DIY culture – ESL adult conversation lesson in Google slides format

This presentation contains a 28 slide, power point presentation with teacher’s notes.

The DIY movement revolutionized the furniture industry.

The DIY concept started out as a reaction to a growing materialistic society and was meant to give people back the value of hard work and the joy of creation. In order to make DIY products affordable, the compromise was the quality of materials and, with the fast-growing plastic and chemical industries, environmental pollution.

A well-meaning, revolutionary, social and economic idea gave birth to a wasteful toxic “Throw-away society”.

The throw-away society is influenced by consumerism, leading to overconsumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired.

This lesson discusses the idea of DIY, where it went wrong, and possible ways to fix it.

This lesson includes:

· What is the DIY concept and what brought it on?

· DIY and flat pack historical examples

· What is an RTA/ KD/ flat pack furniture?

· Advantages for the companies and the costumers

· What is the IKEA effect?

· What is "Planned obsolescence"

· What is the throw-away society and its consequences?

· How is the throw-away culture evolving?

· A possible future DIY society

This lesson was created as a conversation lesson with adult ESL students in mind but could be used with high school environmental and social programs.

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This download is appropriate for high school for students in Life skills classes, young students of ESL and adult ESL cultural and conversational classes.

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