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THEME 3 HUMAN RIGHTS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Expressing ideas on human rights (gender equality, children rights…)
12 GRADE F2 Making suggestions
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F3 Discussing problems
9 Wise Sayings

This activity aims to encourage students to infer the problems from a meaningful context and to relay
these problems to their friends. It also helps them to express their views on a specific topic presented.

Materials and Preparation

Photocopy one worksheet on page 68 for each pair of students.

Procedure

1 Put the class into pairs and hand out each pair of students a worksheet. Tell them that they are
going to read the quotes and discuss with their partners what kinds of social problems wise persons
might have expressed. And, they are going to find and discuss the problem/problems in each quote
in turns.
2 Remind them that they will not only say the name of the problem/problems on the worksheet but
also express their views on the topic reciprocally. Have students take notes about the quote they
will talk about on a blank paper so that they can speak confidently and fluently when they express
their ideas.
3 After they have finished the activity, ask them to share their views on each problem they have
discussed with their partners based on their notes with the class. Let them ask and answer each
other the questions about the problems they have found in the context.

10 Conveying the News

This activity aims to help students convey a text to the group members without losing the close meaning
of the text itself, engaging with the language and the vocabulary effectively to create a new meaningful
context. It also helps them to discuss the human rights problems and making suggestions for the
existing problems.

Materials and Preparation

Photocopy the worksheet on page 69 for each group of six and cut up the cards.

Procedure

1 Put the class into an even number of groups with six students and give each group a set of cards.
Tell them that they are going to read a paragraph and retell the paragraph with their own words and
structures to the group members. Remind them that they should focus on the answers to who, what,
when, where, and how questions to consider the main meaning in the paragraph while relaying it.
2 Ask all group members to have a card and skim the paragraph to check the unknown words. If they
have challenges with the meaning of the words or structures, let them use a dictionary or help each
other. Have students retell their own paragraphs to the group members, and monitor them if they
take the paragraph’s close meaning into account or not.
3 When they have told their own paragraph, ask them to swap the cards with each other in the group.
Remind them that the six cards will be retold by each student in the group separately. If needed,
they can take notes before telling the card.
4 Then, ask students to sequence the cards to make a meaningful text. Check the answers with the
class. Have students find and discuss the human rights violations in the text and make suggestions
for the existing problems. Let them share their answers with the class.
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