Cultural diversity. Teacher Lesson Plan. Similarities and differences between the UK and your country overseas. Age Group: Any. Time: 60 minutes.

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1 Teacher Lesson Plan Cultural diversity Topic Similarities and differences between the UK and your country overseas. Age Group: Any Aim: To think about similarities and differences between the UK and other cultures. Time: 60 minutes Success Criteria: ALL Will be able to reflect on what they like, and how they are different to their friends. MOST Will be able to think about the differences and similarities between them and people in the UK. SOME Will be able to make insightful contributions about how life in their community compares to the UK. Objectives: To think about individual identity and how we are both similar and different to our friends. To explore the differences and similarities between the UK and your overseas community by listing characteristics on a Venn Diagram. Making a poster to summarise these differences and similarities. Resources: Board or wall space Paper Pens/pencils Activities: Starter activity Main teaching Development (group or individuals) Plenary Timing: 35 minutes 5 minutes Homework/additional ideas: Further activities could include: Listen to music: first UK then from your community country. You could then play other types of music from other parts of the world. Introduce a type of dance (Ceilidh?) from the UK, and then one from your overseas community. Explain/Celebrate a traditional UK festival and/or festival from your country. Draw a picture that you feel depicts your local or national identity/ culture. Do a project with your class taking a series of photos that depicts their daily routine. Then get someone from home in the UK to do the same and swap pictures. This video depicting the lives of one kid in England and one in Bangladesh serves to highlight such similarities and differences...

2 2 starter activity Sit the students in a large circle and ask a volunteer to stand in the middle of the circle to get the game started. The following rules are explained. The student standing in the middle asks classmates a question such as: Does anyone like bananas? Does anyone have more than three siblings? can anyone speak more than one language? was anyone born in another country? Any students answering yes must stand up and scramble to find a seat in another opening of the circle. The person who asked the question must also grab a seat, which leaves one person standing in the centre. The student left standing poses another question to classmates and the cycle continues. If the group are a suitably high level and you want to emphasize similarities and differences you can have pre-prepared questions to ask the group. eg I am a girl. I am from Ask them afterwards if they can guess the themes of your questions.

3 3 Main Teaching Part One 15 minutes Draw a Venn diagram on the board and using this example provided below to explain what a Venn diagram is. Me born in England we live in china you born in china Now have the group work in pairs and do a Venn diagram of the two of them. If they are finding the concept difficult, you could limit the questions to I like. eg I like football, you like dancing, we like music. Get pairs to feedback about them and their partner. Are there any themes? (eg boys like football/half the group speak a local dialect)

4 4 Main Teaching Part Two 20 minutes Now make another Venn diagram on the board labelling: 1) The UK, 2) Their country, and 3) The UK and their country. Use the example provided below to explain. UK eat a lot of potatoes UK & China eat a lot of meat CHINA eat a lot of rice Work with the group to find out what similarities and differences you have, you could get each person to ask you one question about the UK. You may find that your group find it easier to point out differences, so make a concerted effort to point out similarities. If the participants are older and more suitable, you can include more serious issues. Examples of similarities could be: We all go to school We all have a family of some sort We all like days off

5 5 development (Group or Individuals) Now create a big Venn Diagram on the floor of your room (or outside). Read out answers from the Venn diagram on the board (You could also have participants call out answers). Have everyone initially stand outside the Venn Diagram and then run to the right part of the Venn Diagram according to what piece of information you call out. If appropriate you could have some people pretend to be British to mix up the group. plenary 5 minutes Get one big poster and split it into two. On one side have half the participants write a similarity between their country and the UK. On the other side get the other half to write a difference between the UK and their country.