NEIGHBOURHOOD
Neighbourhood (British English and Canadian English), or neighborhood (American English), is a community that is geographically localized within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.
In this topic, students will explore neighbourhoods as social communities with direct (face-to-face) interaction among its members.
Students will be offered opportunities to communicate about the topic of Neighbourhood, by looking at examples of personal, local, national and global interest in a range of subtopics:
- Types of housing: flat/apartment, house, cottage, studio
- Facilities: banking, post, recreation, recycling, open spaces, shops
- Municipalities: city, town, village
- Community activities
- Neighbours
- Problems (pollution, rubbish, homelessness, traffic)
- Public transport
- Directions
By being exposed to a variety of text types in relation to Neighbourhood, students will be challenged to compare the target language and culture(s) to other languages and cultures, as well as to other disciplinary areas in the DP.
Through the treatment of a variety of subtopics, students will also be invited to answer a range of questions in the context of the study of neighbourhood, like the following:
- What purpose do rules and regulations have in society?
- What is my role in society?
