Activity 1: Listening/Speaking

Before watching the following video, explain that it will show people being kind to each other. Tell students to make a list of kindness acts they see in the video. 

• Sample list items: 
• People helping each other 
• Picking something up for someone 
• Helping with groceries 
• Giving people food 

• After watching, have students share their list with a partner. 

Activity 2: Speaking

Show the following link on the projector: people being kind. 

• In partnerships, students should take turns describing a picture and their partner has to guess which picture they are describing.
• If necessary, review the grammar using “to be” verbs, specifically “there is” and “there are,” with descriptive adjectives. 
• “There are ____ (two people)”
• “There is _____ (a happy woman)” 
• “She is ______(smiling)”

Activity 3: Vocabulary 

Ask the students to list some words that are kind and make a list on the board. 

• Sample answers may include
• Help
• Give
• Thank
• Smile
• Help students to learn new words associated with the kindness, such as: 
• donate: to give something (like money) to a person or organization to help them
• Other things you can donate: blood, food, clothes
• generous: someone who is generous is willing to give money, spend time etc, to help people or make them happy
• Who do you know that is generous? 
• support: to help someone by being kind to them during a difficult time in their life
• Who shows you support? 
• give a hand: to help someone do something
• Who has given you a hand? 

Have students match each picture to the correct vocabulary word: 

Retrieved from: Donations_Charity_Clothing_Drive_MI600.jpg (600×338) (mcshin.org)

Retrieved from: A man feeding the cats, street, Lyon, France - People & Portrait Photos - N'importe Nawak by L. Despres (aminus3.com)

Retrieved from: Helping Someone Who's Grieving - HelpGuide.org

Retrieved from: MGAA'S Peter Staddon on giving young entrepreneurs a hand up 'the greasy pole' - Insurance Post (postonline.co.uk)

Activity 4: Speaking

Use the following situations as role-play scenarios for students to do in groups of three to four. Give the students 5-10 minutes to prepare (based on time). Their role plays should be about one minute, and all the group members should participate. 

• You see a mother at the store with her child, and the child won’t stop crying. You can tell the mother is stressed. 
• You see an old lady walking down the sidewalk alone with a walker. 
• One of your classmates makes a mistake, and everyone laughs at him/her.
• You see a group of children making fun of another child who looks very sad. 
• Your sibling is being mean to you for no reason.