B1. Animal Rights and Wrongs

When is right and when is a wrong to kill and eat an animal? Is it based on the animal’s intelligence, how close it is to being human, or is it just culturally subjective? This free reading lesson includes exercises and a discussion topic that challenges students’ ideas about the Read more…

B2. How Honest Are We Really?

As part of a two-year research experiment, researchers handed in more than 17,000 ‘lost’ wallets that they said they had found in public buildings in 355 cities in 40 countries around the world to find out how honest people were. The researchers, along with 279 academic economists, assumed that putting Read more…

B2. Uncomfortable

This discussion based English lesson is based on two award winning short films that share the same themes of stereotyping and prejudice. Strangers is an dark and atmospheric short film set on a late night train whereas Traction is a light hearted comedy based on the contemporary protocols of modern dating. Both films generate great discussion topics that challenge assumptions about people.