Two Homes: São Paulo & California
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Pedagogical Guide
Objective & content
A teacher-led slide deck on "Two Homes: São Paulo & California", projected full screen and stepped through with the arrow keys. 8 slides take the class from an opening question to a closing task, passing through a documented quote, the words needed to talk about it, paired discussion, a comparison and a short debate. By the end, students can state and defend a position on the question in English, using the vocabulary the deck supplies.
Pedagogical guide
The deck exists so that a discussion lesson does not depend on the class already having an opinion. Each slide hands them one more thing to think with: a fact, a quote with its source, a word with an example sentence. That order matters. Ask teenagers what they think before they have the words and you get silence or their own language; give them the words first and the same question produces English. The A2 and B1 prompts sit side by side on the discussion slides, so one deck serves a mixed class without preparing two lessons.
Suggested procedure
- (2 min) Open the colour PDF full screen and read the opening question aloud. Take a show of hands, no talking yet.
- (8 min) Step through the quote and the vocabulary slides. Read each word and its example out loud; have the class repeat.
- (10 min) Pairs, on the discussion and comparison slides. Use the A2 line with everyone, the B1 line with pairs who finish early.
- (7 min) The debate slide, whole class. Insist that every claim reuses one word from the vocabulary slide.
- (3 min) The closing task, set as homework or written in the last minutes.
Adaptations
[S] Use the A2 prompt with the whole class and let students answer in one sentence. Leave the vocabulary slide on screen during the discussion so the words stay available.
[A] Give fast pairs the B1 stretch prompt, and ask them to argue the side they do not personally hold on the debate slide.
Materials & prerequisites
A projector or screen, and the colour PDF open full screen in any PDF reader: one page per slide, turned with the arrow keys. Its last page holds the teacher's notes, to read before the lesson rather than project. Nothing to install, and the low-ink PDF prints the deck for a classroom without a screen.