Being concerned

I. Introduction

Teacher reads the quote:

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Mother Teresa

What is the topic of our today’s devotion?

How do you understand this trait of character?
II. Vocabulary

Students build a Mind Map

What things are you concerned about?

What did Mother Teresa mean?

III. Listening

Now you are going to listen to the text. The title is “Have a Beach Ball”.

Say what the text will be about.

Students listen to the text “Have a Beach Ball”

“Have a Beach Ball”

A businessman, tired of staring at his laptop computer, walked out of his hotel room and sauntered out the back door, down a long, wooden pathway, and onto the beach.

He came upon a young man sitting casually in the sand and reeling a fishing pole. The businessman looked him over and decided that the fisherman was lazy. He said, “It’s Tuesday afternoon, young man. You should be at work.”

The young man asked, “Why?”

“So you can make lots of money!” replied the businessman.

“Why?” was the only response.

“So you can build yourself a good retirement,” the businessman insisted.

“Why?”

By now the businessman was getting angry, “So you can retire in wealth and afford to come out to a nice beach like this and fish all day.”

The fisherman finally looked at the businessman, smiled, and cast his line back into the ocean.

IV. Discussion

What was the businessman concerned about?

What was the fisherman concerned about?

V. Cooperative work in groups

Students build a Mind Map

What things shouldn’t  we be  concerned about?

VI. Conclusion

Be concerned

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

Mother Teresa

I am concerned about …