This lesson plan introduces the topic of violence to 11th grade students. It has three main activities: 1) Students will classify pictures as depicting violent or non-violent situations and describe the types of violence shown. 2) Students will read texts about violence and answer comprehension questions. 3) Students will summarize the texts and share their answers, discussing their results as a class. The goal is for students to better understand and reflect on the topic of violence.

1. “Human Values” Lesson plan 13 – 11th October 2012 Barros Blancos nº 2 – Yubert Aloy
and Valeria Zeballos in cooperative work.
Aims:
• To introduce a new topic related to Human Values (Chosen by sts - Violence).
• To work on reading and speaking skills.
• To approximate students to a more complex level of written English.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
• Classify different situations of violence and describe them.
• Make a reflection on the topic. (Violence)
• Improve their reading skills.
Anticipated problems: Some of the concepts will be hard to understand because we will use
material with more natural language and abstract expressions.
Solutions: Teacher will give students some key words and will use some visual aids to help with
the transition.
Warm Up: 2 min: The teacher will write on the board some concepts to help students guessing
what follows next. (They have been working on diversity, a topic that sts have chosen related to
Human values’ unit).
Note: the other two topics are “Violence” and “Equality”, we will start with “Violence”.
Activity 1 Guessing/Speculating– 10 mins: Students will be divided in three groups (with the
criteria, sport, couple and child). The teacher will show students different pictures that they´ll
have to stick on the board by taking turns and classifying them, according to violent or non-
violent situations.
The teacher will ask them what kind of situation they can see in each picture and in the case of
the ones classified as violent, they´ll have to explain what kind of violence is, or how could they
call that type of violence.
Activity 2 Reading Comprehension – 15min : The teacher will give each of the three groups a
text with different testimonies and stories related to violence. Sts will have to read the texts and
answer the questions:
a)- Is this a situation of violence? Why?
b)- Why do you think this happens?
c) – What would you suggest to avoid this situation?
Note: All the groups will have a copy of the three texts.
Activity 3 Exchange of information -15 min : After the students finish with the questions, they
´ll go to the front and write on the board a brief summary of the story and their answers. Then,
they will make comments on their results.
Note. Some groups can finish activity 3 before others, so they´ll have something else to do while
the others are working. In this way, all the groups will have the information of the others.

2. Round up 3mins: The teacher will ask sts to mention three things that they found shocking from
the stories.