Here are three tips for your homework: 1. Focus on clearly identifying the key social issues discussed in the textbook pages and learner's journal pages. 2. Summarize the key details concisely without including unnecessary information. 3. Make sure your summaries are general enough to apply to any situation of a given social issue, not just the specific examples discussed in the texts. Include relevant details about who is affected, where and when issues occur, and/or what the main problems are.

1. S4
Social issues
Exploring
Social Issues

2. The story of Wang Yue
Wang Yue, the two-year-old girl run over by two vehicles and then ignored
by 18 passersby near Guangshou last week, is fighting to cling to life.
“These 18 passers-by are afraid of getting themselves into trouble,” said
a Weibo posting under the name She De.

3. Social Issues
• Are matters which
directly or indirectly
affect a person or many
members of a society.
• Are often highlighted in
our media.
• Are controversial.
• Cause a lot of heated
debate.

4. Activity 1 Your expectations of this course
1. What kind of topics will we study?
2. Will we be limited to writing or will we do oral
presentation as well?
3. Will the work involve any research?
4. Will we learn how to identify cause and effect?
5. Are we expected to come up with solutions to social
issues?
6. How important is group work in this Elective?
7. Will our own experience(s) be useful in our work in
this Elective?
You can include photos , drawings and use colours to
illustrate your posters.

5. What kinds of issues are highlighted in the pictures?

6. Activity 2 Categorise social issues
• Economy • Medicine
• Education • Personal
• Environment • Technology
• Health • The Law

7. Activity 2 Categorise social issues
• In groups look at the list • Terrorism
of social issues and • Obesity
• Poverty
brainstorm your ideas
• Spread of diseases
so that you come up • Global warming
with four or five other • Welfare of the elderly
social issues to add to • ?
the list. • ?
• ?
• ?

8. Identify the social issues discussed in
different texts.
• Textbook P.4-7
• Skimming means reading quickly to find the main
ideas.
• When you skim a text, read the title, and subheadings
and the first sentence of each paragraph.
• You can use these social issues:
• Child neglect
• Drug abuse
• Internet piracy
• Pollution
• Poverty
• Teenage binge drinking
• Teenage pregnancy

9. Identifying social issues
Social issues
Definition Causes Effects Solutions
What is Why is it How are people How can it be
happening? happening? affected? overcome?
When is it
happening?
Where is it
happening?
Who is
affected?

10. Activity 3 Identifying • Write down words that you see
social issues or that you think of while you
Fill in the blank with watch the following video with
your thoughts: images about poverty in the
Poverty is box below.
_______________________________
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_______________________________ Who
Where
What
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d When
EyE5y0-zY&feature=related (6:53)

11. Social issue: Poverty
What is happening?
People are starving to Where is it happening?
death.
In third-world countries; in
Definition countries at war; on the streets
of first-world countries
In the past and also today Refugees; persecuted groups; the
When is it happening? homeless
Who is affected?
Definition:
Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean
and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing
and shelter because of the inability to afford them.

12. Homework
Tips:
• Clarity
1. Textbook P.5-10 • Concision
2. Learner’s Journal P. 1-2 • True for all cases
• Contains information
about the following:
who, where, when,
and/or what