know your friends different professions Martin Luther King  
  read a poem learn about other people Links  
  what's your opinion? Listen to the song Ebony & Ivory  

We come in different shapes, sizes, colours, races and religions.
1. Look around you.
 Choose 3 of your friends.
Write how your friends are similar to you and how they are different from you.
 
 
2. Share your writing with a friend.
3. Discuss the differences. What are your conclusions?
Are you and your friends more similar or more different? Explain.


Remember - we are all different but also similar !!!  

 
4. You are going to read a poem called Outcast (a person that has been excluded/rejected from a society).

 Read the following poem Outcast. 

A. Why is the boy alone ? 
He isn't a good friend.
He is short.
He is a bad boy.

B. What do the boys do when they see him?
They ask him to play with them
They tell him to go away
They stop talking
 
C. The boy is crying because
He is not a good student
He forgot to do his homework
No one wants to be his friend

D. Do you think it is right to reject someone just because he is different from you?
Write your opinion in the   

                                       

 Are we really different? Survey


Different People Choose Different Professions
 5. What profession would you like to have?
Write about it here:
 

6. Do a class survey: ask your friends which profession they would like to have.
Display your findings in your English Room. 
Remember - we are all different but also similar !!! 
7. Learn about how people in other countries are different from you click here. 

 

Are we really that different?
Write three facts that you found interesting.
 

8.  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" (Advanced Level)

Martin Luther King delivered his speech
"I Have a Dream" in 1963.

Click here to listen to and read the full speech.   

What was King's dream?

Do you feel his dream has come true? Why? Why not?

Some suggested questions for class discussion:

Do you think we have achieved equality for all people?
Do you think America and the world be a better place if Dr. King had lived?
Can a gun change history?

What does Dr King mean when he says "one's sense of manhood must come from within him?"

What does this say about "the content of one's character?"

Why is it important for each of us to be heard?

For a suggested lesson plan on Martin Luther King -  click here.

9. Watch a video of the song Ebony & Ivory by Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder 
 

 

Fill in the words:

Ebony & Ivory

Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder

Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect
 Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why We? 
We All That People Are The Same Wherever We Go 
There Is Good And In Everyone, 
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give 
Each Other What We Need To Survive Alive. 

Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony 
Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord Why Don't We? 

Ebony, Ivory Living In Perfect Harmony 
Ebony, Ivory, Ooh 

We All Know That People Are The Same We Go 
There Is And Bad In Everyone, 
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give 
Each Other What We Need To Together Alive. 

Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony 
Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord Why Don't ? 

Ebony, Ivory Living In Perfect Harmony (Repeat And Fade)  

Click here to read the lyrics

What is the main message of this song?
Send your opinion to the
 

Name:   
Class:   
School:

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Last updated 19/07/09