social issues

Credit Crunch

Jo Budden — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:05:01 +0000

Age range: 12 - adult
Theme: Econmic crisis
Lexical area: Money

Show Racism the Red Card

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:13:59 +0000

Theme: Football in the UK and campaigns against racism in sport
Lexical area: Sport, football and racism

Freedom and you

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:13:16 +0000

Theme: personal safety and parental control
Lexical area: permission and obligation

Young roots

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:12:42 +0000

Theme: Talking about cultural heritage and community. Youth work in the UK.
Lexical areas: adjectives to describe geographical areas, talking about family

Fundraising UK style

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:12:04 +0000

Theme: Fundraising by charity appeals in the UK . The types of charitable cause in the UK today.
Lexical area: Money and related vocabulary: raise, donate, earn, sell, spend, and fundraising : sponsorship

Faith

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:11:02 +0000

Theme: Religious diversity in the UK and the faith schools debate
Lexical area: Religions
Cross curricular links: Religion, Personal and Social Education

Too young to vote

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:10:20 +0000

Theme: Lowering the voting age, young people's rights and responsibilities
Lexical area: Politics, Voting, Elections, Policies

Friends

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:09:46 +0000

Theme: Friendship, using text messages and types of relationship
Lexical area: Adjectives to describe personality, methods of communicating, SMS messages

The Windrush generation

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:09:17 +0000

Theme: The difficulties faced by immigrants coming to the UK and the origins of the Black community.
Lexical area: Immigration, adjectives to describe feelings and nationality and identity.

Young drinkers

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:08:45 +0000

Theme: Drinking habits in the UK and binge drinking problems. Rites of passage.
Lexical area: Alcohol and adverbs of frequency. Language used to describe quantity: