Supporting city openness

This is a listening activity aimed at intermediate level adult and young adult students.

Introduction
It explores the ways cities can attract and help with the integration of migrants into the local culture and society. The activity is based on themes and text from the OPENCities project. 

Learning outcomes

  • Listening for gist and specific information
  • Discuss the 8 factors that make an OPENcity

Age and level: 13-17 and adult (CEFR B1)

Time: 80 minutes. This can be done over 2 lessons

Materials:

  • Lesson plan
  • Audio
  • Audio transcript

Other lesson plans in this series:

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-adults/lesson-plans/intermediate-b1/opencities-lesson-2-why-do-people

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Lesson plan153.32 KB
Audio1.51 MB
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