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Discussing social media

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Jun 06, 2024Feb 28, 2025

LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

discuss various social media focusing on TikTok and its aspects,
explore vocabulary related to the topic (people, activities, content),
revise and practise uses of Present Continuous,
reflect on the influence of beauty filters on teenagers’ lives,
read an article about social media outage,
talk about hypothetical situations of social media not existing.

In this lesson set, students not only discuss different aspects of social media but revise and practise useful grammar and vocabulary

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Lesson 1 Start with teaching students basic social media vocabulary

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TikTok and other social media: fun or threat?

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Before class, students check information about various social media sites and learn vocabulary to talk about people, activities and content on social media (e.g. scroll, troll, tweet). In class, they share personal experiences, watch a video and discuss TikTok.

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Lesson 2 Continue talking about negative influences of social media

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How beauty filters are changing the way we want to look

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Students watch and discuss a video about body dysmorphia and beauty filters. They also revise and practise the different uses of Present Continuous. Encourage students to use the target vocabulary from Lesson 1 in discussions in ex. 1 (slide 10) and ex. 4 (slide 10).

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Lesson 3 Wrap it up and ask students to read an article

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Our lives rely on social media more than we think

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Students read about a social media outage at home. In class, they revise useful vocabulary (e.g. concern, alert, estimate) and discuss possible consequences of all social media ceasing to exist. Encourage students to use Present Continuous in the last question in ex. 1 (slide 4).

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