1. New Internationalist Easier English Ready Upper-Intermediate Lesson
Youth
New Internationalist Easier English Ready Upper-Intermediate Lesson
This lesson will take 1 – 2 hours. 1

2. Why ....
a) is it good to be a youth (15 – 24 year-old) in the world in 2012?
b) is it difficult to be a youth (15 – 24 year-old) in the world in 2012?
You can divide class into 2 groups to list reasons for a or b. Then discuss in pairs: a and b. 2

3. Why ....
a) is it good to be a youth (15 – 24 year-old) in the world in 2012?
b) is it difficult to be a youth (15 – 24 year-old) in the world in 2012?
You can divide class into 2 groups to list reasons for a or b. Then discuss in pairs: a and b. 3

4. True or false? Discuss: There are 1 billion youths in the world.
51% of the youth labour force is unemployed in Spain in 2012.
“NEET” stands for “Neither in Employment, Education or Travel”.
There is 50% youth unemployment in Africa.
44% of 15 – 24 year olds are underweight in India.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, young men are up to 8 x more likely than young women to be HIV positive.
The legal marrying age in Iran is 13 for girls and 15 for boys.
6 million adolescent girls become mothers every year around the world.
The youth literacy rate is 74% in Africa, and 97% in Latin America.
The biggest killer of girls aged 15 – 19 is disease.
You could dictate the true-false sentences first, then learners could look at the slide to check. Then they discuss whether they are true or false. 4

5. Now check the facts:
s/2012/10/01/n456_infograph ic.jpg
KEY: 1 – F(1.2 billion) 2-T 3-F(training) 4-F(60%) 5-T 6-F(opposite: 8X more likely for women) 7-T 8-F(16 million) 9-T 10-F(pregnancy and childbirth) 5

6. What are young people doing to help the world change? And why?
Read these two easier English texts to find out:
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our_ideals_is_no_longer_an_option
You could print out both texts and give one to each half of the class and do this as a jigsaw-reading – or all students could read both texts. 6

7. Follow-up:
Now read the original articles – they will seem much easier:
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lling-out-youth-laurie-penny/