Online relationships and pressure
Digital communication can intensify pressure because messages travel quickly and may be copied beyond their intended audience.
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Recognise respectful and unsafe relationship behaviours
Key learning points
- • Warning signs
- • Keep evidence and get help
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 10 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
Words to know
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Online relationships and pressure
An English teaching video on this topic from Oasis Mental Health Applications-Thrive Compass. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.
In a nutshell
Recognise respectful and unsafe relationship behaviours
Explore the idea
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Learn
Warning signs
Control over passwords, repeated location demands, threats, humiliation and pressure to share images are unsafe behaviours, even when framed as jokes or affection.
Explore the idea
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Learn
Keep evidence and get help
Do not forward harmful material. Save evidence where safe, block or report the account, and tell a trusted adult or safeguarding professional.
Quick check
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Quick check
Which is a warning sign?
Quick check
Part 5 of 10
Quick check
Should harmful images be forwarded?
Quick check
Part 6 of 10
Quick check
A safe next step is…
Challenge round
Part 7 of 10
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 8 of 10
Game · Fill the gaps
Finish the sentences
Choose the word that belongs in each gap.
Control over passwords, repeated location demands, threats, humiliation and pressure to share images are ____ behaviours, even when framed as jokes or affection.
Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Online relationships and pressure
3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Which is a warning sign?
2. Should harmful images be forwarded?
3. A safe next step is…
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Your written work for this lesson
This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.
The group chat
Ellie is added to a class group chat with twenty-six people in it. At first it is jokes and homework questions. Then someone screenshots a private message from a girl in another class and posts it. Several people laugh. Two people leave the chat. Ellie says nothing, and feels bad about it that evening.
The next day the girl is off school. A teacher asks the class about the chat. Nobody wants to be the one who tells.
Staying silent can feel like the safest choice in the moment. It also leaves the person who was hurt on their own.
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Reading questions
- What choices did Ellie have at the moment the screenshot was posted?
- Who could she tell, and what would each of them be able to do?
- Write what you would do in this situation and why, in 6–8 sentences.
Thinking it through
WritingWrite what you would do in this situation, who you would ask, and why.
6–8 sentences
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