Topics - Ideas and Suggestions

 

Here are some topics and ideas for presentations/activities that we often receive requests for. We also encourage you to consider your own audience and topics that are relevant and interesting to them.

 

• Pop Culture: music, fashion, entertainment, sports, etc.

• Games: toys, sports, etc.

• Food: what is part of diet, traditional dishes, etc.

• Holidays: biggest holidays and festivals, etc.

• Civics: systems of government, beliefs and values, customs and traditions, etc.

• Water: the role of a resource like water in the day-to-day lives of people from other countries

• Stories: popular books, legends, myths, folklore, etc.

• Famous people: national heroes/heroines, people of influence, etc.

• Family life: values, principles, relationships, everyday routine, etc.

• Language: verbal (greetings, names, writing systems, etc.) and non-verbal (gestures, body language, proximity, etc.)

• Education system: structure, typical school day, uniforms, teacher-student relationship, etc.

• Arts: dance, theater, literature, music, etc.

• Gender roles: activities typically associated with male and female roles, etc.

• Geography: maps, globe, how the climate and borders influence daily life, population, minority groups, etc.

• History: past and current events

 

Please feel free to contact us (icsp.psu@gmail.com) if you have any questions. We will be more than happy to brainstorm with you.