Identity and Stereotypes
Listening
- Listen to someone talking about his family history.
- Listen to a set of interviews.
- Listen to people talk about landmarks in their lives.
- Listen to people talk about their regrets.
- Listen to and watch ads that challenge stereotypes.
- Listen to people talking about national stereotypes.
- Listen to people describing what they like/hate about others.
Speaking
- Compare personality test results with your classmates.
- Talk about your personality: weak and strong points.
- Discuss peer pressure issues: Bullying, hooliganism.
- Discuss what makes us the way we are: background/genes/culture/environment/education.
- Discuss how to prevent and stop violent behaviour in football matches.
- Talk about types of interviews and interview experiences: role-play an interview.
- Talk about important people in your life.
- Discuss the role played by media in the way we perceive ourselves.
- Comment on results of a questionnaire on empathy.
- Talk about and share a memorable moment in your life with your classmates.
- Describe a photo portrait. Explain the reason of your choice.
- Oral presentation on walls built in the last 25 years all over the world. Where? Why? How long? Type? Testimonies?
Reading
- Read news stories
- Read a report on football violence.
- Read your classmates’ narratives
- Read your classmates’ “I poems”
- Read and answer questionnaires on gender attitudes.
- Read texts from blogs and websites dealing with identity.
- Read a newspaper article to identify facts and opinions.
- Read non abridged articles on gender issues from quality newspapers
- Read a short story from Frozen Pizza by Antoinette Moses:
Writing
- Contribute with a comment on a forum/ web page/blog/on line magazine.
- Write a review of an add.
- Write a description of a person.
- Write an “I am poem”.
- Write a short narrative of a memorable experience. Describe your feelings and reactions.
- Write summaries of class sessions.
- Write a summary of a talk.
- Write a questionnaire.
- Write a set of thought provoking questions.
Language knowledge and usage
- Question forms including subject/object questions and questions with propositions:
- https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/question-forms-subjectobject-questions.
- Past tenses and irregular verbs.
- Review of verb tenses: Present and past simple versus present and past continuous: Past simple versus present perfect.
- Collocations: get/take/do
Vocabulary
- Relationships
- People’s personality and looks.
- Feelings and emotions.
- Family.
- Friends.
