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Technology in Language teachingInstructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu – Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
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Unit 1:
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Content:
Guiding questionsLead inActivateStudyPracticePost-speaking
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Guiding questions:
1. How do families affect individuals or their members?
2. How does each member contribute to his or her family?
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh 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 ofNumber of people presentNumber of generationsWho they are.
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Lead in:
Extended family
Nuclear family
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Lead in:
Patterns of family have diversified considerably. Nowadays we have:
Extended familyNuclear familySingle parent familyChildless familyOthers
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh 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.
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Lead in:
Single parent family: only one parent and children
Childless family: couples living together without any child
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
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?
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh 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
happily.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
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Activate:
Kinds of family Advantages Disadvantages
A single parent family
A nuclear family
An extended family
Here are some suggestions from your friends
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Study:
How can we express our agreement and disagreement about somebody’s ideas or opinions?
Some suggestions from students:
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh 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.
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.
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
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…
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh 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.
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
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
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
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.
18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Post-speaking: Listen to the song and fill in the blanks
Back when I was a _____ , before life removed all the innocenceMy father would lift me _____ and dance with my mother and me and
thenSpin me around 'til I fell asleepThen up the ______ he would carry meAnd I knew for sure I was lovedIf I could get another ________ , another walk, another dance with himI'd play a song that would never, ever endHow I'd love, love, loveTo dance with my father againWhen I and my mother would _________To get my way, I would run from her to himHe'd make me laugh just to ________ meThen finally make me do just what my mama saidLater that night when I was asleepHe left a dollar under my sheetNever dreamed that he would be _______ from me
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18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
Post-speaking: Listen to the song and fill in the blanks
If I could steal one final______ , one final step, one final dance with himI'd play a song that would never, ever end'Cause I'd love, love, loveTo dance with my father againSometimes I'd listen outside her _______And I'd hear how my mother cried for himI pray for her even more than meI pray for her even more than meI know I'm _______ for much too much
But could you send back the _____ man she lovedI know you don't do it usuallyBut dear Lord she's _________To dance with my father againEvery night I fall asleep and this is all I ever________
dying
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18th Dec 2006Technology in Language Teaching
Instructor: Nguyen Ngoc Vu - Students: Thanh Nga & My Thanh
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY
WISH YOU ALL HAPPINESS!