Freedom of Speech vs. Harmful Content
Aims
Goal: debate how to address harmful content online without undermining free expression — conceding, rebutting and hedging your way through the hardest grey areas.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Crossing the line
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: When Words Become Weapons
Read a 471-word text about When Words Become Weapons
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Key Vocabulary
6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Harmful Content Vocabulary in Context
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match the Concept to Its Implication
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Debating Content Regulation
Role-play: You are participating in a panel discussion about how to address harmful content online without undermining free expression. (4 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Take the floor
6 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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