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    Alis Story Lesson Instructions

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    This ELT lesson plan uses a short film about a young Afghan refugee boy named Ali to teach intermediate and upper-intermediate English learners vocabulary related to refugees. The 90-minute lesson involves vocabulary work, class discussions about refugees, watching the film without and then with sound, retelling Ali's story, and discussing how to help refugee children settle in a new country. For homework, students are asked to write from Ali's perspective about his experiences as a refugee.

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    Alis Story Lesson Instructions

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    This ELT lesson plan uses a short film about a young Afghan refugee boy named Ali to teach intermediate and upper-intermediate English learners vocabulary related to refugees. The 90-minute lesson involves vocabulary work, class discussions about refugees, watching the film without and then with sound, retelling Ali's story, and discussing how to help refugee children settle in a new country. For homework, students are asked to write from Ali's perspective about his experiences as a refugee.

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    This ELT lesson plan uses a short film about a young Afghan refugee boy named Ali to teach intermediate and upper-intermediate English learners vocabulary related to refugees. The 90-minute lesson involves vocabulary work, class discussions about refugees, watching the film without and then with sound, retelling Ali's story, and discussing how to help refugee children settle in a new country. For homework, students are asked to write from Ali's perspective about his experiences as a refugee.

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    This ELT lesson plan uses a short film about a young Afghan refugee boy named Ali to teach intermediate and upper-intermediate English learners vocabulary related to refugees. The 90-minute lesson involves vocabulary work, class discussions about refugees, watching the film without and then with sound, retelling Ali's story, and discussing how to help refugee children settle in a new country. For homework, students are asked to write from Ali's perspective about his experiences as a refugee.

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    Alis Story

    Language level: Intermediate (B1)


    Upper Intermediate (B2)
    Learner type: Teens and adults
    Time: 90 minutes
    Activity: Vocabulary work, speaking,
    watching a short film, and writing
    Topic: Refugees
    Language: Vocabulary related to refugees
    Materials: Short film and vocabulary
    sheet

    Overview

    This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short


    animated film for the BBC and the theme of
    refugees. Students practise vocabulary related to
    refugees, speak about refugees, watch a short
    film, empathise with refugee children and write an
    account of a refugee child fleeing their country.

    Step 1

    Write refugee on the board. Elicit or explain


    that a refugee is someone who has been forced to
    flee his or her country because of persecution,
    war, or violence. Explain that according to the
    United Nations a refugee has a well-founded fear
    of persecution for reasons of race, religion,
    nationality, political opinion or membership in a
    particular social group.

    Step 2

    Give students the refugee worksheet. Ask them to


    connect the ten words related to refugees with the
    ten definitions.

    Step 3

    Check their answers and help them with


    pronunciation.

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    Step 4

    Ask your students to discuss the following


    questions in small groups:

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    Whats the difference between a refugee and an


    immigrant?
    What problems do refugees bring to the
    countries they go to?
    What benefits do refugees bring to the
    countries they go to?
    What rights and benefits should a country give
    to refugees?
    What do you think its like to flee your
    country and end up in a detention centre or
    refugee camp in another country?

    Step 5

    Hold a plenary discussion based on the questions


    from the previous stage.

    Step 6

    Tell your students they are going to watch but not


    hear a short film about an Afghan boy called Ali
    who is a refugee.

    Show the film with the sound off twice.

    Link: https://vimeo.com/44516196

    Step 7

    Pair your students and ask them to retell Alis


    story to each other.


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    Step 8

    Get the whole class to retell Alis story.

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    Step 9

    Tell your students that they are now going to


    watch the film with sound. As they watch and
    listen they should try to understand what Ali
    says. Show the film with the sound on twice.

    Step 10

    Hold a whole class discussion based on what they


    happened to Ali and his family.

    Step 11

    Put your students into small groups. Ask them to


    discuss how they could welcome children like Ali
    and help them settle in their country.

    Step 12

    Hold a whole class discussion on how they could


    welcome refugee children and help them settle in
    their country.

    Homework

    Ask your students to try and imagine how they


    would feel in Alis situation and write an account
    in the first person singular based on their

    experiences.
    Alis Story

    I hope you enjoy the lesson.

    Film English is a labour of love, it takes


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    plans. Keeping it a free, clean, ad-free

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    English, please consider a modest donation
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