Movember
Lesson plan overview
Enhance your students’ understanding of men’s health and global awareness campaigns with this comprehensive Movember lesson. Designed for B2-level learners, this resource engages students while raising awareness about important men’s health issues.
Worksheet Overview:
Speaking Activities:
Through guided questions, students discuss symbolic health campaigns, cultural attitudes toward health, gender differences in health issues, and their own experiences with awareness initiatives like Movember. Speaking exercises encourage critical thinking and personal reflection.
Reading & Comprehension:
Students read an informative text about Movember, exploring the campaign’s mission to improve men’s physical and mental health. The text highlights the importance of early detection, preventive care, and open dialogue about health challenges, providing a meaningful context for discussion.
Vocabulary & Collocations:
The worksheet includes multiple vocabulary exercises focusing on key terms such as stigma, screening, check-up, treatable, and preventative care. Students match words with definitions, practice collocations, and learn verb-noun combinations essential for discussing health topics confidently in English.
Listening:
Two listening activities accompany a video about Movember – “‘Movember’ puts spotlight on men’s health issues”, requiring students to identify statistics, answer comprehension questions, and reflect on key health messages. These exercises improve listening comprehension while reinforcing factual knowledge about men’s health risks, including prostate and testicular cancer, depression, and suicide prevention. Finally, students engage in a post-listening discussion.
For more speaking practice, you can use the printable conversation cards.
Why Use This Worksheet:
This worksheet is ideal for ESL teachers looking to combine language learning with social awareness. It promotes vocabulary acquisition, critical thinking, speaking fluency, and listening skills —all centered on an engaging, real-world topic. Perfect for lesson plans targeting health, men’s issues, global campaigns, and social responsibility.
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