The morning after the Swedish elections and still dreading the results of the American Midterm elections in November, I feel it’s time for some wake-up alarms to go off in our classrooms. WebEnglish.se has several suitable Theme Pages to choose from: No Bullying in Our School (4-9) for (lower) intermediate level students, and Tolerance (7-9), Malala Yousafzai (8-9), and best of all, Racism (9) for intermediate level students.
Furthermore, there is a whole Theme Page about Martin Luther King Jr (4-9), another about Civil Rights (7-9), and yet another about Human Rights (9). If you only have 15 min to spare, you could have your students watch Maysoon Zayid, an Arab-American comedian talking about her 99 problems… cerebral palsy is just one of them.