in this lesson we had to anotate a picture of vicky pollard and we had to use stereotypes to say what vicky looked like in the picture

1. Lesson 3
Media Stereotypes
Key Words
 Representation
 Stereotype
L/Os:
By the end of the lesson…
You Must – understand and explain the concept Stereotype
(Starter and Main Task)
You Should – Explore the difference between a TV media
stereotype and reality (Extension 1)
Amazing If – Explore a media stereotype from a different media
area (extension 2)
STARTER:
 Write down the meaning of the word stereotype in your own words:
The meaning of stereotype is an opinion on something or someone just by the way it
looks, walks, talks etc.
MAIN TASK 1: Describe each characteristic to show the difference
between this media stereotype and a real teenager.

2. You
(You can insert an
image of yourself if
possible)
Speech: Uses lots of slang
and offensive words. Not
very articulate and often
does not make sense.
Anything else:
Appearance: She
looks like she don’t
care that she is rude
and not nice to talk
to.
Body language: Her body
language shows that she
doesn’t care and that she
doesn’t look interested in
anything or anyone.
Appearance:
Anything else:
Body language:
when I’m in a bad
mood I can
antisocial and
quiet and angry.
Speech: I don’t talk
differently to how I talk in
school to how I talk to my
friends but I talk differently
when I’m at home because
I’m with my parents.

3. Extension 1 – Stereotypes and reality:
1. Which negative characteristics of teenagers have been exaggerated in
Vicky Pollard?
That teenagers are aggressive and don’t care about other people’s
feelings and that teenagers always get themselves into sticky situations and
get involved with the wrong crowd.
2. Explain in your own words how you are different to a ‘stereotypical’
teenager like Vicky Pollard?
I’m different to Vicky pollard because I’m not that aggressive like she is and
my attitude is not as bad as hers is really bad.
Extension 2 – Stereotypes across different media
areas
(Promotional picture of 50
cent)
- Which negative characteristics of young black males have been
exaggerated in this stereotypical image?
Negative characteristics are that they think they are always carrying
weapons and that they are aggressive and in gangs and always go
down the bad path and do bad stuff.
How does this stereotype different from reality?
It’s different from reality because it’s not just one race that can be like
that it can be all different races all different colours

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PLENARY:
Progress Bar:
- Circle your effort level for today’s lesson.
1 2 3 4 5
WWW: I understood all the
questions and I could answer
them easily and I found the
lesson interesting.
EBI: I used more range of
words.
Progress Bar:
The effort level your teacher has marked you for today’s lesson.
1 2 3 4 5