Abortion: video worksheets, differentiated x3

From the BBC ** Matters of Life and Death** series. See the BBC Teach > Secondary Resources > Religious Studies GCSE > Matters of Life and Death page for very extensive details, notes, and advice. The series comprises: abortion, animal experimentation, assisted suicide, capital punishment, just war, sibling saviours.

Anna, having had an abortion at the age of 17, believes everyone should have the right to choose if they want to be a parent. Marie, a mother of a young daughter with Down’s Syndrome, believes that every child has the right to live. This short film explores the moral and practical issues of abortion, from both religious and non-religious perspectives. It provides students with the opportunity to evaluate a range of beliefs, prior to consolidating their own viewpoint.

PLEASE be sure to watch the film before using it in lessons. Find the film by searching the BBC Teach website or YouTube’s BBC Teach channel for “GCSE Religious Studies: What are the rights and wrongs of abortion?"

14 questions for the 9-min film. This resource is much cheaper in the bundle. Differentiated THREE ways! All versions look similar, but “B” version has subtle clues, and “C” version requires pupils to cross out wrong answers, not write in correct ones, allowing pupils with literacy difficulties to access the work. Excellent subtitles: scripted, not auto-generated chaos. Questions right up to the end, no slack time. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Two different links to film on all sheets.