Feminism and social media presentation

Feminism & social media

Group 20 García Serra, Sara Kasch, Franziska López Lorenzo, Ángela

Table of contents

Task plan

Topic justification

Context

Task sequence

References

Task plan

Topic

Contents

• Use of modal verbs (Netiquette).
• Vocabulary related to feminism and social media.

Feminism and social media

Aims

Level

4th Eso

• To learn words related to feminism and social media.
• To express constructive criticism, and coherent opinions and give our arguments on a topic to convince.
• To interpret information from texts and to create written and oral content.

task sequence

3rd lesson

Reading task 2nd part vocabulary activity

Warm-up1st part vocabulary activity

1st lesson

5th lesson

Writing taskGrammar activity

7th lesson

Speaking task

2nd lesson

Reading task

6th lesson

Speaking task

4th lesson

Writing task

Topic justification

Context

32 digital native students. 17 boys and 15 girls

Public secondary school

Library and computer room

Task sequence

Reading

Vocabulary

Warm-up

Grammar

Writing

Vocabulary

Speaking

Warm-up

• Watch the video
• 8 balanced groups of 4 students.
• 2 minutes to agree on an answer to the following questions:
• How would you define feminism?
• Is it universal?
• Can women and men be feminists?
• Brief introduction of the teacher of what is the feminist movement.
• Answer the following questions:
• What is your experience with feminism and social media?
• Do you know any social media accounts where feminism is the main topic or any essential matters or hashtags used for feminism?

first vocabulary activity

• Create a word cloud.
• Look for the definitions of the words.

Reading task

Pre-task

Post-task

Task

Women in media

Pre-reading task

Task

Students first read the text. Then, they re-read the text and circle any words they do not understand. Once they have looked up their meaning, they should answer the questions following the example. Afterwards, the students discuss their answers with the class and correct them.

Questions

This text is an adaptation from the article: Gender roles in Media published in Huffpost by Allison Lantagne

Example answer

WOmen in media

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Post-reading task

Students have to complete, in pairs, the L column of the previous chart and share with the rest of the class what they have learned.

Second vocabulary activity

The second part of the activity is closely related to the first one. It is a game called “Backs to the Board”.

Second vocabulary activity

Equality

Writing task

Pre-task

Post-task

Task

pre-writing task

Match the words with the definitions

Read the adaptation from Lauren Bates' article: What have I learned from five years of Everyday Sexism

Tasks

Individual writing

Group writing

Each student has a number from 1 to 4. Everyone with the number 1, answers question 1, etc. Number 1. What does the author say about her feelings during the project? Number 2. What went well, what was challenging and what did the author learn during the project? Number 3. How is the text structured? Number 4. What problems does the author write about, and what solutions does she propose?

8 groups of 4 students. Write a reflective text of approximately 200 words about one of the following topics: - What is your experience with feminism on social media? - How has gender affected your life? - Thinking back to the last lessons, how has your opinion about feminism and social media changed? Remember to make a brainstorming and to write an introduction, a main part with arguments and a conclusion.

Post-writing task

Students watch each other's contributions and comment below of the eight videos in the forum

Grammar activity

The comments on the homework from the post-writing task introduce the topic of "Netiquette".The teacher reads some comments and the students discuss if they are polite, convincing, well-structured or appropiate. Brief presentation of netiquette.

Pre-task

Themed Kahoot game about Netiquette and the use of modals.

Task

PIN: 03725631

speaking Tasks

Debate

Icebreaker

Unplanned discussion in a game format. Remix from "Pick a Corner" and "Where do you stand?"The teacher will give phrases for agreeing and disagreeing. The class will be divided in half and the students will be in the middle. After the teacher reads the statement, the students decide where they stand. Students will have to try to convince the opposite side to join them. List of statements to debate: - There is already equality. -Abortion should be legal. - Feminism empowers women and disempowers men. - If someone is on social media, I can tell them whatever I want, because it is freedom of speech. - I am anonymous, and I can't be harassed on social media.

Pre-task

Post-task

Task

"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller -

Web links

References

KWL chart strategies

The impact of Soscial media on children-adolescents

Where do negative stereotypes about feminists come from

KWL chart

The misapplication of evolution to discredit feminism

Women in the media

On gender differences no consensus on nature vs. nurture

Bibliography

Media abuse is a sign that the feminist project still far from finished

The Practice of English Language Teaching

The role of social media in the fight for women rights

Harmer, Jeremy (2015), The Practice of English Language Teaching. Pearson Longman

Feminazi - Wikipedia

Feminist - Cambridge Dictionary

How to hold a student debate

How to debate for beginners

PDF

7 Fun Tasks for Classroom Debates

Gender Roles