Discussing hostility towards migrants in the ESOL classroom

You can pick activities from these slides to suit your ESOL learners. You can also adapt the slides as necessary. The slideset is downloadable.

Activities include: example ‘discussing migrant-hostile activity’ lesson and leaflet (from St Augustine’s in Halifax), match the picture to the description, gap-fills, discussion topics, learning key words and using dictionaries, match the vocabulary to the meaning, arrange the sentences in order, what is hate crime, ‘feelings’ vocabulary, pictures for discussion, and looking after your mental health.

There is also a slide explaining the effects of vicarious trauma on ESOL teachers, how to protect yourself, and links to organisations for more information.

These teacher notes are available for download, or you can click to preview the resource. The teacher notes include suggestions for activities and approaches for use with learners at different levels, from pre-Entry to Entry 1/2. You can build these suggestions into your lesson plans.

This worksheet has practical information for learners at Entry 3 – Level 1/2 about reporting hate crime. There are also definitions of key concepts, vocabulary and 3 exercises with useful topics for class discussion.

This worksheet relates to Slide 5. It is for learners at Entry 3 to Level 1/2. There are several activities to use in the class involving doing research about ‘British Values’.

This worksheet is for use with learners ar pre-Entry or Entry 1. It addresses some of the feelings learners might have surrounding anti-migrant hostility.

This worksheet is for Entry1 to Entry 2 learners. When you print, choose ‘print double-sided’ to avoid having 2 sheets per person. You can also print single-sided and then cut the words and pictures up, for use in pairs or groups.

These photos are in 2 sets. Set 1 is of flags, far right marches and people. Set 2 is of a march against the far right. There are questions to stimulate discussion. When printing, decide whether you need single or double sided.

This worksheet contains a simple scenario, with a suggested role play. There are questions to pose to the learners in their ‘roles’. It can be used from Entry 2 onwards.

The information in this download comes primarily from Aleks Palanac and Charlotte Morriss from the University of Leicester. It is on the topic of vicarious trauma – trauma teachers experience when exposed to the trauma of their learners.

This Resource Pack explains the process of becoming a College (or other organisation) of Sanctuary – and the benefits this brings to learners, staff and the organisation alike.

The keywords list includes important words from the resource, with meanings and example sentences.

You can download for use in the clasroom.