8.2

Grade 11

Mental and emotional health

Academic Year 2022/2023 – Term 2

Unit-8

Lesson no. 8.2
Lesson name: Peer pressure

Learning
outcome

By the end of the lesson, learners will be
able to:

Explain peer pressure and how it can impact
mental and emotional health.

Keywords

• Assertive – being confident without being aggressive

• Influence – to have an effect on the behaviour of

someone

• Positive – optimistic or confident

• Isolated – being separate from others

• Peer pressure is when you are

influenced by your peers to act or do
something in a certain way.

• Peer pressure is applied in different ways.

Peers are people you are friends with
or go to school with. They are in your
social circle, similar age or similar
interests.

Positive peer pressure

Peer pressure is not always a bad thing.

Negative peer pressure

• When a person is influenced by their

peers to behave in a positive way.

• For example:
• If your friend group in school wants to

achieve good marks this term, you may
be positively influenced to work and
study harder.

• When a person is influenced by their

peers to carry out negative actions that
might be against their morals and
values.

• For example:
• Your friends skip school for the day.

You don’t want them to think negatively
of you so you skip school with them.

Multiple Choice

peer pressure is always negative ?

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

A friend encourages you to try out for the basketball team. This is which type of pressure ?

• Positive

• Negative

Be assertive كن حازمأ
• Say no in a calm, respectful and convincing way. Be assertive.

Get out of dangerous situations
• If you think you are in a situation that is bad or you may be in danger, it is time to get out.

Take your time

. If you have been asked to do something and you are not sure if you really want to do it, take some time to think about the possible outcomes. If you feel that it is not right for you then you should say no. It is ok to tell someone that you want to think about it first.

Negative peer pressure can have a harmful effect on your health, your safety and your
performance in school or other aspects of life.

By the end of the lesson,
learners will be able to:

Explain peer pressure and how it can
impact mental and emotional health.

Learning
outcome

Multiple Choice

Your peers are :

• people about your own age

• your parents

• your teachers

• kids

Multiple Choice

Peer pressure can influence

• clothing styles

• hairstyles

• taste in music

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Personal qualities that can help people resist negative peer pressure include:

• speed and agility

• self-confidence and assertiveness

• money

• popularity