These general suggestions for activities include possibilities for extending the use your class make of this theme. You may find particular activities appropriate for specific pages; select the most suitable activity for your pupils.

• What do you think about this? Talk to each other and then tell your teacher what you think.
• Write down what you think about this question and show what you have written to your teacher.
• Talk about both sides of this question. Work out all the arguments ‘for’ and the arguments ‘against’ and then discuss them with your teacher.
• Talk about both sides of this question. Work out all the arguments ‘for’ and the arguments ‘against’ and then write them down to show to your teacher.
• Write down three main points from this piece of writing;
• Summarise the points in favour of …. from this article;
• Write a shorter and simpler version of this piece of writing for younger children to understand;
• Find out the meanings of the following words… ; or, pick five words which you are not sure about and look them up in a dictionary;
• Write three points in favour and three against … which are included here;
• Write a one hundred word report on what you have just read. Include some short extracts from it and comment on why you have included them;
• Find the answers to these three / four / five questions;
• How would the events described here make you feel if you had been there at the time?;
• Write a letter to a friend/newspaper/… explaining what you understand from this article;
• Produce an advertising handbill to publicise ….. ;
• Write a short informative radio news script to pass on this information;
• Print out the passage about …. then use a highlighter pen to show every reference to … (use two different coloured highlighter pens for highlighting different aspects);
• This tells us that …. Can you find any other evidence to support this?