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Multiculturalism - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

Multiculturalism - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

David Deubelbeiss

Culture

Find out what young people in the UK think 'culture' is.  Follow the title link and listen to young adults/teenagers from London (a multicultural city) express their opinions on multicultural issues, stereotyping and culture in a video. 

Make yourself up a mind map to summarise the video.

Then, make your own mind map up in English to develop and expand your vocabulary awareness around this topic. Explore what you think 'culture' is. 


Talk to your friends and parents and define culture from their viewpoint. 

Are their definitions the same or different to yours?

MyWordBook

MyWordBook

Click on the title link  above and download the above mobile learning application from the British Council.

An Invaluable Tool in Improving Vocabulary Knowledge

• Learn, practise and quickly review your English vocabulary knowledge daily.
• Use MyWordBook 2 every day to build your vocabulary and improve your English. Add new words as you meet them so you never forget them
• Create your own flashcards and add images, sounds, notes and translations.

English for Medicine - A Doctor's View

English for Medicine - A Doctor's view

Another excellent resource from the Learn English British Council website.

Listen to an interview with a retired doctor, Rajan Mehta, about his life working in the UK.

What do you think a paediatrician is?

Follow the title link

• do the preparation task and match the words to their correct descriptions
• put the questions in the order they were asked in the interview
• listen and locate specific information from an audio file 
• rewrite a postcard that Doctor Mehta sent to India in 1967