English Conversation Class on Forgiveness with educational activities for advanced ESL students
Key Words: forgiveness, understanding, tolerance, pardon, reconciliation, exoneration, etc.
English questions on forgiveness
- What are some of the advantages of forgiveness?
- Does forgiveness require two people to be involved?
- Do you need to verbally excuse somebody for what he/she has done to you in order to forgive them?
Related Idioms, Proverbs & Expressions
- Off the hook: Excused – released – exempted
- Pardon/excuse my French: Used humorously to say that you are sorry for using a swear word or solecism
- Forgive a debt/loan: To write off – To declare that some money does not need to be paid back
Related Techniques to practice forgiveness
- Forgiveness is essential for mental health and peace of mind.
- Sit relaxed and take some deep breaths.
- Visualize yourself when you were most productive. Do not capture images of yourself when you were unproductive for any reason.
- In order to forgive yourself, first you need to forgive others.
- Mention the names of the people that you think they’ve offended you.
- Then say that you will forgive them entirely.
- Wish happiness and success for them, no matter how offensive they have been to you.
- Remember that if you hold grudge of them, you just hurt yourself.
- The acid test for forgiveness is that there are some memories and you do not delete the memories, but the memories are not that bitter anymore.
- If you don’t learn to forgive others, the only person who is hurt is you.
Argue for/against:
Please take an either positive or negative position to the statement below. You cannot be neutral. If all students have the same idea, the teacher will play devil’s advocate to have a heated argument.
On some occasions, you should not forgive.
Photo Scanning:
Please examine the photo below and try to come up with as many reasons as you can in support of the following statement:
This woman cannot forgive an offender.
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9- Can you mention some ways to help us forgive others?
Good question. We will discuss it in the class.
8. On what conditions does God forgive us our sins?
7. Can forgiveness increase the rate of crime in the society?
6. How would you react when somebody forgives you?
5. Which one is more true about you: forgiving others, or being forgiven by others?
4. Why is it necessary for you to forgive yourself?
3. What would happen if you continue holding grudges against people?
Nearly every one has been hurt by action or word of others , and it is natural to think of revenge or resentment by holding grudges. In reality holding grudges is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to get hurt by it. The anger,frustration and take away the youth and time thanks to an increase in the stress hormone cortisol. As it effects on your blood pressure, heart rate and most likely to die from heart disease.
Nice simile! I enjoyed it so much :)
Every one ==> everyone
effect ==> affect
2. Which one should come first: forgiving yourself or forgiving others?
Both should come eventually , at first your self and then others.
Yourself is one single word (no space required)
1. Do you think we should forgive others all the time? Please explain more.
To what extent will one be able to forgive? for example if someone kills his parents will they be forgiven I guess the answer is no.
‘For’ in for example should be capitalized because a new sentence starts.
Dear Noor, it’s so good to reply to my questions. I admire you.
But please create your own questions, too. Your question should be numbered “4” as we have 3 basic questions so far.
You are just replying to my questions. I want you to make independent questions of your own.