How can we teach difficult or taboo subjects?
British Council - Teaching English
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How Do You Prepare Students to Talk About Controversial Issues in the Classroom?
Most course books don't include controversial issues or pastnip topics whatever you want to call them. So most teachers probably will have to look elsewhere to find ideas or potentially create their own materials. There are different ways of integrating this kind of content into your classes, it could just be that you start by adding in some more thought provoking questions to a list of discussion questions. It could be that you just go with the flow when students bring up the topic themselves in the class and you don't shut down the conversation. But also if you're looking actually to find materials, I'm the coordinator, the iotep or global issues that are going to be a little bit more interesting. Just
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