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10 tips on talking CULTURE
in the classroom:
● My younger students love the episodes of "Little Human Planet" so I eagerly prepare
video lessons planned around this BBC series. You can find some episodes on
YouTube. Highly recommended!
● Create a presentation on unusual customs. There are lots of websites which provide
this information. One of my favourite ones is:
https://www.royalcaribbean.co.uk/blog/destinations/10-unusual-customs-from-
around-the-world/.
The students can design the
● Create a quiz
quizzes in groups and then swap them around to test their classmates.
● Write an article about other people's traditions. The students need to do some re-
search and choose the most appropriate piece of information to write the report. You
could give them some guidance, such as find out why the festival is celebrated, how
and when it started, what influence it has on the local people, etc.
● Record a "What's on guide". June is packed with festivals so why don't you ask your
pupils to find out about the most exciting events taking place in Oxford, for example,
and once you've checked the script, they can record their audio guides.
● Explore a Culture Museum and then write a review about it. I recently went to the Pitt
Rivers Museum in Oxford and I have to admit that not even for a second did I think
about the differences in culture. On the contrary, what drew my attention was the
striking similarity between artefacts, which come from far flung continents.
Pitt Rivers Museum,
Oxford
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