OPENCities – Lesson 2: Why do people migrate?

OPENCities is a collaboration project between the British Council, European Commission, City Governments world-wide, and a growing range of institutional partners. The lesson plans in this series aim to support understanding of the potential for cities to more fully embrace the opportunities presented by international population flows.

 

Introduction:

OPENCities is a collaboration project between the British Council, European Commission, City Governments world-wide, and a growing range of institutional partners. The lesson plans in this series aim to support understanding of the potential for cities to more fully embrace the opportunities presented by international population flows.

This lesson plan explores some of the issues associated with cultural and environmental adjustments and looks at some of ways in which these have impacted on the lives of migrants in different cities and countries. This is a strong underlying theme of the OPENCities project www.opencities.eu

Topic

Human Migration

Level

Intermediate +

Time

60 minutes +

Aims:

  • To develop students’ skills communication skills
  • To develop students' vocabulary around the topic of human migration
  • To help students understand some of the issues regarding human migration

Materials

Lesson Plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.

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Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheets contain:

  • Discussion tasks
  • Vocabularly building tasks
  • Reading activities
  • Listening activities
  • Consolidation activities

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Audio: This can also be downloaded

Copyright - please read
All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place these materials on any other web site without written permission from the BBC and British Council. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org

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Comments

Submitted by Gerardc on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 02:49

A big thank you to British Council for providing these downloads.
I volunteer my teaching services to new migrants at the local
Salvation Army Church, and this excellent comprehensive resource
has been a boon.

Submitted by Paul Braddock on Fri, 08/05/2022 - 07:46

In reply to by Gerardc

Hi Gerardc

Thank you for your feedback. We are glad the resources are useful.

Paul (TeachingEnglish team)

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