- Language used in biographies
- Language in quotes
- Giving opinions
- Vocabulary on active forms of citizenship (school anti-litter campaign, raising funds, buying fair-trade, etc)
- Concept of democracy and active citizenship
- Different ways of taking action as active citizens (helping the environment, donating clothes to charities, etc)
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- Reading for general and specific information
- Finding out specific information on the web
- Using language and visual items in a creative way to design a poster
- Matching heads and tails
- Recognising what a person below 18 can and can’t do
- Listening to a song for relaxing and getting the general meaning
- Working on a project based on a powerpoint presentation
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- Interest in knowing about people that have fought for the defence of human rights
- Equality of human beings
- Acceptance of peaceful protests instead of violent ones
- Awareness of all the actions we can take as active citizens to make the world a better place to live
- Value of democracy and respect for the majority’s opinion
- Importance of spreading the message of our good intentions
- Interest in research and designing a campaign
- Interest in developing creativity
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- To become aware that some individuals made great sacrifices to protect our rights
- To know about the lives and work of Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi
- To recognise the efforts that these 3 men had to make to fight for people’s rights (being sent to prison, being killed, etc)
- To value peaceful protests against killing and fighting
- To understand the concept of equality of human beings no matter what the colour of their skin is
- To find out about women that also changed the world
- To learn quotes by inspirational people and design a poster
- To explain the term Democracy
- To describe ways in which I can be an active Citizen
- To categorize the aims of several forms of active citizenship
- To value the importance of voting and elections
- To understand that, although they are not 18 years old, they can be active citizens and take actions that can help make the world a better place to live
- To think that they can have fantastic ideas and they should be heard by the people in power
- To identify the type of actions they can take below and over 18 years of age
- To encourage other people they know to take an active part in society by spreading the message
- To recognise our world as a beautiful place to live with some improvements to be done
- To research some information on different campaigns that are taking place at the moment
- To focus on one problem in the world related to the ones we have been dealing with and design a campaign
- To present the campaign to the rest of the class in a powerpoint presentation
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