a worksheet intended for upper intermediate students. Students are asked to cope with pre- while- and post listening activities. The song of Mia (from Slumdog Millionnaire) is quite contro ...
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![Song Worksheet: Times Like These by Jack Johnson [WITH VIDEO]](https://busyteacher.org/uploads/posts/2011-08/1313727486_jj.jpg)
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