Oct 19, 2026 · 22 min
English lesson turns bullying into practical safety language
Talking About Bullying 🤡🧌🐷 | Slow English Podcast | Episode 231 | English With Us Podcast | With Subtitles
The episode gives beginner English learners precise, calm language for recognizing bullying, seeking help, documenting incidents, and supporting others safely.
- 1Bullying can involve repeated cruelty, exclusion, rumors, harassment, or harmful behavior at school, work, in groups, and online.
- 2Clear boundary-setting, specific reporting, and careful documentation help people explain what happened without escalating danger.
- 3Bystanders can support targeted people by listening, accompanying them, reporting concerns, and seeking appropriate help when threats or danger arise.
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The role-play sequence combines asking for help, offering support, and setting a clear limit in calm, specific language.
The brief
David and Emma introduce bullying as both a language topic and a safety problem, giving A1–A2 learners practical phrases for discussing hurtful behavior.
The lesson moves from name-calling, rumors, exclusion, and embarrassing behavior to workplace bullying, harassment, and cyberbullying, showing how widely the problem can appear.
Its central advice is deliberately calm: set a clear limit, prioritize safety over arguing, and tell a trusted adult, supervisor, or other appropriate helper.
The hosts make reporting concrete by practicing specific explanations and recommending records of dates, places, incidents, messages, and screenshots when safe and useful.
Role-plays bring the lesson together as a student asks for help, a friend offers support, and someone sets a non-aggressive boundary while threats require urgent assistance.
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