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Bullying


Age Group: fourteen-year- old students

Language Level: Upper-Intermediate

Language Areas: Writing, Speaking, Listening, Reading

Number of students: 20 

Duration: 2 lessons . 80 minutes each

Physical Location: Classroom and Computer Laboratory

Topic: Bullying

 Grammar Point: (Conditional 2 ) "What would you do if you were.... (situation)?) + (Should) Giving advice

Websites Evaluation: 

 Craig, W (2014) Bullying Prevention and Intervention in the School Environment Nature: Techniques for Staying Alive in Every Natural Environment. (n.d.). Retrieved from  
https://www.prevnet.ca/sites/prevnet.ca/files/prevnet_facts_and_tools_for_schools.pdf

 Accuracy: Reliable source

 Currency: Even though it was written in 2014, the content matches reality

 Content: It matches the students' interest since it is not any kind of bullying but bullying at school.

 Funcionality: Works perfectly well



(2018) Alannah and Madeline Foundation. National Centre Against Bullying. Retrieved from https://www.ncab.org.au/bullying-advice/bullying-for-parents/types-of-bullying/

Accuracy: Reliable source
Currency: super updated 2018
Content: interesting and matching students' reality. It promotes autonomous work because it has the key to the exercises.
Funcionality: A bit slow sometimes

(2018) Oxford Universtity Press. English File Students' Site. Retrieved from
https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/upperint3/grammar/file05/nef_int_grammar05_a01?cc=ar&selLanguage=en
Accuracy: It is quite accurate. I have checked against the key checker and throws accurate results
Currency: updated 
Content: It deals with grammar, vocabulary and games related to them.
Funcionality: it works properly

 (2018) Family Lives. Listening, supportive and non-judgemental. Retrieved from https://www.familylives.org.uk/?_ga=2.88994076.627065316.1531255722-1617968971.1531255722
Accuracy: Though the author is not mentioned, the content seems reliable. It contains links to other webpages related to bullying tips, which may provide the reader with a variety of perspectives on the same topic.
Currency: The information is factual and very bound to modifications.
Content: The content of the article may be a bit long but it is well organised and divided. The layout looks appealing for their age
Funcionality: The website works properly well

  (2018)  Ditch the label. Top ten tips for overcoming bullying. Retrieved fromhttps://www.ditchthelabel.org/top-10-tips-for-overcoming-bullying/?gclid=CjwKCAjwspHaBRBFEiwA0eM3kcDyvwk6MMTM-A_bUwTLMsIWvwA4h9Q-o6ywjFe8PCT2x_ji4q2lkhoCowMQAvD_BwE
Accuracy: One of the largest anti-bullying charities in the world. 
Currency: updated and doomed to change
Content: They provide crucial support and share tips to overcome bullying
Funcionality: All the links work perfectly well. 

 (2015) What is bullying. Retrieved from
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPpT-oZcP0 
Accuracy: This video does not posses the best definition on bullying but it does provide very appealing images and that is why this has been introduced as a warmer.
Currency: It is not so updated and it is not doomed to change since it is a video
Content: They provide concepts and definitions, easy to understand and acquire
Funcionality: The website works perfecly well. 


Class 1:

The teacher will write the word “Bullying” on the board and will elicit from the students what it is that they understand by this term. She will write the student’s responses or the words that the students mention on the board. She will also ask them whether they have ever been bullied or whether they know somebody who has been. 



Once the teacher gets a picture of how much the students know about the topic, she will show the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPpT-oZcP0




WEB: 

What are the forms of bullying?

Click on any of the following links :  





https://www.ncab.org.au/bullying-advice/bullying-for-parents/types-of-bullying/





1- Based on the information about the different types of bullying, please, fill in the different categories with the actions below: 




 A- Hitting
B- Kicking, Shoving, . Beating up, stealing, or damaging property. 
C- Name-calling 
D- Mocking
E- Hurtful teasing,
F- Humiliating or threatening someone
G- Spitting
H- Racist or Sexist comments
I-  Harassment. 
J- Excluding others from the group
K- Gossiping or spreading rumours 
L- Setting others up to look foolish
M- Damaging friendships
N- Treating people badly because of their identity
O- Saying bad things about a culture
P- Calling someone racist names
Q- Telling racist jokes o treating people badly because of their religion or beliefs
R- Saying bad things about a religion or belief
S- Calling someone names
T- Leaving someone out or treating them badly because they are a boy or a girl
U- Making someone feel uncomfortable because of their sexual orientation/gender identity/gender expression
V- Making someone feel uncomfortable because of a disability (e.g., mental or physical)4 4) 
W - Using email, cell phones, text messages, and internet sites to threaten, harass, embarrass
X-  Socially exclude, or damage reputations and friendships

2- Go to the following link https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/upperint3/grammar/file05/nef_int_grammar05_a01?cc=ar&selLanguage=en and practice second conditional to see how much you remember from last time.

The students wil be able to do autonomous work since this website possesses the keys to all exercises.




What's next?


The students will have to foster awareness on the consequences of bullying by writing questions using the second conditional in a word processor. The purpose of this activity is that the students brainstorm and wrote questions and reflect upon scenarios such as "What would you do if you saw a classmate of yours being treated badly by other?, Who would you talk to if you saw a classmate of yours telling racist jokes? They are going to work with a word processor and print out the document for next class.



Class 2 

 Warmer:


The teacher will ask the student to split into groups of four. The teacher will ask each group to share their scenarios and questions with their classmates and the other groups to start remembering concepts from last class.





Web:


Activity 1: The students will prepare posters with questions and will stick the on the school corridors. Then they will go to the computer lab and get ready for activity number 2.




Activity 2:


try to answer them as fully as possible using the modal verb should for giving advice:

a- You should tell a teacher.
b- You should go with the person being bullied and back up what they say to the teacher.
v- You should tell the person being bullied that you will help them to tell their parents.




What's next:


The students will hang envelopes on the corridors where shy students who still do not feel confident enough to tell that they are being bullied can put in writings saying in which classroom a certain kind of bullying is being suffered. The students in charge can collect the envelopes and eventually talk to the authorities as soon as possible

Bibliography

Dudeney,G. & Hockly N. Using Websites.

Harmer. J. How to Teach English with Technology. 

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