Family relationships' value

Family relationships’ value

Objectives:

• to motivate students for the learning activity;
• to train students’ grammar skills; to revise vocabulary;
• to improve students’ 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 promote positive attitude through studying the language;
• to develop self-esteem and mutual esteem;
• to develop a sense of respect for others.

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

• to use adjectives for personal characteristics;
• to fill in a personality questionnaire;
• to make up a personal profile;
• to ask and answer questions showing agreement or disagreement in a dialogue;
• to give reasonable arguments to support their ideas.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

Ex.1 p.12

Listen and read the poem “A Letter to My Mum” written by Y.Medvedeva. Discuss in class. What is your mother for you? Do you want to thank your lucky stars for your mother? Why?

2. vocabulary

Ex.2 p.12

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

1. precious adj having great value; treasured; affected

2. majestic adj causing admiration; splendid

3. quieten v to make smb/smth calmer or less noisy

4. placid adj calm and peaceful

5. to spoil v to ruin; to overindulge (spoiled, spoiled; spoilt, spoilt)

6. identity n the characteristics, qualities and attitudes, that make people different from others

7. hospitable adj welcoming; generous and friendly to guests, visitors

8. sensible adj practical; based on experience and reason

9. skilful adj accomplished; professional; good at doing smth

10. craft n skills needed for a particular activity

11. embroidery n patterns that are sewn onto cloth to decorate it

3. reading and speaking

Ex.3 p.13

Read the questionnaire, ask each other questions and write answers in the columns. Present the results of the most important questions in your opinion to the class.

Questions You /Your partner

1 Do you have a lot of pressure: parents, teachers, exams, etc.?

2 Do you have a lot of duties and responsibilities?

3 Do you have plenty of free time?

4 Do you have mobile telephones?

5 Do you have an opportunity to experiment with your hairstyles, clothes, diet, music, etc.?

6 Do you face many problems?

7 Do you have to help your parents about the house?

8 Do your parents want to know where you’re going when you go out?

9 Do your parents give you pocket money?

10 Can you watch TV as much as you want to?

11 Can you stay out after 11 p.m.?

12 Can you go on holiday with your friends?

13 Can you persuade adults to agree with you?

14 Do you try to understand your parents?

15 Do you ask your parents for a piece of advice to solve your problems?

16 Do you work hard to be successful in life?

17 Do you want to get good secondary education?

18 Do you learn to live among people?

These answers can help you: no; yes; yes, sometimes; I’m not sure; I hope so.

4.speaking

Ex.4 p.14

Discuss and make a list of advantages and disadvantages of being a teenager.

Some groups make a list of advantages, other groups make a list of disadvantages.

Present the results of your discussion to the classmates. Make a general list of advantages and disadvantages of being a teenager.

Ex.5 p.14

Discuss. What is life for you? What does it mean to be happy in your opinion? What and who influence you?

These words and expressions can help you:

hard-working, hospitable, sensible, kind-hearted, friendly, brave, ready for self-sacrifice, sincere attitude to a newcomer, polite, family-oriented, talented, honest, a good sense of humour, famous, distinguished, generous, skillful, clever, smart, beauty, courage, freedom, music, folk music, art, handicraft art, songs, dancing, folk songs, embroidery, wall painting, “pysankarstvo” (decoration of Easter eggs), traditional Ukrainian dances: kosachok, hopak, arkan, metelytsia, hutsulka, kolomyika, Ukrainian identity, Ukrainian

literature, Ukrainian language.

5. summary

Ex,6 p.15

Imagine yourselves to be grown-ups. You are 35—40 years old. Your children are teenagers. What do you expect your children to be? What will you allow your children to do? What won’t you allow them to do? Why? Present your ideas to the classmates and discuss in class.

These expressions can help you:

I will allow my future children:

• to have pocket money
• to stay out after 11 p.m.
• to go on holiday with their friends
• to watch any films they like
• to go to the disco
• to have parties at home
• to earn money after or before classes
• to have any hobby
• to wear any clothes and have any hairstyles
• to watch TV till night
• to play computer games day and night
• to miss lessons
• not to do their homework
• to have a pet
• not to help about the house
• to do sports
• to work hard to get good secondary education.

I won’t allow my future children:

• It is harmful for teenagers’ health
• It is good fun. It spoils the character
• It helps my children be strong and health
• It develops a personality
• It breaks the nervous system
• It broadens one’s outlook It helps become an educated person
• It helps be successful in life
• It will help in passing EIT
• Teenagers will be self-confident, self-determined, self-restrained and self-rigorous.

6.Homework

Ex.7 p.15

You’ve received an opinion essay from your pen friend Dick. He writes that he has problems with his parents and wants to know if you have problems with your relatives and how you solve them. Write

an opinion essay in which you present your personal opinion on the topic and support it with reasons and examples (about 100—120 words). Use the plan below to help you.

• Do you have problems with your relatives?
• What don’t they allow you to do?
• How do you persuade them to allow you to do what you want if it is possible?
• Can a lack of communication with parents influence teenagers?