What is Love?

Informative summary

- Level: Secondary School (Ciclo Superior)

- Specialism: Foreign Languages. Humanities & Social Sciences.
- Topic: Sexuality Education (Teen Dating Violence)
- Global goals
• To raise awareness about teen dating violence.
- Specific goals
• To learn about teen dating violence
• To reflect upon how this issue is dealt with in different cultures.
• To distinguish among healthy, unhealthy and abusive behaviors.
• To express views and ideas about what love relationships should be like.
- Final Task
- To design posters about this issue in groups of 2-3 SS. The poster must include at
least two big images and its aim will be to raise awareness about Teen Dating
Violence (TDV). It could be either digital or in paper and it might describe aspects
related to healthy and unhealthy/violent behavior. Skills that will be involved
• (Shadow) reading skills
• Interpretation skills
• Writing Skills
• Speaking Skills
- Genres and types of texts that will be used
• Narrative
• Advertisement
• Infographics
• Poster (for production)
• Descriptive
• Poetic/Song

- Intermediate tasks
• SS will read texts and share their response to them.
• SS will watch videos and take down notes of what they have grasped.
• SS will write sentences in English with a view to summarizing what they
have been reading, watching or listening to.
• SS will listen to a song and make hypotheses about it. After that, they will
listen to another version and put the lyrics in order.
• Speaking: SS will express their ideas in response to the videos and texts
selected for this sequence.
• SS will systematize key vocabulary and use them in their own responses to
texts and summaries.
• In groups, SS will read different TD behaviours (see quiz) and categorize
them into three groups: healthy, unhealthy and abusive.
• SS will solve a TD quiz and comments on results and their impression.
 - Linguistic items to be taught
• Vocabulary and expressions related to violent, abusive and healthy behaviours
such as
• Linguistic exponents to persuade, give definitions and describe such as Stop
_____; TDV awareness campaign, Let’s stop ________; It is not love if….; He
doesn’t love you if __________; Love is about…, etc.

Lesson 1

Opening (15 minutes)

1. SS watch three short videos in Spanish about teen dating. As they watch them,
they are expected to write down key ideas and feelings.
2. WC share their responses to the videos. As they speak, T writes key words and
ideas on the board. Then T checks SS’ comprehension and pronunciation of those
words and phrases.
3. SS write a sentence in English to express their opinion on the topic.

Development (30 minutes)

1. SS listen to part of the song What is Love?, by Haddaway. They describe their
feelings and make hypotheses about the message conveyed by it. WC discuss this.
2. T introduces another version of the song, performed by Kesczia (2009). As SS
listen to it, they put the lyrics in order in groups. After that, WC checks their
arrangement of the song.
3. T provides SS with a copy of the lyrics and SS answer the questions below:
• Is the person happy with this relationship? Why (not)?
• What phrases and vocabulary show the lyrical I’s feelings?
• What should this person do?

Closure (15 minutes)

SS read some generally-acknowledged ideas about love and choose the three ones they
feel most identified with. WC discusses their views on those myths.

Lesson 2

Opening (10 minutes)

SS watch a video showing a dance performance about teen dating violence. They go over
the vocabulary and phrases used in the previous lesson to describe the story told in the
performance.
Development (30 minutes)

1. In groups of 3-4 SS read infographics about teen dating violence. They note down
key facts and figures.
2. WC share information.
3. Each group will then be given different sentences describing teen dating
relationships. SS interpret and classify those sentences into three groups: healthy,
unhealthy and violent behaviours.
4. WC discussion about sentences and their classification.
5. T provides SS with a copy of a quiz to identify unhealthy and unhealthy behavior.
SS solve a quiz from www.loveisrespect.org which describes aspects of relationship
spectrum.
6. SS write their ideas about TDV. They can use the questions and prompts below as
a guide:

• What should I look in a partner?

• What makes a relationship abusive?
• It is (not) love if your partner…
• Love is about ….
• Abusive relationships are …
• Partners should (not) …
• What I expect from my partner is …
• We should (not) ….
• A good partner would never …/a bad partner would …
• If your partner ….,
• I would like to be with someone who…

Closure:

SS reflect upon what they have learned and write a paragraph about it. They can do this
task in Spanish.

