Peer pressure H4 multiple skills lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

What does ‘peer pressure’ mean?

Please draw three lines.

Place yourself on line 1. 

It is important for me to fit in. 

Place yourself on line 2.

I am immune to peer pressure. 

Place yourself on line 3.

Peer pressure is a bad thing.

Discuss!

Compare your three lines with a neighbour. Explain why you put yourself on that particular place on your line. 

1 It is important for me to fit in.

2 I am immune to peer pressure.

3 Peer pressure is a bad thing.

Discuss these questions in small groups.

Do you belong to a certain group? Which group?

Would you do things you normally wouldn’t because of peer pressure?

Can you come up with an example in which you did something because ‘everybody else did it’?

Do you think wanting to belong to a group is different for kids/teens/adults?

Do you think peer pressure is a good thing or a bad thing? Can you come up with arguments for both?