Youth life style

See what’s most important to you and then bring it down to the bare necessities. Compare your lifestyle with those in other parts of
the world and produce a TV show about it.

Aim: to compare ‘lifestyles’ from around the world and look at the kind of lifestyle challenges we want to encourage at the Festival.

Age group: 6-10, 11-15 (recommended in separate age groups).

Number of participants: 6-10.

Time required: 30 minutes.

Resources needed: lifestyle cards, a set for each participant.

What to do:

[This activity is best done later in the Festival, as it’s introducing some lifestyle aspects/personal commitments to the themes of Global Village.]

Part I

Prepare the printed cards. Give one set to each person. Everyone should spend a few minutes on each of the following three stages.

Ask everyone to look at the cards. Which ten of these are most important for you to maintain your lifestyle?

Now imagine that you have to prioritize only five of the ten you chose.

Put these in order of importance for you. Find a partner and compare your top five, including the order in which you put them. Which ones from your original ten will be quite easy to do without and which will be more difficult?

Part II

Ask everyone to get into groups of mixed gender, age, and culture/country background (it is important to ensure as good a mix as possible.)

Reveal the questions below on a flip chart (use symbols if you prefer and tell everyone what they mean - some examples shown) and ask everyone in their groups to find out these things from each other:

  • What time do you get up? (bed)
  • How long do you spend at school? (school building)
  • Do you earn any money, if so doing what? (coin)
  • At what times of day do you eat? (a plate/bowl)
  • What is something you bought recently and why did you buy it?
  • What is your main ambition in life?

Each group is then to produce a quick five minute TV show presentation, “Youth Lifestyle”, which aims to look at differences and similarities between young people around the world. They can start by using some of the responses to the questions.

The groups will need to decide how to divide up their members and how the TV show will work, but each person must have things about their daily life featured in the show and people can have more than one role/character.

Each aspect of lifestyle featured should try to show either something about the individual or something about the general culture, and it may show both.

Extension:

Go to borrow a video camera to film your TV show and ask to have it shown on Global Village news.