The Role of Government in Personal Choices
Aims
Goal: debate where state authority should end and personal freedom begin — conceding the costs of bad choices, pushing back on slippery slopes, and hedging the genuinely hard cases.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: The state versus you
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: The Nanny State Debate
Read a 482-word text about The Nanny State Debate
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary
6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match the Policy to the Philosophy
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Build Government and Freedom Arguments
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Defending Your Position
Role-play: You are debating a proposed new government policy that would impose significant taxes on unhealthy food to fund public healthcare. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Take the floor
6 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
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