Global Justice and Responsibility

C1 · Advanced57 minConversation StartersLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: debate what wealthy nations owe the rest of the world — conceding the failures of aid, pushing back on borders as moral limits, and hedging where every answer is partial.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Who owes what?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Who Owes What to Whom?

    Read a 531-word text about Who Owes What to Whom?

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Global Justice Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the Argument to the Perspective

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: A Philosophical Debate

    Role-play: You are participating in a university debate on global justice. The motion is: 'Wealthy nations have a moral obligation to redistribute a significant portion of their wealth to developing countries.' (4 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Take the floor

    6 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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cosmopolitanreparationsredistributionsovereigntyexploitationsystemic

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