donating money

Type of activity: Speaking activity in which students decide in groups how to use an amount of money
Level: Intermediate and above

Teacher's notes:

Ask the students to think of all of the social issues that their country has. You might want to prompt them by saying drugs or unemployment etc. Do this as a class activity.
Once the students have discussed this, ask them to get into groups of three.
Tell them that they are going to be given a fictitious amount of money. What they have to do is to decide how to use it to help a social issue that their country has.
Hand out the worksheet below and write the amount of money that you are going to give them on the board for example $10 million.
Tell the groups to decide on one specific social issue that they want to help and tell them to state the reasons that they decided on that issue.
Then ask them to think about how they want the money that they donate to be used.
They should note down all of their ideas on the worksheet so that at the end of the activity they can present their ideas to the whole group.
Allow the students about 20 to 30 minutes to do this. Monitor and correct as the students are speaking. The presentations may take over 30 minutes; this will depend on the amount of groups in the class.
For a follow-up activity ask the students to write, for homework, their ideas in full

Note: You may want to make this a contest i.e. the group with the best ideas will win

WORKSHEET:

Problem that we are going to help: _________________________________________________

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Reasons why we decided on that issue: _____________________________________________

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Ways that the donation will be spent: ______________________________________________

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