OPENCities is an ambitious exploratory project which aims to capitalize on the many resources that a diverse population can bring to a city without ignoring the challenges that successful integration involves. We aim to engage over a 100 cities and develop OPENCities into a kitemark for cities worldwide.

OPENCities offers several speaking and listening activities, including audio, as well as 4 comprehensive thematic lesson plans and accompanying worksheets ready to download.

To find out more you can sign up for the OPENCities newsletter or by visiting the OPENCities website.

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lesson plans 
OPENCities – Lesson 2: Why do people migrate?

Topic: Human Migration

Level: Intermediate +

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


Introduction:
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

Plan components

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

Download lesson plan

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

 Download worksheets

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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