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This website provides extensive resources on the topic of a living wage. There is a wealth of information contained on the site, which provides comprehensive coverage of many issues surrounding the idea of a living wage and its impact on workers, communities, and businesses.One particularly interesting article discusses the impact of Walmart, not only on workers, but also on shoppers. I think the information on this site can be used in the discussion of how to balance the issue of how big retailers can contribute to communities by providing jobs and affordable goods while at the same time providing a living wage as opposed to simply low paying jobs that provide little or no benefits.

Jerry, this topic is a HOT one right now with the economy not only producing few jobs, but with people working 40 hours a week and being nowhere near meeting their financial obligations. Nice choice! M.

I've always been a supporter of Walmart - one of the few I think! If it wasn't for Walmart I'm not sure I'd be able to get by. The interesting thing though is that after reading one of the articles at the UC Berkeley labor center website, I realized that Walmart could pay more to its workers if they chose to and the impact on their profits, as well as the price increases passed along to consumers, would be minimal. The article discusses what would happen if Walmart was required to pay its workers $12 an hour and concluded even if Wamart were to pass on the entire wage increase to consumers, the increased price cost to the average shopper would only be about $12.49 a year. If Walmart offered a minimum wage of $12 an hour I can't help but believe there would be less resistance to them opening new stores in hard hit economic communities.

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Attractive site to discuss in EFL - ESP classes (Business - Global Awareness - Project Citizen - Charity)

Beautiful site to study Human rights. It offersvideos to watxh and discuss, games, cartoon and a lot more funny and reflective excersises. Videos are really simple and appropiate for discussion.

These are ready-made lesson plans that may have to be adapted to a particular context. A teacher might want to promote critical thinking skills in order to guide the students into discussing their ideas.

This is just a wikipedia page for the term "spanking", however it provides some interesting statistics about spanking from all over the world. I'll probably have a discussion with my class and ask them to predict what kind of topics the article will cover. I'll probably give them a range of questions like, who do you think gets spanked more, boys or girls? Then I'll have them skim the article to find the answers as homework.

Hi Delpha. If you are doing lessons on spanking, thought you might like this from Breaking News English-- good supplementary material! http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0909/090928-iq.html

Here you can find a dialogue between two people with different questions related to the human right topic .

Conversation Question on Human Rights critically examine a topic to develop their own higher order questions. Sample objectives include: After completing a question and answer activity, students will: develop attention to detail and critical analysis by formulating higher order questions concerning a given conceptsynthesize information in order to determine missing information or information deserving clarificationas determined by successfully attending to 80% of the requirements. Prerequisites: None other than adequate Web access.Materials and Resources: What needs to be prepared in advance by the teacher? Usually, the questions will center around a topic that the instructor or a guest presents. The topic may be presented through readings or a lecture prepared by the instructor or guest. What does the student need to bring to the lesson? Students need to view any prerequisite materials.

The site has been designed to engage students in reflecting activities related to Human Rights. There are PDF downloadable files clear explanations on how to develop the lesson. Students understand and reflect on Human Rights by participating, discussing, answering questions, and commenting on the topics given.

Human Rights Watch is an independent organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights- worldwide. They have the latest world news on various human rights issues. You can do a search by topic or world region. This site can be used to initiate class discussions via web 2.0 (or not) or to aid in research topics. It's probably most applicable for intermediate and beyond; adults and mature teens alike.