This document outlines the learning agenda for a lesson on family values. It includes a review of the previous lesson, an introduction to the topic of family values, a reading activity with discussion questions, learning English expressions to discuss opinions, an interview and reporting activity about different cultures' family values, creating a "family values sign", and a mini debate on whether children should be allowed to argue with parents and elders. The lesson incorporates reading, discussion, interviews and presentations to explore family values within and across cultures.

1. Family Values Topic of the night: He Zhou (Anna) 周贺

2. Learning agenda of the night 1. A brief review of what has been learned last night 2. Introduction of tonight’s topic—family values. 3. Reading activity 4. Learning new English expressions to talk about your opinions 5. Whole class discussion on the reading material 6. Interview and Report activity 7. “Messengers and Messages” behind family values of diverse cultures 8. Individual work and presentation 9. Mini-debate

3. Review the learning of last night Topic: Family eat together We talked about: the importance of family eat-together; 20 American family table manners and that of your cultures; e.g. 16. Elbows and arms are never placed on the table. new expressions focusing on using English past tense;

4. Values Values: Values are the beliefs of a group of people shared as a whole. Value is both a noun and a verb. Family values; We value family.

5. Family values—a family values sign

6. Reading activity Step1: Read the piece of reading and you have 6 minutes to finish it. Step2: Read and think about the question after each paragraph, you can draw down your thoughts on a piece of paper. Do the reading by yourself, later we will have a whole class discussion Please feel free to ask questions when you have difficulty understanding a word or a sentence.

7. Before reading Vocabulary in paragraph 1: nuclear family: a family that consists of father, mother and children, when it is thought of as a unit in society. purpose: goal, intention, or function of something as well as: and Vocabulary in paragraph2: emphasis: special importance that is given to something confusing: difficult to understand, not clear Vocabulary in paragraph4: honored guest: a highly respected, very important guest

8. Express your opinions in English! Ways to ask for opinions Do you think...? What do you think about...? What's your opinion of...? How do you feel about...?

9. Express your opinions in English! Expressions to give opinions 1. In my view,__________________________________ 2. In my opinion, _________________________________ 3. From my point of view, _______________________________ 4. As far as I'm concerned, _______________________________ 5. It seems to me that ______________________________________ 6. I would argue that ______________________________________ 7. I believe that/I do not believe that _________________________ 8. I agree that/ I disagree that _______________________________ 9. To be honest, I think______________________________ 10. If you ask me, ___________________________________

10. Interview and Report Step1: Work with a classmate who is NOT from your culture. Step 2: Interview your partner! (3 minutes) Questions for interview: 1) Which cultural background do you have? 2) What are the 3 most important family values in your culture? When you are an interviewer, please write down the answer briefly on the paper. When you are an interviewee, please answer questions by using the sentence structure on the paper. Step3: Share with the whole class. Each interviewer should talk about the answers they have got from your partner and share the 3 important family values in your partner's culture. So you will change your role to be a reporter from an interviewer! Each reporter has 2 minutes to report!

11. Draw your family values sign and share it with the class! 

12. Mini-debate: Topic of our mini-debate"Should children be allowed to argue with their parents and senior family members?" There is only one rule in this mini-debate activity: RULE: Use the new expressions you have just learned to express your opinions.

13. Brief review and what’s next