LS1

What are the most common problematic situations you face with your family?

LS1: YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD

Do you have a big family? Who do you live with?How ofter do you...?

• have a meal with your family
• go our for a meals or to the cinema with a family member
• see your extended family?

Do you spend more of your free time with family or friends? Why?Are there any members of your family who you have very little contact with? Why?What do you and your family mainly argue about?Do you ever argue about phones?

Post reading (pair discussion)

Read the article about modern British family. Try to complete the gaps with the numbers from the list.

The modern family

Reading (Pre-while)

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What's the difference between...?1. a father and a parent2. a mother and a step mother3. a brother and a brother -in-law4. a stepsister and a half-sister5. a grandfather and a great-grandfather6. and adopted child and an only child7. brothers and sisters and siblings8. your immediate family and your extended family

Motivation

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SESSION 1: READING COMPREHENSION

Listen and check. Are there any statistics in the article which your think would be very different in your country? Why?

SESSION 2: VOCABULARY INPUT

Game: spin the wheel (personality adjectives)

Vocabulary worksheet

Vocab. practice (production)

Discussion (post)

Work in groups of 5; each of you is going to explain one of the alternative family types in the audio to the rest of the group.

What are the 5 types of non-traditional families mentioned in the video?

Define: non-traditional family

Non-traditional families

Listening (while)

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“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.”Michael J. Fox. How far do you agree with Michael J. Fox?Look at the picture: what does it suggest? What do you think this listening is about?

Motivation: making predictions (pre)

SESSION 3: ORAL COMPREHENSION

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SESSION 4: GRAMMAR INPUT

Motivation: cooperative warm-up

Explanation & controlled practice

Communicative practice

ON A TYPICAL DAY

AT THE MOMENT

Pronunciation practice (sentence stress)

Speaking practice (controlled): role-play

Motivation: warm-upfamily matters

SESSION 5: ORAL PRODUCTION (Product preparation)

Which are the most common reasons teenagers fight with their parents? Rank these ideas

• Clothes
• Image (piercings, dying your hair)
• Mobile phone use
• Video games
• Going out times
• Housework
• School (marks, homework)

Session 6: Grammar II -The challenge

The challengePART 1: Classify these verbs into action & state verbsPART 2: Make 10 sentences with these verbs in the right tense using these promptsPART 3: What would you use in these situations?

Motivation: warm-upAction verbs vs. state verbs.

Reflect & extend

Writing task

Analysing a sample text

Motivation/ warm-up

SESSION 7: WRITING A DESCRIPTION

STEP 1: Presentation: All about myself

SESSION 8: LANGUAGE ASSISSTANT

STEP 2: Students' questions about LA presentation

STEP 3: Group discussion (Families across cultures)

+ role-play rubric

Dialogue builder: problematic family situations

SESSION 9: PRODUCT

Oral presentations (in pairs)

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