School Shootings

School Shootings

a Talking Points lesson for English reading, speaking, vocabulary and writing

This is part of the Talking Points 3 lesson series for Intermediate to Advanced students.

This may not be suitable for younger students!

School shootings happen with alarming regularity.

It causes a panic every time it happens. Parents worry about sending their children to school and the schools have to reconsider their security systems.

This lesson deals with the phenomenon of school shootings.

It also brings into question the idea of guns and gun ownership.

This topic may be very close to the hearts of your students so it could be a very worthwhile lesson in your English class.

Your students will find this topic highly engaging and all the exercises will be great fun for them. It should definitely create much debate and talking time in your English or ESL class.

The lesson comes complete with:

• Reading Exercise
• Reading Comprehension Questions
• Essential Vocabulary
• Discussion Questions
• Brainstorming Exercise: Try to think of all the possible solutions to school shootings
• Small Group Exercise: a continuation of the above exercise
• Group Exercise: In The Event of a School Shooting
• Debate: should we ban guns?
• Writing Exercise

Start the class with the three opening questions and then do the reading.

Follow that with the reading comprehension questions.

Then you can go through all the vocabulary – or set it as homework for the students to do later.

Then there is a big list of questions that are designed to get your students talking.

After that, you can do all the other exercises in whatever order you wish.

It comes in easy to use PDF format, ideal for printing for your needs. Use it again and again for your English/ESL classes.

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