Global issues activity and request for ideas

BMJ · Post by **BMJ** » Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:22 pm

I wanted to share a new activity I've made. It's a worksheet that deals with the subject of poor families around the world getting paid to send their children to school. You can download the activity here:

http://zachary-jones.com/english/2010/0 ... to-school/

This is the second article in my "Global Issues" set of activities. The first one was a video and worksheet activity about development in the Dominican Republic. Here's the link if you want to check that one out, too:

http://zachary-jones.com/english/2009/1 ... -republic/

However, now I've found that my ideas have run thin. I would like to continue doing these types of activities, but I have developed a bit of writer's block and would like to get some input from other teachers. What "Global Issue" do you think would be good to cover in the ESL classroom?

Thanks so much for the help!

Syl · Post by **Syl** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:36 pm

Zachary, I was starting to prepare a long list for you, then I preferred to do some search and found an excellent site, look at this:

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/speec ... -kids.html

By the way, both activities you published here are excellent, keep up the good work.

Syl

BMJ · Post by **BMJ** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:34 pm

Thanks Syl!

I've bookmarked that site - it looks like there are a lot of great ideas I can use!

Syl · Post by **Syl** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:06 pm

Great! I'm happy I could help:)