Explore whether people can truly change while developing advanced vocabulary, critical thinking, and IELTS exam skills.
Main objectives of this material
- Develop advanced vocabulary related to civil unrest and economic hardship, including terms such as loot, condemn, prosecute, breach, disperse, descend into chaos, capitalize on and lawlessness, through a ten-item word-to-definition matching task, a ten-sentence completion exercise and a 25-card flashcard set.
- Strengthen listening comprehension and critical discussion skills by analysing the BBC News report on the protests across France (over 500,000 demonstrators, around 400 arrests, civic buildings damaged in Lyon, Limoges and Marseilles) through three open questions, three true-or-false statements and three multiple-choice questions, then debating law enforcement, economic concessions and media framing of protests.
- Learn and practise the formal news passive used in journalism, transforming ten active sentences with were arrested, was breached, will be prosecuted and are being squeezed, so that learners can report events the way news outlets do.
- Strengthen listening comprehension and critical discussion skills by analysing the BBC News report on the protests across France (over 500,000 demonstrators, around 400 arrests, civic buildings damaged in Lyon, Limoges and Marseilles) through three open questions, three true-or-false statements and three multiple-choice questions, then debating law enforcement, economic concessions and media framing of protests.
What students are going to cover
In this lesson, students will explore why citizens across Europe take to the streets over surging energy, fuel and housing costs, using a BBC News video report on the protests across France. They build vocabulary related to civil disorder and economic hardship in a ten-item matching task and a ten-sentence gap-fill, then watch the report in three timed parts and answer three open, three true-or-false and three multiple-choice questions. A discussion stage covers law enforcement versus economic concessions and the line between genuine peaceful demonstrators and an opportunistic minority. The grammar focus presents the formal news passive with examples from the video and a ten-sentence active-to-passive practice. Homework includes a 120-150 word summary and an 80-100 word opinion paragraph on The Independent article about cost-of-living protests from Paris to Milan, a synonym task with turmoil, eviction and mounting, two gap-fills and a video extension. The package adds a teacher version, an interactive PDF, 21 slides, 25 flashcards and 24 speaking cards. By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to describe civil unrest with precise news vocabulary, report events in the formal news passive, and argue a position on how governments should respond to protests over living costs.
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