Lesson Plan about Social Media for Level 1 Functional Skills English students. DM me for a lesson plan and handouts!

1. Social Media & You
What is Social Media, what do we use it for, the
benefits and dangers.
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4. Here are some answers
about Ivy.
What are the questions?

5. Ivy Text

6. Reading:
1. Decide what information you
need according to the topic.
2. Read quickly and find the
relevant answer to your
questions.
3. Decide what information to
include in your report.
Today’s Menu: Write a report about social media,
why is it used, the benefits and dangers and staying
safe online
Writing:
1. Produce an information hashtag
for your report.
2. Make concise notes for each
point.
3. Plan your writing.
4. Write a paragraph using PEE.

7. Social Media
Dangers

8. You are going to read a poster about how children
can stay safe online. What do you think are the
‘5 golden rules?’

10. Presentation Features Language
Features
Language features are
parts of the text which
attract our attention and
help us understand the text.
What language features
were used in the poster?
Presentation features help
us to find information
quickly and easily. What
presentation features were
used in the poster?

12. Sub-titles
Images
Text boxes
Bold font
Underlining
Instructions
Statistics
Numbers/figures
Short sentences

13. Produce an online safety leaflet for teens.
What sort of information could you include?
Consider:
Uses of Social Media,
Benefits of having online presence,
Dangers such as ID theft, trolling and bullying,
Your ‘online brand.’
What do people think of you based on your online presence?

14. Social Media
Staying safe

15. Research - which links work best?
Open this link and look at the search results. What do you think each web page is
about? How do you know this?
Which links would be most useful for your research topic?

16. Adding Information
Choose a point from your hashtag.
Write down three main ideas for the point.
Now draft a paragraph by writing the point, then explain what you mean, then give
an example.
Add your writing to this padlet.

17. In your own words, write a
post to this thread. How do
you think children can stay
safe on the internet? You
could include ideas such as:
● Asking your child to
show the sites they use,
● Showing your child how
to set profile settings to
private,
● How to post photos and
videos,
● Trolling and bullying
behaviour.
(75 words)

18. Feedback
Look back at today’s menu.
Think about: how well can you do each reading and writing skill?
Which skills do you need to work on?
Write them the next slide.

19. References
One Tab
One tab - SM dangers

20. Five Minute
Discussion
● What is happening in the
picture?
● How do you think social
media was used for this
situation?
BBC Look East News

21. Ten Minute Free
Writing
● What is social media?
● How do you use it in
daily life?
● Type your answer into
Classroom.