Essential UK

Essential UK provides lesson plans, materials, activities and useful links based on contemporary United Kingdom topics and issues

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

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

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

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

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

The Windrush generation  
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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  
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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:

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