Цель урока: формирование и развитие коммуникативных навыков, активизация лексики по теме «Семья. Семейные отношения».
Задачи урока:
- Образовательные: повторение и закрепление лексики по теме «Семья»; развитие умений строить монологическое высказывание, развитие диалогических навыков, развитие навыков говорения в рамках заданной учебной ситуации, совершенствование навыков чтения, отработка употребления модальных глаголов.
- Развивающие: развитие памяти, мышления, воображения, творческого потенциала учащихся.
- Воспитательные: развитие независимости, самостоятельности мышления, умения сотрудничать, чувства уважения к семейным ценностям.
Ход урока
1. Warming up
T: Hello, everybody! Pleased to meet you. Hope you are fine and ready to work. Try to do your best, show all your knowledge. I am sure you can.
Today we are going to talk about things concerning each of us. Look at this slide (slide 1), read the Chinese proverb and define the topic of the lesson.
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
Well, what are we going to talk about?
S: We are going to talk about family matters, about happy families who make a happy society and the happy world (love, mutual respect, tolerance, and understanding).
T: Our lesson is about family matters, about sometimes difficult family relationships and by the end of the lesson we should work out some rules to have a successful family life.
2. Developing vocabulary skills
1. Definition
T: To start with, let's define the word "a family".
What exactly is meant by the word "a family?" Can you define it?
S: "A family" means a group of people who are related to each other by blood (e.g. a brother or a sister) or by marriage (e.g. a husband and his wife's sister). [9]
T: You know the popular saying which says, "Blood is thicker than water". What does it mean?
S: Our family are the most important people in our life.
2. Types of families
T: Not all families are the same.
1. There are different kinds of families. What are they? (slide 2) Match the term and its definition.
|
Term |
Definition |
|
Nuclear family |
A family where couples either cannot or choose not to have children. |
|
Extended family |
A family that consists only of one parent who lives with the children. |
|
One-parent family (single parent) |
A family that consists not only of parents and children but also of grandparents and other family members. |
|
Blended family (Step family) |
A family that consists only of a husband, wife and their children. |
|
Childless family (Married couple) |
A family where one parent has children that are not related to the other parent. |
3. Work with the family tree
T: Study the family tree. Make up the sentences about the people in the family tree (slides 3,4).
4. Vocabulary exercises (slide 5)
T: Name the male/female equivalent [3].
stepfather…………………
brother-in-law………….
nephew …………………….
half-sister………………….
mother-in-law……………
grandson……………………
great-grandfather…...
ex-husband…………………
widow…………………………
twin-sister…………………
T: Relatives can be by birth and by marriage (slide 6).
Which of the following are relatives by birth and which are relatives by marriage?
Brother-in-law, uncle, niece, stepmother, half-brother, great grandparents, cousins.
5. Complete the sentences with the words in brackets (slide 7) [3]
1. Weren't the……vows beautiful at Anna and Nick's. (wedding/marriage)
2. There are just four people in my ………family? But more than twenty in my ……family. (extended/immediate)
3. My …. who came to the family celebration spanned three…. (generations/relations)
4. Some …. of ours recently gave us a photo album full of pictures of our ……(ancestors/relatives)
5. My…grandmother lives in a little ... cottage. (old/elderly)
6. A…family consists of father, mother and children whereas a … family consists of one parent and children. (single parent, nuclear)
6. Fill in: engaged, married, divorced, separated, single, get, widow, stepmother, in-laws [3] (slide 8)
1. My sister is ……to be …….to a wonderful man.
2. When she ……from her husband, she moved to her parents' house.
3. It's difficult to be a ……parent.
4. Her parents didn't … on well so they decided to get….
5. Mrs. Hams' husband died four years ago and she hasn't married again. She is a ……….
6. These are my husband's parents. They are my ….
7. When her mother died, her father got married to another woman. Her ……. looked after her well.
7. Explain the following words (slide 9)
Sister-in-law, to date, engaged, bride, divorce, custody, ancestor, generation gap.
3. Grammar task
Choose one of these modal verbs (can, may, must, should) to complete the sentences [2]:
- Conflicts … lead to bad relations.
- We … hear what the other person is saying.
- We … prevent conflicts.
- We … have respect for other people.
- Political parties …resolve conflicts by peaceful means.
- States … prevent wars if they decide to resolve conflicts peacefully.
- You … have better relations with people if you resolve a conflict peacefully.
- You … learn about conflict resolution if you read books about conflict.
- You … have more friends if you learn to resolve conflicts peacefully.
4. Reading task
Read the text; after reading the text choose "True" or "False" [6].
Carey Anderson lay on the bed, trying to fall asleep. As often happens late at night she was thinking of what she had to do the next day. She needed to get the washing done, and do the shopping, if she could find the time. Suddenly she heard a noise at the bedroom door and got frightened. She thought it could be a burglar -the one from a scary movie she had watched the night before.
The bedroom door opened slowly and she heard Angie's voice saying in the dark, "Carey! Carey! It's me". Carey got out of bed and looked at the clock. It said three in the morning. She turned on the lamp.
Her newly adopted child Angie stood next to the bed. She was only three years old and about three feet tall. Her white nightgown reached just below her knees. She was barefoot. Angie made a sign to follow her. In the corridor Angie turned the corner and led Carey to the brightly lit kitchen.
