March 21st serves as the date for numerous global commemorations such as World Poetry Day, World Down Syndrome Day, International Day of Forests, International Colour Day and International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
To celebrate the latter during
a session of English at school you can devote a teaching hour in order to raise
learner awareness against racism, especially if you work in an intercultural school
or if you have multicultural classes.
A task which taps on
learner perceptions, imagination and creativity is to provide half the students
with the first part of anti-racist slogans and the other half with the ending.
Learners will have to find their match, with whom they will form a pair, by
asking around, something which will help them practise vocabulary and syntax at
the same time. Once feedback is provided by the teacher, the learners in each
pair will work individually to illustrate their slogan according to their
perception. This means that there will be two illustrations of the same slogan,
something which will bring to light similarities or differences in human
perception and creative expression.
In the photos you can have
a look at some samples from two different schools, the first one being an intercultural
school mainly with Roma learners.
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