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Social Media - Hurtful or Harmless?
We all scroll, like and share, but is social media helping us or hurting us?
English vocabulary and collocations.
Description
Social Media - Is is hurtfull or harmless.
Warm up : Show three pictures of people on social media. (5 min)
Ask students to describe the feelings that is portrayed in the pictures.
1 Funny
2 Sad
3 Shocked.
Ask eliciting questions on what could possibly have caused the feelings.
Presentation (using a Power Point presentation) (10 min)
What is a collocation?
Give examples - when two or more words are always used together.
Use it in a sentence.
Practice (10 min)
1 Scramble game - students have to match the word to the meaning
2 Expressing opinions about social media - students have to make sentences starting with the following phrases:
- I tend to think that...
- From my point of view...
- One of the downsides is...
- On the plus side
3 Discussion - Fluency
Pick a number
Warm up : Show three pictures of people on social media. (5 min)
Ask students to describe the feelings that is portrayed in the pictures.
1 Funny
2 Sad
3 Shocked.
Ask eliciting questions on what could possibly have caused the feelings.
Presentation (using a Power Point presentation) (10 min)
What is a collocation?
Give examples - when two or more words are always used together.
- Digital detox
- Echo chamber
- Viral content
- FOMO
- Going viral
Use it in a sentence.
Practice (10 min)
1 Scramble game - students have to match the word to the meaning
2 Expressing opinions about social media - students have to make sentences starting with the following phrases:
- I tend to think that...
- From my point of view...
- One of the downsides is...
- On the plus side
3 Discussion - Fluency
Pick a number
Number one
Social media makes people less social
Number two
It is more harmful to teenagers than adults
Number three
It’s impossible to live without it today
Discuss the topic for two minutes using the collocations and opinion phrases.
Production(3 to 5 min)
We all scroll like and share, but is social media helpful or harmless
Students to vote using the following options
Yes
No
Depends.
Conclusion.
Discuss the topic for two minutes using the collocations and opinion phrases.
Production(3 to 5 min)
We all scroll like and share, but is social media helpful or harmless
Students to vote using the following options
Yes
No
Depends.
Conclusion.
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