Children and parents. Generation gap (Буренко, 2019)

Children and parents. Generation gap

Objectives:

• to introduce and practice the new topic;
• to revise previously taught vocabulary;
• to focus students on using antonyms;
• to improve students’ reading, and speaking skills;
• to develop students’ communicative competence;
• to activate thinking imagination;
• to encourage understanding and tolerance to others;
• to broaden student’s outlook; to develop self-esteem and a sense of respect for others.

Outcomes: by the end of the lesson students will be able:

• to use adjectives to describe a person’s character;
• to express their personal opinion on the topic;
• to discuss the questions showing agreement or disagreement;
• to define the text main ideas and specific information.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

Ex.1 p. 4 Discuss the proverbs

• Little children – little sorrow, big children – big sorrow.
• A little tree is known by its fruit.

2. speaking

Ex.2 p. 4

Complete the mind map “Happy family”

3. vocabulary

Ex.3 p.4

1. well-disposed  adj having friendly feelings towards smb/smth

2. sociable adj enjoying to be with other people; gregarious

3. generous adj demonstrating a desire to give money, help, etc.

4. intelligent adj good at learning, thinking in a logical way

5. hard-working adj putting much effort into a job and doing this job well

6. honest adj always telling the truth

7. courageous adj not feeling danger to do smth

8. truthful adj always telling the truth, honest

9. talkative adj enjoying talking a lot

10. frustrated adj having no effect; not being satisfied

11. defensive adj protecting smb/smth against attack

12. unreasonable adj not fair; expecting too much

13. maturity n the quality of thinking and behaving in a sensible, adult manner

14. to exaggerate v to make smth seem better, worse, larger or more important than it really is

4. speaking

Ex.4 p.4

Put each word into the correct column. Add some more positive or negative adjectives.

Obedient, naughty, polite, well-disposed, sociable, generous, intelligent, hard-working, strict, brave, truthful, courageous, honest, attentive, talkative, rude, inattentive, stupid, serious, greedy, noisy, tender, cowardly, kind, clever, lavish, friendly, gregarious, lazy, funny, dishonest, helpful, happy, caring, constructive, aggressive, dangerous, exciting, crazy, good, cautious, calm, shy, frustrated.

Ex.6 p.4.

Tell your classmate about your parents

5. reading and speaking

Ex.5 p.4

Describe parents and yourselves. Write the descriptions down. Add some more words.

Ex.7 p.5

Read the essays concerning the topic “generation gap” which are written by pupils of the Ukrainian college named after V. O. Sukhomlynskyi, discuss and say what these essays have in common. Do you

agree with these pupils? Present the results of your discussion to the classmates.

6. listening

Ex.8 p.7

Listen to the text about a man talking about solving problems through effective communication. For questions (1—4) choose the correct answers (A, B, C or D).

7. Vocabulary practice and summary

Ex.9 p.7

Match the parts of the sentences. Say if you can find some of these people in your class. Answer the questions and discuss.

8. Homework

Ex.10 p.8

Give suggestions on how to solve teens’ problems.

Include the following:

• social inclusion;
• problems;
• problems solving.