Turning Adversity into Opportunity

Level: Upper-Intermediate/Advanced

Duration: 60 minutes

Theme: Turning Adversity into Opportunity (Disability)

Aims:

• Raise students' awareness of a social issue
• Practice speaking, listening and reflective skills
• Change the students' attitudes

Objectives
By the end of this lesson students will be able to:

• Use target vocabulary related to the topic of the lesson
• Understand and define the notion of disability and present arguments in the controversy surrounding the topic
• Recognize different types of disability
• Take a stance and express reflections on the topic

Components:

• Lesson Plan (pdf)
• Lesson Plan (Word)

The lesson plan includes the following TED Talk.



Online lesson available on the TED-Ed platform

Modern-Day Slavery

Level: Upper-Intermediate/Advanced

Duration: 90 minutes

Theme: Social Justice; Modern-Day Slavery

Aims:

• Raise students' awareness of a social issue 
• Practice speaking, listening and reflective skills 
• Motivate learners to take action against social injustice 

Objectives

By the end of this lesson students will be able to:

• Understand and define the notion of human trafficking and modern-day slavery
• Understand and use vocabulary related to the topic of modern-day slavery
• Recognize different types of modern-day slavery
• Take a stance and write a reflective essay on the topic

Components:

• Lesson Plan (pdf) 
• Lesson Plan (Word) 
• PowerPoint Presentation (see Appendix 3 in the Lesson Plan)

Photo credit: Ira Gelb

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The lesson plan includes the following TED Talk:

Online lesson available on the TED-Ed platform at http://ed.ted.com/on/8Le9f3sB 

This lesson plan was a CaLiMeRo Competition Prize Winner (2015) offering a free place on the Sharing One Language, SO(U)L, Camp in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia, in August, 2015.