This is a guest post by Soleil García Brito. It is a lesson plan on the topic of gender roles. Students complete a First-Certificate-style multiple choice cloze exercise, a listening comprehension based on a clip from Friends and finally, a discussion on the topic. Download the student handout and teacher’s notes below:
Video clip:
Some questions in the discussion have been adapted from: http://www.englishwithjo.com/english-conversation-gender-roles/
Multiple-choice cloze text adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/
It’s a good lesson, thank you for sharing it. It’s fun and can lead to some interesting discussions. I think you should know your students quite well if you want to use the video as it could be interpreted that the fact Ross dressed up as a girl is used as a reason for ridicule. In this day and age, I think that’s a more sensitive subject than it was at the time the episode was made. If you know your students will be ok with it, then it can be brilliant, but it’s a good idea to be sure.