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Social Issues in India

JulieMay November 05, 2019
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SILENT HOW TO VIDEOS

 

In this video we talk about why we love doing arts and crafts with young learners, as well as why silent how to videos are so versatile. We've created an interactive video quiz that you can use with your young learners, which you can find here.

Enjoy!

Anna Csíky
iSLCollective Teacher Trainer

Task description & scene summary

Task description:
Listening for detail (look at the Before you watch section for a task to focus on general understanding). Can be used as a basis for a discussion (to compare with the situation in the students' countries),
Scene summary:
An Indian vlogger presents her views on the social issues in india, their reasons and the role of powerful people and media in it.
Video source: India's Biggest Problem | Whack
Video length: 6 minutes 4 seconds
Video genre: Edu or explainer video (e.g. TedEd, TED conference, home-made explainer)
Lesson type: Deep listening comprehension - Meaning check ("Do you understand what it means?")
Level:
Student types:
Tags:
  • social issues
  • india
  • modern world
  • problems
  • overpopulation
  • poverty
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License
First published: 2019-11-05, 21:50:12 (GMT+1)
About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) Sizewise, on the map, India is ______ _______ ______ than that of China.

Answer the question using your own words

2) Who will not make the social issues their main agenda?

  • politicians
  • social media
  • business people
  • religious leaders
  • celebrities

3) Match the phrases

Match the items:
societyare being made
devisionsis becoming violent against itself
linesare being drawn

4) Programmes on Indian TV like Boliwood films and the "parlimentary circus" ...

  • help to raise people's consciouseness
  • help to educate people
  • concentrate on social issues
  • none of the above

5)

Put the words in order: of the below 22-25% line. people live poverty Indian

6) The society remains uneducated because it is too numerous and it is getting more numerous because ...

Answer the question using your own words

7) Match the parts of the sentence

Match the items:
There are a lot of examplessocial class and rising
but those peopleof people
breaking through theare few

8)

Correct the wrong word: Making precisely 9792 on average a year.

9)

Put the words in order: as layer thin cream as

10)

Correct the wrong word: I can buy your vote for as little as a bag of rice or even a high quality laptop.

11)

Fill the gap: ________________________ people have a tendency to vote for anyone who their religious leaders tell them to vote for.

12)

Put the words in order: focus media real Our on will a at issue hand. not

13) Which story didn't make it to the news

  • a private conversation between a husband and wife
  • an oil company being sold to a private investor

14) They want you to look the other way means ...

Answer the question using your own words

Lesson plan

Pre-tasks

1. What do you think are the biggest issues for India?

2. What do you think is the proportion of the poor, middle class and rich people in India?

3. Why do you think the authorities don’t do anything about it?

4. What is the role of media in it?

5. Watch the video for the first time and check your ideas.

Follow-up tasks

1. Were there any surprising facts for you?

2. How is the situation similar or different in your country?

Vocabulary list

  • unenlightened: not having attitudes that are considered modern and reasonable

About the author

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."

Kieran Donaghy,
Creator of FilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Helloiz
2020-06-23 07:51:39
this is amazing thanks!!