Table 1 Weekly themes and communication skills
Themes | Communication skills/focus |
|---|---|
Skin lightening | Expressing causation: |
- Because of/Due to X, Y happens. | |
- X{affects/influences/causes/produces/results in} Y. | |
Real life problems | Stating solutions to problems: |
- In order to solve this/these problem(s), one answer is …; a second/third/final answer is… | |
- In order to overcome this/these problem(s), one solution is…; a thing we can do is… | |
New drugs affecting our community | Debating for position taken: |
- Students take a side and argue whether a new drug should be “legalized” or “banned.” | |
Gender Equality | Debating with supporting evidence/examples: |
- Students debate whether women are finally truly equal to men and use ideas/examples given to create an argument for a position taken. |