Communication skills. Relationships with parents. Tolerance

Communication skills. Relationships with parents. Tolerance

Objectives:

• to motivate students for the learning activity;
• to check students’ grammar skills; to revise the vocabulary;
• to improve students’ listening and speaking competence;
• to develop students’ full individual potential;
• to develop communicative skills;
• to promote thinking and creative imagination;
• to encourage understanding, tolerance and the enjoyment of diversity;
• to develop self-esteem and mutual esteem, a sense of respect to peers and adults;
• to bring up students’ responsibility.

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

• to use word-combinations to express personal attitude to other people;
• to read / listen and understand about people relationships;
• to understand the necessity of tolerance.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

Ex.1 p. 16

Read these funny statements about teenagers, find out the most interesting statement in your opinion. Add your own statements and present them to the classmates.

1. A teenager is a person who can hear his or her favourite singer from far but doesn’t hear his or her mother calling from the next room.

2. A teenager is sure that his or her parents were never teen agers.

3. A teenager is a romantic who never falls in love more than once a week.

2. speaking

Ex.2 p.16

Describe the feelings of being a teenager. Add some more words which have not been mentioned in the list given below.

These words and the example can help you:

relaxing, wonderful, exciting, dangerous, dependent, independent, fantastic, difficult, interesting, stressful, safe, boring, free, awful, active, excellent.

In my opinion, the feeling of being a teenager is fantastic but a teenager has a lot of problems.

3. vocabulary

Ex.3 p. 16

Listen and read the new words and their definitions. Make some sentences with these words.

1. to indulge (in smth) v to take part in an activity that is illegal;

                                      to have or do smth that is considered bad for you

2. swing n a change from one opinion, mood, etc. to another (from being very happy to being very

sad); v to move from side to side

3. incomprehensible adj unintelligible; impossible to understand

4. rebellious adj unwilling to obey rules or accept normal standards of behaviour

5. drastic adj extreme in a way that has a sudden effect on smth

6. indecisive adj unable to make decisions

7. temptation n the desire to do or to have smth that you know is bad or wrong

8. pertinent adj relating to a particular matter; relevant

9. assertive adj expressing opinions strongly and with confidence

4. reading

Ex.4 p.17

Read the text “Relationship between Parents and Teenagers”. For each of the empty spaces (1—10) choose the correct answers (A, B, C or D).

5. writing

Ex.5 p.19

Answer the questions after text from ex.4

6. reading and speaking

Ex.6 p.19

Choose five of the most important rights in your opinion. Give your reasons why you think so. And what about our responsibilities? Do you agree with them or disagree? Give your reasons.

7. summary

Ex.7 p.20

Read the text below and discuss. Choose the best type of behaviour when you communicate with others to exchange information, news, etc. and when you share your ideas with other people so that they understand them. Give your reasons while presenting the results of the discussion.

8. Homework

Ex.9 p.21

Remember some situation in your relationship with your parents. Write a paragraph of about 45—60 words.

Include the following:

• what situation it was;
• how you felt;
• how this problem was solved.