October 28, 2022: Pets and Children

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to discuss and compare different cities based on various livability factors.

“Dragon’s Den” is a British TV show where people with business ideas go to ask rich investors for money. They show the investors their ideas and try to convince them to give them money in exchange for a part of their business.

Remember life before smartphones and the internet? This week, we’re taking a fun trip down memory lane to 1990! We’ll play an interactive game to compare our lives ‘then and now,’ sharing stories and practicing useful phrases for talking about the past.

In 2018 France France voted to ban smartphones and personal tablets from schools. Students aged between 3 and 15 are prohibited from bringing their devices to school. The ban is part of a campaign to reduce addiction to electronics.

We’ll be using story dice again, but instead of using Dan Harmon’s Story Circle, we’ll be using a simplified version of “Nelson’s 9 Steps for Story Writing” to wrote short stories about travel adventures.

This activity uses a story to promote discussion and problem-solving skills. Students are put into small groups and given one paragraph of a story at a time. After reading each paragraph, the groups will discuss possible solutions or advice for the character in the story.