Dark tourism

Dark tourism involves travelling to sites associated with death and tragedy. While teaching the topic of travelling and tourism, the following lesson plan offers a different and more interesting (among teenagers) choice. You can still teach basic vocabulary based on the topic but at the same time make the lesson more meaningful to students.
Before doing the following lesson, you can use images  to elicit the names of famous dark tourism destinations. Students love the use of art in education.







 


MORE RESOURCES

 VOCABULARY ON TRAVELLING(VIDEO LESSON)
SPECIAL INTEREST TOURISM IDEAS
TRAVEL-TOURISM VOCABULARY
LEARN ESL WITH DREW MATERIAL
JANIS'S ESL HOME PAGE MATERIAL

Couple arrested after child found in car boot in France

 One of the most recent shocking stories has taken place in France.

 The issue of child abuse and children's rights is an important topic to tackle in the classsroom.
Here are two  worksheets on the topic. The first one is a reading comprehension worksheet and the other is based on a listening activity.





 The video, the listening activity is based on, is given below

 





RESOURCES

Declaration of  the rights of a child
Know your rights interactive game
Lesson plans on children and their rights.
Child labor resources
Parts of a car

Mexican storms

You can use this worksheet alone or as a supplement to the worksheet "Mexico floods".
It is based on a bbc video about the two storms that hit Mexico. 



 



RESOURCES

MICHELLEHENRY NATURAL DISASTERS 
BBC NATURAL DISASTER MATERIAL  
VIDEOS ON NATURAL DISASTERS PLUS ACTIVITIES 
QUESTIONS ON THE TOPIC OF NATURAL DISASTERS 
NATURAL DISASTERS LESSON PLAN