Lesson One

School Uniforms

Introduce the concept of school uniforms with these questions:

Should students wear uniforms to school?
Which countries require uniforms at school? Which don't?

Your students can then use these resources to decide for themselves whether uniforms are a good idea or not:

http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa050100a.htm
http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin065.shtml
http://mandatoryschooluniform.org/debates.html

After reading in pairs, your students can have a short debate or write about it for homework.

Lesson Two

Dating

Is cyberspace a good place to find a partner?

Students are to look around this site:

http://personals.yahoo.com/static/tour1.html

... and discuss whether they think they could find a suitable partner.

What kind of people use this service?

...and just for fun they can also check out this novelty site:

http://www.uglypeople.com

Lesson Three

Grammar Practice

Students can practice their weak grammar areas with the grammar quizzes located at:

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/grammar.html
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/grammar.htm
http://www.englishclub.net/grammar/

Lesson Four

E-mail the president

... at http://www.emailthepresident.com of course

This is an activity that will really freak your students out! Don't expect a reply, though.

Lesson Five

The Perfect Pet

Ask your students in turn whether they like cats, dogs or other kinds of pets. Next let them surf the following resources:

http://www.cotonpage.com/
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jean.wright3/index.html
http://www.feline-behavior.com/
http://www3.sympatico.ca/brian.mcgowan/

Afterwards, the students can tell the class which pet they prefer and why.

Lesson Six

Comics

In this session, the students can browse the comic portal site located at:

http://www.ucomics.com/comics

Things to discuss:

1 What language is used in comic strips?
2 How can reading comics improve your English?

Lesson Seven

Rainbow Kids

This lesson is about adopted kids

1 Go to http://www.rainbowkids.com
2 Click on 'personal adoption stories'
3 Read two or three of these stories
4 In class, discuss the difficulties or challenges faced by the adopted kids. p>

Lesson Eight

Stupid jokes

A light reading session. Students can find plenty of 'stupid jokes' at:

http://ewsonline.com/jokes/clean.html

Challenge them to relate some of the jokes to each other. Remember, it will be a challenge for them to get the tone and comic timing correct.