Brazilian Nuns Drop the Beat

Lesson overview

“These are tools that God uses to touch people’s lives,” Sister Marizele Cassiano said, after she and Sister Marisa de Paula turned a Catholic TV interview into an unplanned beatboxing and dance performance that went viral worldwide. This Brazil esl lesson uses that real, joyful clip to build vocabulary around ministry and spontaneity, then explains the sisters’ actual reason for doing it: reaching young people struggling with addiction through music instead of a sermon. Students watch the real footage, then discuss why something so unexpected connected with so many people online.