THE ENGLISH CLUB HANDBOOK For English Club Member s americanenglish.state.gov THE ENGLISH CLUB MEMBER HANDBOOK ii THE ENGLISH CLUB MEMBER HANDBOOK © 2018 by The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, except where noted. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Author: Kathleen F. Malu, Ph.D., with Bryce Smedley All images CC0. Please see https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ for details. This publication is available free of charge online at: americanenglish.state.gov Office of English Language Programs Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs United States Department of State Washington, D.C. americanenglish.state.gov iii TABLE OF CONTENTS The English Club Member Handbook...................................................................................1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................1 What is an English Club? ........................................................................................................3 Members and leaders ...............................................................................................................5 Small group roles .....................................................................................................................6 Debate sequence and timing ....................................................................................................7 Debates and conversations: Useful vocabulary and phrases .....................................................9 Talking about sensitive topics: Trauma and mental health .....................................................11 Active listening ......................................................................................................................13 Rules for active listening .......................................................................................................14 Rules for brainstorming .........................................................................................................14 Practice brainstorming ...........................................................................................................15 Questions after brainstorming ................................................................................................15 Vision board ...........................................................................................................................15 English Club activities ...........................................................................................................17 Children’s Rights ....................................................................................................................19 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................19 A skit .....................................................................................................................................20 An interview .........................................................................................................................24 Do children have rights? ........................................................................................................27 Convention on the Rights of the Child ...............................................................................28 Debate topics .........................................................................................................................30 Vision board ...........................................................................................................................31 Group activities ..................................................................................................................31 Individual reflection ...........................................................................................................31 Leadership ...............................................................................................................................33 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................33 A skit .....................................................................................................................................34 An interview .........................................................................................................................37 americanenglish.state.gov iv Characteristics of good leaders ..............................................................................................40 Conversation activity .........................................................................................................42 Characteristics of good followers ...........................................................................................43 Leader or follower? A skit ......................................................................................................45 Truth & reconciliation: Awarding amnesty .............................................................................47 Conversation activity ..........................................................................................................47 Debate topics ........................................................................................................................49 Vision board ...........................................................................................................................50 Group activities ..................................................................................................................50 Individual reflection ...........................................................................................................50 Free Speech ............................................................................................................................51 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................52 A skit .....................................................................................................................................53 Conversation activity ..........................................................................................................56 An interview .........................................................................................................................56 Debate topics ........................................................................................................................60 Vision board ...........................................................................................................................61 Group activities ..................................................................................................................61 Individual reflection ...........................................................................................................61 Democracy ..............................................................................................................................63 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................63 A skit .....................................................................................................................................64 An interview ..........................................................................................................................67 Quotations about democracy ..................................................................................................69 What is democracy? Two stories ............................................................................................72 Story 1: Protests in Hong Kong ..........................................................................................72 Story 2: Stealing democracy or buying it? ..........................................................................73 What is democracy? ...............................................................................................................74 Free speech? ......................................................................................................................74 Debate topics ........................................................................................................................75 americanenglish.state.gov v Vision board ...........................................................................................................................76 Group activities ..................................................................................................................76 Individual reflection ...........................................................................................................76 Love and Marriage .................................................................................................................77 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................77 A skit .....................................................................................................................................78 Conversation activity ..........................................................................................................80