Prison Life and Rehabilitation
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Prison Life and Rehabilitation

This ESL lesson plan focuses on prison life and rehabilitation targets listening and speaking skills in a group setting. The lesson includes matching quotes, a video clip from the show "Rectify," and discussion questions on rehabilitation and life after prison. Students will practice identifying main ideas, understanding details, and engaging in meaningful conversations. The structure promotes active participation and reflection on key topics.

Skills

  • Can understand documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays and the majority of films in the standard form of the language or a familiar variety.
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Warm-up: Life in prison

When you are alone with yourself all the time, with no one but yourself, you begin to go deeper and deeper into yourself until you lose yourself. It's a perverse contradiction. It's like your ego begins to disintegrate until you have no ego. Not in the sense that you become humble or gain some kind of perspective, but that you literally lose your sense of self. And I'm not sure anyone, unless they have gone through it, can truly understand how profound that loss is. It's like the psychic glue that binds your whole notion of existence is gone. You become unglued. I think, therefore I am. I think too much, therefore I am not. I am not, therefore I am nothing. I am nothing, therefore I am dead. And if I am dead, then why am I still so goddamn lonely? I don't know.
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Have you seen any movies or TV series showing life in or after prison?
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What do you think is the hardest thing about being in jail?
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Famous quotes: Match the halves

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What's the best summary?

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Try to catch the details.

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Glossary

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Talk about life after prison.

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