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English 12
Unit 1:
HHOOMMEE LLIIFFEE
18th Dec 2006
Technology in Language teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu – Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh

Content:
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2006
Guiding questions
Lead in
Activate
Study
Practice
Post-speaking
Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh
Nga & My Thanh

Guiding questions:
1. How do families affect individuals
2. How does each member contribute
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2006
or their members?
to his or her family?
Nga & My Thanh

Lead in:Look at these picture below
and then answer the questions:
What are the differences between the two pictures in terms of
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2006
Number of people present
Number of generations
Who they are.
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Lead in:
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Extended family
Nuclear family
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Lead in:
Patterns of family have diversified
considerably. Nowadays we have:
Extended family
Nuclear family
Single parent family
Childless family
Others
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

Lead in:
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.
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

Lead in:
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Single parent
family: only one
parent and
children
Childless family:
couples living
together without
any child
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Lead in:
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?
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

Activate: Work in pairs to fill in the chart
1. Privacy is disturbed.
2. Responsibility of supporting family is not shared.
3. Grandparents, their children and grandparents live
4. Housework is not much.
5. Responsibility can be shared, housework is more easy.
6. Parents have condition to care for their children.
Kinds of family Advantages Disadvantages
A single parent family
A nuclear family
An extended family
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2006
happily.
Nga & My Thanh

Activate:
Here are some suggestions from your friends
Kinds of family Advantages Disadvantages
A single parent
A nuclear family
An extended family
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2006
family
Nga & My Thanh

Study:
How can we express our agreement
and disagreement about somebody’s
ideas or opinions?
Some suggestions from students:
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

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.
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2006
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.
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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…
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

Practice:
Work in groups of three. With your partners,
choose one of the statement below and use the
aforementioned expressions to discuss it :
1. There are more and more single-parent families
nowadays.
2. Husbands and wives should share equal
housework.
3. Men are expected to support their families while
women can choose whether to work or not.
4. Mothers play a more important role in bringing up
children than fathers do.
5. The more children in a family the merrier.
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

Practice: Some words and phrases
Birth control
Women’s liberation
Generation gap
Loneliness
Burden
Household appliances
Household chores
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Work flextime
Standard of living
Tolerance
Earn money
“Bread-winner”
Maternal
Paternal
Share responsibility
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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.
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2006
Nga & My Thanh

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
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2006
?
Nga & My Thanh
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
?

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
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 _________
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever________
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2006
?
?
?
?
Nga & My Thanh
?
?

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY
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2006
WISH YOU ALL
HAPPINESS!
Nga & My Thanh

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