Culture
A selection of culture news lessons from The Guardian Weekly, focusing on general interest stories, each with an accompanying worksheet of activities.
The resources include downloadable worksheets with teaching notes and weblinks to websites where students can do further research. Please write to the web editor if there is anything you would like to see included in this section.
Culture news lessons for older teenagers
Culture news lessons: Beware the shopocalypse
Type: News lesson
One man's crusade against consumerism in New York.
Culture news lessons: The influence of American culture
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Invasion through the big screen and the television.
Culture news lessons: Slackers at Covent Garden
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
The riffraff are storming the barricades of high culture.
Culture news lessons: Harry's gaffe
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Harry's bad choice of costume.
Culture news lessons: Fast food in court
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
The American trial against the fast food industry.
Culture news lessons: Hollywood boys' club
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Are there enough women making films? Hollywood remains a boys club with women directors and writers hitting a 'celluloid' ceiling.
Culture news lessons: Shakira
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
A pop star with politics.
Culture news lessons: Pot and porn
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
An article about black markets in the US.
Culture news lessons: NYPD moves to the beat of rap music
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
A story from New York about the police listening in to rap.
Culture news lessons: Pregnant and proud
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
A controversial new statue depicting a naked and pregnant woman is to be unveiled in London's most famous square.
Culture news lessons: Jerry Springer: The Opera
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Blasphemy and censorship. Who controls what we watch on TV?
Culture news lessons: London's wobbly bridge
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Using a plate of jelly to test a bridge?
Culture news lessons: The latest gadget
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Consumerism gone slightly mad or consumers who are pioneering early adopters?
Culture news lessons: We are all teenagers
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Culture is dominated by the concerns of young people.
Culture news lessons: Should TV entertain or inform?
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
In Britain the soaps, the 'reality' shows and celebrity TV dominate the small screen.
Culture news lessons: The Princes of Ponderosa
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Light-hearted article about how some Australians have declared their homes, streets or suburbs independent of the Australian government.
Culture news lessons: Game show cheats
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
Who wants to be a millionaire so much that they will cheat in order to win? The court case that followed the TV game show.
Culture news lessons: Honking horns
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
A lyrical response to the nuisance of traffic noise in the big city.
Culture news lessons: Honking horns teacher's notes
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
A lyrical response to the nuisance of traffic noise in the big city.
Culture news lessons: English butler teacher's notes
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
English butler leads China's latest cultural revolution.
Culture news lessons: English butler
Level: Intermediate Type: News lesson
English butler leads China's latest cultural revolution.
