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?

Time to read...

Go to showbie. Open the ‘peer pressure article’ and read it. Ignore words you do not know, aim for understanding the general idea.

Done with reading? Wait patiently.

Go back to your lines.

Look at the three lines again and consider the statements again. Would you place yourself somewhere else on the lines now? If so, do that now. 

1 It is important for me to fit in.

2 I am immune to peer pressure.

3 Peer pressure is a bad thing.

Discuss again!

What made you change your position on the lines? Or why didn’t you change?

In this lesson you:

* thought a lot

* discussed in English

* heard lots of English

* read an English article

* got smarter in general (about peer pressure)

Thus: got better at English ánd became a better informed person. 

Thank you for your attention!