This C2-level lesson uses civil unrest as a thematic framework to develop students’ English language skills through diverse activities such as opinion discussions, vocabulary gap-fills, sentence rearrangement, and guided dialogue practice.
Warm-up
Students discuss whether they agree or disagree with certain opinions and explain why.
Video
Students watch an informative video titled “US military confirms 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles as protests grow.” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise, connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.
Exercises
Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students complete the gaps in sentences with correct words. In the second exercise, they complete sentences so that they have a similar meanings to the original sentences. Finally, students read scenarios about civil unrest and identify the primary causes that led to them.
Writing
Together with the teacher, students create two dialogues between a community leader and a concerned citizen discussing civil unrest situations.
Reading
Students read a text about civil unrest and answer questions about the text to test their reading comprehension.
Discussion
The students rearrange the words to form questions, then answer them.
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