Twelve ready-to-teach discussions built for perspective-shifting: what you owe someone you will never meet, who owns a river crossing three countries, when the world should interfere inside a border, whether aid helps, whose laws govern your data, whether the world should share one language, the commons problem, fair prices, cultural exchange, universal standards, and who speaks for people not yet born.

Written for teaching outside your specialism.

Every Talking Point carries a full Teacher Briefing: five-minute prep if you are covering the lesson at short notice, the background you need, dated key facts, where the experts genuinely disagree, and the questions pupils ask that catch teachers out. The pack also includes a Subject Background & Further Reading document — deeper context on all twelve topics with a curated reading list of named, stable sources rather than links that go dead.

Each Talking Point asks pupils to answer at four levels — personal, local, national and global — which is exactly what Cambridge Global Perspectives and MYP Individuals & Societies assess. Original stimulus, question ladder, both sides at equal strength, vocabulary, stems and teacher notes throughout.

Written for international and UK schools alike. Every Talking Point carries an international variant.

Includes:

12 Talking Points, each with a Teacher Briefing · Teacher Guide · Protocol Cards · Subject Background & Further Reading · Pupil Talk Log · Curriculum Map (Cambridge, IB MYP, BSO, UK) · Display Deck · References

Aligned to the Oracy Skills Framework (Voice 21 & Oracy Cambridge, University of Cambridge; © Voice 21 and the University of Cambridge, 2018 — ), an openly published framework. This resource draws on the Framework’s four strands but does not reproduce it. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or produced by Voice 21, the University of Cambridge or the DfE.
Verity Talking Points · Citizenship & British Values · Key Stage 3
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