Objectives:
- To raise students awareness of bullying and how it can affect its victims.
- To improve students' listening and speaking skills.
- To make students aware of the different ways people can be bullied ( calling people names, teasing them, spreading rumours behind their backs...)
- Discuss what to do in bullying situations.
- To find ways to stop bullying.
Pre-Listening Activity or Warm-Up:
- Ask students how they define bullying.
- Ask students to give examples of what they think bullying is.
- Ask students what cyberbullying is.
- Ask students if they have ever been bullied or if they know someone who has been bullied.
- Teach students vocabulary such as: bullied, bullying, bystander, victim...
- Talk about feelings.
Listening Activity:
This can be done in class or if we want to flip the classroom, we can tell our students to watch the video at home and answer the open-ended and multiple choice questions prepared for the activity. As a flipped classroom activity, this could be motivating for our students as it would be something different to what we usually do in class.
https://edpuzzle.com/media/5e693923250f9f40d2f763f3
One advantage of Edpuzzle is that it can help us to prepare motivating listening and speaking activities adapting whatever authentic real videos we like to the level and necessities of our students.
Post-Listening Activities:
- Share students answers in class.
- In small groups students discuss what to do in bullying situations.
- In small groups students discuss and try to find different ways to stop bullying.
- We share in a big group all the ideas.
- We listen to the song ‘Hopeful’ by Bars & Melody and do some comprehension and fill in the gaps activities.