The kitchen was a complete mess. Carey saw the refrigerator door and the drawers wide open. Empty packages of ham and cheese, and white bread, spoons and forks were all over the kitchen floor. In the middle there was an open package of apple juice. The whole view of the kitchen was surprising for Carey and brought tears to her eyes. She never let the family go to bed without having a meal. She used to cook tasty dinners, bought sweets and fruit for Angie and would bake her favourite chocolate cake. She made a great effort for the new member of her little family. As Carey opened her mouth to shout at Angie for the first time, she noticed a tray in the middle of the kitchen table. On the tray there was a plate with two sandwiches, a glass of juice, two forks, and a folded napkin beside the plate. Angie walked over to a tray. "Are you hungry?" Angie asked. Carey looked at the little girl. Angie was smiling, her small finger pointing at the sandwiches. "See, Mum? One for you, one for me" she said, waiting for Carey's approval. It was the first time Angie had called her mum. Trying to smile through her tears, Carey grabbled Angie and kissed her a thousand times.
Then she picked up the food and sat down at the kitchen table. Angie jumped into her arms and there they sat at three in the morning, enjoying their ham and cheese sandwiches. That morning Carey was sure that a child's love was the best reason to wake up at three o'clock.
1. Late at night, Carey was watching a film.
1) True 2) False
2. Angie was Carey's little sister.
1) True 2) False
3. Angie was dressed for a walk.
1) True 2) False
4. Carey found the kitchen very untidy.
1) True 2) False
5. Angie had prepared a meal for two.
1) True 2) False
6. That night's event made Carey feel happy.
1) True 2) False
T: Explain what the problem is. Is this family happy?
5. Developing speaking skills
1. Family responsibilities
T: You know in a family every member usually has certain responsibilities.
What responsibilities should children have in a family?
What is your attitude to household chores?
2. Family conflicts
T: There is no doubt that to have loving and caring parents, brothers and sisters is really important. But no matter how much you love your family, unfortunately, there are sometimes hard situations in families. In particular, these situations happen when children become older. We've already mentioned a generation gap.
What can you say about a generation gap?
S: The generation gap is the difference between young people and old people who do not understand each other because of their age difference. [9]
Why do conflicts happen? Is it important to avoid or prevent conflicts in the family?
S (a sample answer): Conflict is a natural thing in our life. Conflicts happen because people are different: they want different things, they have different ideas, their values are different. Sometimes they don't listen to each other well. They think what they want to say and don't really hear what the other person is saying.
3. Watching the video. (slide 11) [4]
T: Watch the video and say what problems Izzy and George have in their families.
Why are George and Izzy so frustrated? What do they suggest to solve each other's problems?
What problems do teenagers can have in their families?
4. Working with the diagram (slide 12) [2]
Study the diagram and say what kind of problems teenagers have in their family and define the amount of them (in per cent).
Have you had similar problems in your families?
6. Work in pairs
Choose the five most common causes of conflict in a family from the list [2]. Explain your choice:
Parents want their children to obey them.
Children ignore their parents.
Parents don't approve of their children's friends?
Some family members don't have the same rights as other members of the family.
Children are dependent on their parents.
Children suffer unfair punishments.
Children/Parents make a fuss about silly things.
Children/Parents shout at their parents/children.
Children/parents don't observe the laws of co-existence.
Children/parents make fun of their parents/children.
Children/parents have too many responsibilities at home.
Children/parents have nobody to rely on.
Children/parents have nobody to talk to.
Parents interfere in the relationships with children's friends.
Parents don't like the music children listen to.
Parents think their children are lazy
Parents think their children waste much time with my gadgets
Parents try to solve children 's personal problems without children
Parents think children can have better marks at school
Parents break their promises
Parents don't like children's haircut.
T: Tell your partner what problems you have in your family and how you cope with them.
Act out the dialogues with your partner.
7. Group work. Discussing the situations
1.Divide the students into three groups and hand out the situation cards to them.
T: Imagine that you are a parent. What would you do in the following situations?
1) Your 9-year-old son refuses to perform the simplest duties about the house: to make his bed, to remove his toys, to wash his plate after dinner, etc.
2) Your 12-year-old daughter has become aggressive and difficult to control. She spends too much time with her friends, miss some lessons and smokes.
Your attempts to discipline her make the things worse.
3) Your 6-year-old son asks you to buy him a very expensive toy. He does not stop talking about it. Besides, his best friend's parents have already bought him 'that wonderful robot'. You don't want to upset your son but you can't afford to buy this toy.
The students have 5 minutes to discuss the given problem in the groups; afterwards they present their solution.
2.What should people do when they have a conflict? Use the ideas from the box (slides 13, 14) [2]:
| People should |
People shouldn't |
|
Be able to listen to each other, to quarrel without children, calm down and talk very calmly, find any compromise, give some pieces of advice (to ask for advice), respect smb's opinion, work out a list of rules, get along with, try to forgive and approve, understand the younger (older) generation, rely on own family, cheer smb up … |
Tell day and night to keep the room tidy, spoil the mood, threaten or frighten (bully), make fun of smb., make smb feel uncomfortable, make smb suffer from…, envy smb's success(to feel jealous), betray our friends, criticize smb, shout and quarrel in a loud voice, irritate smb, trouble with some boring or unpleasant things… |
8. Summarizing
T: Our lesson is coming to the end. What did you do at the lesson?
I ask you to assess yourself (from 3 to 5). Mark your result, please.
1. I worked hard
2. I listened attentively
3. I spoke English
4. I did grammar exercise
- От 18 до 20 - оценка 5
- От 14 до 17 - оценка 4
T: Thank you for the lesson. You worked actively and hard and I hope this lesson will be useful for you. I wish you to have happy families and to learn the art to live together and to overcome any difficult family situation. Let's have a friendly and understanding family. It depends on us.
The hometask for the following lesson is to write a composition "A family of my dream, the family I want to have".
I want to finish our lesson with the words by Mother Teresa "We can do not great things, only small things with great love".
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