Inspiration

After attending Proud teachers on Pride day, an informative British Council Live, I was inspired to create a lesson about one of my favourite artists, Tash Sultana.

Tash Sultana- a superstar

Tash Sultana (they/them) are an incredibly talented singer and musician who can play -wait for it- 20 instruments! If you don’t know them already, do yourself a favour and listen to at least two of their top songs ‘Jungle’ and ‘Notion’.

Why Tash?

I was particularly moved by Tash’s interview in Rolling Stone magazine. They were talking about a dream they had; there was a scorpion, a white and a black jaguar and the way Tash interpreted this dream was the following:

  • The scorpion represents their self-loathing.
  • The white jaguar represents their need for self-compassion.
  • The black jaguar represents their insecurity.

After reading it, I just really wanted to share that story.

I used texts from:

Rolling Stone Magazine.

Vogue.

The lesson

The lesson is for B2+ students. Timing 75-90 mins.

🎯 The main aim of the lesson..

is to raise awareness of the concept of a non-binary/gender fluid identity and to challenge learners’ preconceived notions about gender.

✅ Linguistic aims

To draw learners’ attention to :

  • a range of lexical chunks found in the text
  • pronunciation features, such as stress and connected speech

🗣️ Skills

To enable students to express topic-related thoughts and ideas, with a particular focus on fluency.

I used Chat GPT to generate the definitions for exercise 5. I also asked it to generate discussion questions. I kept some and changed some. It did help save some time though.

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📝 Remember..

I create and share lessons with my students’ needs in mind. You may need to adapt them to better suit the specific needs of your learners.

💬🗨️Feedback..

is always welcome!