Unit 1. Home life

Unit 1
B - Speaking
Content:
Guiding questions
Lead in
Activate
Study
Practice
Post-speaking
Guiding questions:
How do families affect individuals or their members?
How does each member contribute to his or her family?
Look at these picture below and then answer the questions:
What are the differences between the two pictures in terms of
Number of people present
Number of generations
Who they are.
Extended family
Nuclear family
Patterns of family have diversified considerably. Nowadays we have:
Extended family
Nuclear family
Single parent family
Childless family
Others
Definitions:
Nuclear family: the mother, father, sisters, and brothers.
Extended family: the family members of a nuclear and grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, and in-laws.
Single parent family: only one parent and children


Childless family: couples living together without any child
Whichever kind of family it can be,
there are advantages and disadvantages.
→ In your opinions, what do you like or hate most when you are with your family and when you are not?
Work in pairs to fill in the chart
Privacy is disturbed.
Responsibility of supporting family is not shared.
Grandparents, their children and grandparents live happily.
Housework is not much.
Responsibility can be shared, housework is more easy.
Parents have condition to care for their children.
Here are some suggestions from your friends
Study:
How can we express our agreement and disagreement about somebody’s ideas or opinions?
Some suggestions from students:
Study: Some useful phrases:
Agreement:

Yes, that’s right.
I think so.
I agree entirely/ completely.
I suppose it’s/ you’re right.
That’s exactly what I think.
I couldn’t agree more.
That’s a good point.
Sure.
Disagreement:

I’m not sure I can agree.
I may be wrong, but…
I don’t think so, because…
I’m afraid that I don’t agree because…
Well, you have the point there, but…
I couldn’t agree less.
Study:
Whenever you disagree with someone, even they are those you know well, be sure to do that POLITELY, and give the REASONS.
Some expressions to state your opinions:
I think…
If you ask me…
The point is…
In my opinion…
You know what I think, I think that…
Practice:
Work in groups of three. With your partners, choose one of the statement below and use the aforementioned expressions to discuss it :

There are more and more single-parent families nowadays.
Husbands and wives should share equal housework.
Men are expected to support their families while women can choose whether to work or not.
Mothers play a more important role in bringing up children than fathers do.
The more children in a family the merrier.
Practice: Some words and phrases
Birth control
Women’s liberation
Generation gap
Loneliness
Burden
Household appliances
Household chores
Work flextime
Standard of living
Tolerance
Earn money
“Bread-winner”
Maternal
Paternal
Share responsibility
Practice:
Come back to the questions raised in the beginning. Discuss them, using the technique of agreeing and disagreeing.
State your own opinions after all these discussions.
Post-speaking: Listen to the song and fill in the blanks

Back when I was a _____ , before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me _____ and dance with my mother and me and then
Spin me around `til I fell asleep
Then up the ______ he would carry me
And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another ________ , another walk, another dance with him
I`d play a song that would never, ever end
How I`d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
When I and my mother would _________
To get my way, I would run from her to him
He`d make me laugh just to ________ me
Then finally make me do just what my mama said
Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he would be _______ from me

child
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high
stairs
chance
disagree
comfort
gone
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Post-speaking: Listen to the song and fill in the blanks
If I could steal one final______ , one final step, one final dance with him
I`d play a song that would never, ever end
`Cause I`d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
Sometimes I`d listen outside her _______
And I`d hear how my mother cried for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me
I know I`m _______ for much too much

But could you send back the _____ man she loved
I know you don`t do it usually
But dear Lord she`s _________
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever________
glance
door
praying
dying
dream
only
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Thank you
See you again