OPENCities – Lesson 3: Cities and migration
Topic: Demographic change
Aims:
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To develop students’ communication skills
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To develop students’ vocabulary around the topic of demographic change
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To help students understand some of the issues regarding how these changes
are motivated by improving standards of
living in different cities
Level:
Intermediate +
Introduction:
This lesson plan explores some of the issues associated with cultural and
environmental adjustments and looks at some of ways in which these have impacted
on the lives of migrants in different cities and countries. This is a strong underlying
theme of the OPENCities project www.opencities.eu
Procedure
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To get students thinking about demographic changes in their country over the last
century, write 1900 and then write 20_ _ [depending on the year you are in]
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Ask students to discuss how their hometown has changed in this period of time.
Ask students to think about the population of their hometown,
the kinds of work
people do there and the kinds of housing and in what ways it has improved.
Tech Tip:
As an alternative to this you get your students to name ten European
countries. Then ask them to try put them in order of population size. Once they
have done this send them to Factbook at:
http://factbook.bodukai.com
to check
their answers.
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