Stay safe on social media | TeachingEnglish | British Council

In June 2013, the British Council's Social Media Team Child Protection team worked with CEOP to develop 5 Golden Rules to help parents and carers keep their children safe on social media. As this was a great success and was well appreciated, we would now like to continue this work. The aim of this lesson is to sensitise teenage students to the risks of social media and to raise their awareness of how to stay safe when using it.

Age group: Teenagers

Level: B1 and above (could be adapted for lower levels)

Time: 90 minutes approximately

Outcomes:

Raise awareness of the risks of being on social media
Raise awareness of how to use social media safely
Raise awareness of what to do if they encounter risks online

Main stages of the Lesson:

Conversational warmer
Brainstorming activity
Running race
Reading comprehension
Project work

Materials

Teacher's notes
PowerPoint presentation or IWB flipchart (Promethean)
Stay Safe Poster

Downloads

Stay Safe Teachers notes and lesson material1.81 MB

Stay Safe PowerPoint presentation3.13 MB

Stay Safe poster3.48 MB

Language Level

Pre-intermediate: A2

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