Access to English: Social Studies
  • 1: Small Islands, Big Horizons
    • Background: An Empire Emerges
    • Focus: Victorious Decline
    • Literary texts
  • 2: The New World
    • Background: Becoming America
    • Focus: Superpower
    • Literary texts
  • 3: Power and Pomp
    • Background: Democracy in Britain
    • Focus: Brexit - Untying the Knot
    • Other texts
  • 4: We the People
    • Background: The Rules of the Game
    • Focus: On the Playing Field
    • Electing a President / Inaugural Address
    • The Handmaid's Tale / What Happenend
    • The Anglo-American World
  • 5: The Changing Face of Britain
    • Background: Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be
    • Focus I: Social Fault Lines
    • Focus II: Devolution in the UK
    • Prose texts
    • Literary texts
  • 6: The Divided States of America
    • Background: In the Pursuit of Happiness
    • Americanah
    • Focus I: The Great American Decline?
    • The Impact of Decline / American Debates
    • Focus II: Black America
    • The Help
    • I Have a Dream
    • Darkness in America / Another Day, Another Murder
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Prose texts

Generation Z

  • Who Are Generation Z?
  • How I Became a Brit
  • The Storm over Welsh-first Schooling

How Generation Z will Change the World

TIME magazine video

Bill Bryson on the passport

Bill Bryson talks about getting a British passport and why Britain is such a good country to live in for left-handed people like himself.

Textbook Tasks

  • Tasks: Who Are Generation Z?
  • Tasks: How I Became a Brit
  • Tasks: The Storm over Welsh-first Schooling

Extra Tasks

  • Scotland or Wales?
  • Youth crime

Listening

  • Extra listening: Dying for Dreadlocks
  • Tasks: Dying for Dreadlocks

Articles and Resources

  • Working with a novel - How to Be Good (Nick Hornby)
  • Task 9, p. 269: links
  • Task 6, p. 275: Life in Britain Tests
  • Task 5, p. 302: links

Links

  • Eight Key Differences between Gen Z and Millennials (HuffPost)

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-beall/8-key-differences-between_b_12814200.html
    (huffingtonpost.com)
  • Generations X; Y, Z and the others (WJ Schroer)

    http://socialmarketing.org/archives/generations-xy-z-and-the-others/
    (socialmarketing.org)
  • British citizenship (gov.uk)

    https://www.gov.uk/browse/citizenship/citizenship
    (gov.uk)
  • The Welsh education system

    http://www.wales.com/education-system
    (wales.com)
  • Welsh schools: an approach to bilingualism that can help overcome division (The Conversation)

    http://theconversation.com/welsh-schools-an-approach-to-bilingualism-that-can-help-overcome-division-79935
    (theconversation.com)
    An answer to the text on p. 299
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