Introduction
How many friends have you got on Facebook? What’s the friend limit on Facebook? This lesson takes a look at trends in online social networking. It gives students chance to create an imaginary online 'wall' where they can interact with each other.
Topic
Social networking websites
Age
Teenage/adult
Level
B1/B2
Time
60-90 mins
Aims
- To help students talk about Facebook and other social networking websites
- To develop students’ reading skills
- To develop students’ question formation skills
- To develop students’ communication skills
Materials
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.
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Worksheets: can be printed out for use in class.
- worksheet - seven tasks
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Comments
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Sally
I'm going to try it
Today I'm going to try it, I hope it'll be fine !
Thanks for lesson plan
It is good that we recognize Facebook is increasingly being used and having some lessons formulated around it. Although it is not that hard to sign up and use, privacy issues, how to ignore friends, rejecting friends and other more sensitive aspects with regards to using Facebook should be taught in class.
It is hard
For me - working with internet and computer for more than 10 Years - Facebook is one of biggest challenges to managed. It's not the "i Like" button, but the tons of features und privacy issues that have to be handled carefully. If you publish photos the wrong way, everybody can see them, copy them, change them or do other things with that. And if this is hard for me, i guess it is hard for a lot of people.
Looking forward to further modules
I think that the Facebook nowadays have become one of the most useful ways of communicating among the teens. So this lesson can be very valuable for them and us as teachers,too. Thank you very much .We are looking forward to receiving further models on this topic.
Facebook lesson
I'm going to try this with my PET group next week, i think they'll enjoy it
thanks
Facebook-social networking
I really enjoy sharing with my students'experiences on the internet.
Facebook lesson
It is such an interesting lesson. Most of our students today enjoy using facebook , twitter and other social networking. So using a text about what they enjoy doing like this is such a great idea of developing reading and communication skills . But let us also have values integration in this lesson. Maybe on how to use social networking properly. The status, blogs and pictures to be posted should be informative and respectful.
thank you