5-20 ESL Intro to Social Issues

Identifying Social Issues in our CommunityCrowe 2015

Objective and Warm Up• Objective: IWBAT identify and define relevant social issues through discussion

based on a video clip, and discuss what social issues are present in my daily life in my community, by sharing what I know about each issue in spoken and written statements.

• Language Objective: IWBAT use sentence starters to create complete statements in English incorporating new content vocabulary in order to express what I already know about these issues.

Warm Up (10 minutes)

Use the post it notes to make comments about the images and you see around the room.

1. Look at the picture.2. Write words, phrases or sentences to describe what you see

or what you know.3. Use the examples to help you form statements in English!

Class Definitions and Word BankTurn and Talk (3 minutes): Discuss what you wrote on your post it notes for each chart. • What are social Issues?• How will we define these terms for use in our classroom?

• What other words are important to include with our definition?

• What are examples of social issues?

• How are social issues related to place? • How are cities different in cities? • Why do you think this may be?

VideoWatch the video and take notes.

• What social issue is evident in this video?

• How so? Explain using evidence from the movie clip.

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Where do we see Social Issues in our Community?

• What social issues do you see in your neighborhood?• What social issues do you see in the community around you? Use the sentence starter below, find TWO other people in the room to share out, your completed sentence.

The social issues that I see in my neighborhood are….I know this because…

I see __________ and ___________ in my community.Social issues like ________ affect my community because…

The social issues that affect me are…I say this because…

Poverty

How would you describe these people and the way they live? Why?

Crime• How does crime affect the people you see in these

images?

Immigration• Why is immigration a social issue?

Violence• How does violence affect the people in a

community?

EducationWhy is education a social issue?

DivorceHow is divorce a social issue?

How could this issue affect others in the community?

Where do we see Social Issues in our Community?

• What social issues do you see in your neighborhood?• What social issues do you see in the community around you? Use the sentence starter below, find TWO other people in the room to share out, your completed sentence.

The social issues that I see in my neighborhood are….I know this because…

I see __________ and ___________ in my community.Social issues like ________ affect my community because…

The social issues that affect me are…I say this because…

Exit Ticket

Silent and Independent

Complete the following sentence frame in English…

The social issues present in my community are…

I think this because….