Lesson 6 what sort of person you are

Дата

Цілі: вдосконалювати лексичні навички й навички читання; вдосконалювати навички виконання тестових завдань; розвивати логічне мислення; вихову­вати толерантне ставлення до інших, а також загальну культуру учнів.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

1. What makes a person a good friend, a friend for life, a life mate?

2. What makes a person bad, traits that irritate and confuse you?

3. Are friends more important than family? What do you think?

2. Speaking

• Typical traits.

Typical positive and negative personal character traits with respect to a challenge in achieving a goal or performing a task. Fill in the chart with the following traits.

Courage Lazy Discouraged Conscientious Confident Hard working Un­sure Determined Careless Cowardice

	Attitude
Challenge	Positive trait	Negative trait
Danger
Importance
Difficulty
Abilities
Effort

Key:

	Attitude
Challenge	Positive trait	Negative trait
Danger	Courage	Cowardice
Importance	Conscientious	Careless
Difficulty	Determined	Discouraged
Abilities	Confident	Unsure
Effort	Hard working	Lazy

Express your attitude as for any of the challenges in the chart using should or shouldn’t.

You should be... to achieve...

You shouldn’t be... if you want to achieve/perform...

3. Writing

Do ex. 1, p. 12.

4. Reading

• Practise the vocabulary.

Do ex. 2, p. 12.

5. Speaking

• Practise the vocabulary.

Do ex. 3, p. 13.

6. Reading and speaking

Read three points of view on friendship and aspects of friendship. Then share your points of view and discuss your reactions.

Speaker 1. I think that friendship is a unique chemistry that happens between two people and a lot of people say they’ve got best friends, but I ac­tually wonder how many people actually do have a best friend in the real sense of the word. I have two best friends: one works in the theatre, and one is a sort of entrepreneur: and we see each other about three or four times a year. but I wouldn’t call that being a best friend, that is a close friend. I think my best friend, without getting too soppy, is my wife. she is my total best friend, I can discuss anything with her and she can pick up on feelings that I’ve got inside me whereas my two best chums can never do that unless I’m showing an expression on my face. Then they’ll say, ‘Oh, what’s the matter, Campbell?’, but my wife. I can walk into a room and she knows exactly what kind of mood I’m in and that is a best friend.

Speaker 2. I also feel that a best friend is really someone who can under­stand. I’ve kept in touch with four friends from schooldays and we don’t see each other very often. One of them or two I see perhaps once a year. But the thing about it is when we do see other it’s as if there’s been no time spent apart and we’re able just to slip into our relationship and a kind of feeling that we’ve always had. It’s like wearing a pair of shoes that you’ve had for a long time, it’s comfortable, it’s safe and it’s warm, and it’s easy.

Speaker 3. I mean I’ve had friends since childhood and we. we’re essen­tial to each other. We reflect each other’s journey through life and changes that we’ve gone through. I think there’s a difference with men and women. I think sometimes for some women friendship is easier, I think often friend­ship between men is difficult just because it does happen that men are less used to expressing their emotions. It’s much harder I think sometimes for men to confide their failures. I think a lot of the trust and the sort of in­timacy between women is to do with insecurities and all those things that you share. I’ve felt immensely privileged actually to have a number of very close friends and for me it’s in terms of human relationship I think I value it above everything.

7. Speaking

Do ex. 4, p. 13.

8. Summary

Do ex. 6, p. 15.

9. Homework

Ex. 5, p. 14.

LESSON 7 PARENTING

Дата

Цілі: вдосконалювати навички читання й усного мовлення; розвивати мовну здогадку й мовленнєву реакцію учнів; виховувати зацікавленість у розши­ренні своїх знань.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

1. What kinds of things do you do with your parents?

2. What kinds of things would you like to do with your parents?

3. About how many hours a week do you spend doing things with your

parents?

2. Reading

Read the text and express your opinion as for relations between parents and children.

PARENTS ARE THE BEST TEACHERS

We couldn’t agree more with the statement that parents are the best teachers. First, parents are the closest people to children. Second, they have more sufficient understanding on their children than anyone else. And finally, children can be taught by their parents as long as the parents are alive.

Most important of all, parents should be the closest (most intimate) peo­ple to their children. The relationship between parents and children is sup­posed to be irreplaceable and steady. Only parents can devote themselves to educate their children with heart and soul, regardless of time and money. They spend considerable money on their children’s education and health. They tell stories to their children before they sleep. They play games with their children with enthusiasm. Others cannot devote/dedicate so much at­tention to children, not to mention time, money and enthusiasm. So parents can direct children in most circumstances. In contrast, the other people, for instance, the school teachers, can only teach children in a given situation, such as at school or in class.

Moreover, parents understand their children more clearly than the other people; therefore, they can give the children specific guidance. Un­doubtedly, only based on their own well understanding can people give helpful advice. Anyone who lacks enough understanding will give useless, or even harmful, directions. By living together for a long period, parents know every aspect of their children. This ensures that their teachings are more helpful. Granted, the professional teachers can offer professional ad­vice, but this does not mean they can satisfy both processes and achieve re­sults. Some advice may be efficient but insufferable. Parents can take every aspect, such as time and efforts, into consideration to provide reasonable guidelines.

Finally, it could be a lifetime process for parents to teach their child­ren. From infancy to adulthood, parents share the lives with their children all the time. They have the opportunities to guide their children in every step, and they can be helpful in every situation they want. Seldom do school teachers guide a student more than six years.

Needless to say, no one can be better teachers than parents. Not only my statements above but also history has proved this point time and time again.

3. Reading, speaking and writing

• Work in pairs

Read the passage, discuss with your partner and write a list of qualities that good parents should own.

WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A GOOD PARENT?

Everyone has got lot of problems with his parents. Every generation keeps with the tradition of yelling at home. This is something that doesn’t change even if we are jealous when it seems like other people have the rela­tionship with his parents that we always wanted.

First of all something we like from anyone, and specially from a person who is close to you is to feel that person cares about you, about your in­terests. Parents tend to simply ask their children about their lives because they think, they have to, not because they are really interested.

Another thing that a parent should take care along the life with his child is to create a relationship with them. It is so usual to feel that your relationship ended with your parents some time ago and now you just live together and still depend economically from them. That just make you feel that you are a bit alone and you need that person at your side. When you still growing up and need some independence, some freedom, parents should un­derstand and be comprehensive of your needs, knowing when your freedom starts and being sure of the education they gave you.