Influence means to change their mind about something or make them behave in a different way than they want to. Look at students who are influential. Powerful People Choose one of the people on Handout 2 and answer the listed questions. As texts on people are mainly factual, it is useful as an English activity to demonstrate to students how to draw inferences from those facts. Ask students to make a poster of their information.
Students present their research to the class.
The posters are grouped under power headings ie. Power through position or authority , power through status , power through wealth , power through force or violence . People with power also have responsibilities to use their power wisely. List the people in our society who don t have power. List the range of decisions that need to be made on a daily basis at school.