Generation gap or clash

• Engels
• Secundair onderwijs

Welcome to this generation gap / clash class

Assignment 1: Choose a name for your group

Confirm the name of your group

Briefly discuss the typical historical events that colour(ed)

- your parents' adolescence

- your adolescence

Quick feedback on events + Focus on
your parents...

Discuss characteristics to describe their generation. Select the three most apt ones (the ones you recognise, e.g.)

Generation X

What is the word for...
"ondernemend"?

According to the video, less parent supervision led Generation X to be more...

1. cynical
2. disaffected
3. peer-oriented
4. independent

Discuss what sets you as a generation 

apart from your parents.

Select three words from the article and the video that you recognise as defining of your generation.

Generation Z

Read the texts on Gen X and Gen Z on the

website.

Watch the video.

Afterwards, note down at least 5 new words you remember.

Discuss them.

A quiz will follow.

Website

Gen X

Gen Z

latchkey kids

digital natives

disaffected

entrepreneurs

multitaskers

activists

Do you agree that your generation is more
INTROVERTED?

YES

NO

Do you agree that your generation is more
OPEN-MINDED?

YES

NO

Do you agree that your generation is more
SELF-CONSCIOUS?

YES

NO

Snowflakes and Boomers...

Discuss what the two terms entail.

Do you agree? What do you think about this conflict?

Prove the Boomers wrong:
you are NOT Snowflakes.

Word two statements to prove them wrong.

Use these prompts:

- You say that ..., but we ...

- Although you say that ..., we ...

- You say that we ... whereas we are sure / think that we...

- You say that we ... . However, we ...

Prove the Boomers wrong!