Lesson 3

Opening (5 minutes)

T explains to SS that they are going to produce a series of digital posters about teen
dating violence. The posters will be shared to the school community through the school
Facebook profile. The idea is to raise awareness about this issue.

Development (1 hour 40 minutes)

1. WC discussion about what makes a good poster.

2. SS google posters specially design for TDV campaigns. In groups, they describe
main features and strategies by observing the role played by images and fonts,
how words and pictures are arranged in the poster, taking down notes of messages
and the overall purpose of each poster. Then T will organize on the board a
spidergraph with that information.
 3. WC discussion. T shows other examples and provides ideas and suggestions.
It is not love if …
It is love if …
Love is about …
Love does not …
4. WC watches a tutorial and/or read an article about how to make good posters.
5. In pairs SS plan and work on their posters.

Closure (15 minutes)

SS show their productions to the WC.

LESSON 1

What is love?

Mmm.. Ooh..

I don't know you're not there.

I give you my love, but you just don't care.
Was I right, was I wrong?
Give me a sign.

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, dont hurt me, no more.
• Is the person happy
Ooh ooh.. with this relationship?
Why (not)?
I don't know, what can I do?
What can I say it's up to you. • What phrases and
I know your right, just me and you. vocabulary show the
I can't go on. lyrical I’s feelings?
• What should this
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more. person do?
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more, no more.

Ooh, ooh... yeah..

Ooh, ooh, ooh... yeah

I want no other, no other lover

This is your life, but it's our time.
But when we are together, I need you forever.
Is this love?

What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, baby don't hurt me, no more, no more.

Don't hurt me, no more

Baby don't hurt me, no more... no more

Source

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kiesza/whatislove.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I
Generally-acknowledged ideas about love

Love is eternal Soulmates Love hurts

Love Changes All Love is irrational

Love is irresistible Jealousy is a sign of love

Love=Passion Love is a strong feeling of
attraction
Which quotes and ideas do you feel more identified with? Which ones do
you disagree with? In your opinion, what is love? What should it be like?

What have you learned in this lesson? Write your thoughts in English or
Spanish.
Lesson 2

Watch this video and take down notes of what calls your attention, the words that
appear on the performers’ bodies and the information that is given both at the beginning
and at the end of the video.

Group Work

Choose two infographics and write about the information you can understand.

Topic(s) Information
Infographic 1

Infographic 2

Which key words or phrases would you choose from the infographics you selected? Write
them down

What have you learned about TDV? Write your answer in English or Spanish

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Think about your own relationship with your partner. If you are not dating at the
moment, think about a previous relationship or that of someone you know well. Then
answer this quiz.

http://www.loveisrespect.org/lir-files/Cora-Healthy-Relationships-Spectrum.pdf
Group Work (Resources)
Lesson 1 (lyrics)

Mmm.. Ooh..
I don't know you're not there.
I give you my love, but you just don't care.
Was I right, was I wrong.
Give me a sign.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
Ooh ooh..
I don't know, what can I do?
What can I say it's up to you.
I know your right, just me and you.
I can't go on.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more, no more.
Ooh, ooh... yeah..
Ooh, ooh, ooh... yeah
I want no other, no other lover
This is your life, but it's our time.
But when we are together, I need you forever.
Is this love?
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
Baby don't hurt me, baby don't hurt me, no more, no
more.
Don't hurt me, no more
Baby don't hurt me, no more... no more
Infographics
Lesson 2. Classification of behaviours
Webliography

Lesson 1

1) Opening Videos
• Master Spot Noviazgo HD
• El amor no duele
• Spot de bien público "Silencio" - Violencia de género en noviazgos adolescentes.
2) Canción
• https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kiesza/whatislove.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I

Lesson 2

1) Domestic Dance Performance Video

https://youtu.be/FGyFBOOErLQ
2) Quiz
http://www.loveisrespect.org/lir-files/Cora-Healthy-Relationships-Spectrum.pdf

Suggested websites

www.loveisrespect.org

https://jenniferann.org/tdv.htm

http://stoptdv.org/

Video Games about relationships

https://jagga.me/