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BURQA BAN
Language Function: discussing issues advanced
upper-intermediate
Vocabulary / Topic: burqa ban in France; freedom; civil rights; controversies; discrimination; intermediate
religion; tolerance; Islam & the West pre-intermediate
issue introduction
Activity 1. Read the text below. What else do you
know about the problem? Have there been any
recent developments?
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debate:
Does the burqa ban protect Muslim womens
rights or tramples their freedoms?
Activity 3. Divide into two teams. Your team will support the ban, the other will
attack it. Study arguments below, think of other points you can make to prove that
the ban is a good idea. Discuss the issue with the critics of the ban.
BURQA BAN
debate:
Does the burqa ban protect Muslim womens
rights or tramples their freedoms?
Activity 3. Divide into two teams. Your team will oppose the ban, the other will
support it. Study arguments below, think of other points you can make to prove
that the ban is a bad idea. Discuss the issue with the supporters of the ban.
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