Immigration

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• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4-6

Immigration

What is your idea?

Part 1

In the following slides, choose the emoji that better describes your feeling about the given statement.

Everybody should be able to live where they choose. Freedom of movement is a civil right.

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People should stay and live in the country where they are born.

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Immigration makes countries more interesting and helps people become more tolerant.

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Immigration vs. emigration

Why do people decide to emigrate to other countries?

Thinking about reasons for emigration

There are many reasons why people choose to emigrate. Have a look at this list of possible reasons and

discuss them with your group. Then try to put them into order from the most important to the least

important. You can add more reasons of your own.

• To escape poverty

• To escape war

• To have better job opportunities

• To have a better education for your children

• To escape the political system

• To be with someone you love

• To escape natural disasters

• To learn a foreign language

• To have a higher quality of life

• To live in a country with a better climate

When you have finished, compare your list with the other groups’ lists.

Emigration emergency

Imagine that you arrive home from school and your parents tell you that your family are going to emigrate to the UK. You are going to leave your country next week. Complete the sentences in the following slides.

In my suitcase I will put…..

Things I will miss about my country…

How you are feeling….

Anything you are looking forward to….

What is your idea?

Part 2

In the following slides, rate your ideas on a scale of 1 to 5 about the given statements.

1 = Strongly disagree 

2 = Disagree

3 = Neutral

4 = Agree

5= Strongly agree

In an ideal world nobody would need to emigrate.

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Immigration is one of the biggest problems of our time.

15

People cannot be ‘illegal’.

15

There should be more help available to immigrants to adapt to their new country.

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This lesson was created using the material from the following webpage: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/upper-intermediate-b2/immigration

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