Your Life - Student Book 1 - Bullying

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9 You and other people What is bullying? Bullying can take many forms, such as: ● Physical bullying – pushing or hitting someone, damaging their things, stealing from them or forcing them to hand over money or belongings. ● Verbal bullying – name calling, spreading rumours, nasty teasing, threats, insults. Sending nasty or threatening e-mails or text messages. ● Emotional bullying – ignoring or deliberately leaving someone out. Making nasty remarks about someone’s family or home life. Always criticising or ‘rubbishing’ everything they do. ● Prejudice bullying – bullying someone because of the colour of their skin, their religion or country of origin. Some people may get bullied because they wear glasses or a hearing aid, or just because they look different. From the Kids Aware website

❝Picking on someone and tormenting them all the Claire time.❞ ❝Bullying is making you do things you don’t Jason want to do by threatening you.❞ ❝A bully is a person who deliberately sets out Khalid to hurt someone else.❞ ❝Sometimes teasing is bullying. It depends who is teasing you and what they are teasing Morgan you about.❞

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Discuss these comments about bullies and bullying. What is the difference between teasing and bullying? Discuss the different forms of bullying. Are some kinds of bullying more hurtful than others? Draft a short statement giving your group’s definition of bullying. Choose a spokesperson to report your views and share them in a class discussion.

Who gets bullied? There is no such thing as a typical victim. Bullies pick on people for all kinds of reasons. A person may come from a different background or speak with a different accent. They may be picked on because they look different – they wear glasses or a brace – or because they have red hair or dark skin. They may be good at exams or come bottom of the class. They may like the ‘wrong’ music or wear the ‘wrong’ clothes. However, the victim is often physically weaker or younger than the people who torment them. Cher Lloyd: It’s funny to say “How do you cope?” Because I don’t cope with it. It’s really hard. If I get a nasty tweet or someone shouts at me in the street, that’s really disrespectful to me and my family. I kind of wait until I get home. You shut the door and then you can have a good cry about it. No one needs to know.

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One Direction’s Zayn Malik was targeted by online bullies after his cousin uploaded a family photo from a Muslim festival.


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