Psycologist

План-конспект проведенного урока №1

Тема: «Family issues»

Класс

I. Warm up:

I won’t tell you about the things we’ll do today as I usually do, you’ll have to work the topic of our lesson yourselves after having watched a short episode from the film.

II. The film

So, how you would entitle the today’s topic?

Suggested answers: problems between the children and their parents, generation gap, family issues, family problems, ideal family, family values, how to bridge the “generation gap”

All of you have guessed the main points of the problem we’ll touch upon today. We’ll speak about family issues. So, we’ll work with the vocabulary on the topic, we’ll listen to two girls’ stories, discuss them, and then we’ll have a role play.

Our aim is to work out strategies of how to overcome the difficulties each member of any family can face, of how to reach a compromise with the people who are either older or younger than us, of how to make our relationships and, thus, our families if not ideal, then, at least, happy.

III. Revision of the vocabulary

First we’ll revise the words which you got acquainted with in the previous lesson. Please enter our experimental site in the Net, then go to Lesson 5 and open the file with Task 1. Study the list of family values. Then match them with their definitions.

Answers: 1 c, 2 e, 3 f, 4 b, 5 g, 6 a, 7 d.

Save your answers - I’ll check them after the lesson- exit from the file and now you’ll see whether your answers were correct or not. Look at the screen.

Now, please, work in two groups and try to reach an agreement on the following statements:

We only need a family for comfort and protection.

Trust is more important for a happy family than any other feature.

The first statement is for Group 1, the second – for Group 2.

Negotiate so that represents all the opinions of your group.

So, who will take the floor?

IV. Listening

Now I suggest you listening to two girls’ stories. Sasha and Kelly wrote a letter to the youth magazine “Shout” telling about their life at home. Each story is meant for one group: Sasha’s story is for Group 1, Kelly’s – for Group 2. But I have divided them into 5 paragraphs. It means that you all will listen to the different extracts. Your task after listening is to work in groups trying to restore the events of the whole story. Then one person of each group will give a short summary of the text.

Is the task clear? Then I’ll announce the number of the extract for each to listen to.

Please enter our experimental site (www.learning.9151394.ru) in the Net, then go to Lesson 5 and open the listening files with Sasha and Kelly’s stories. Start listening.

Now which of you will present the story?

Questions for Group 1

What is/are Sasha’s main problem(s)?

What resolution of her problems has Sasha chosen?

Questions for Group 2

What is/are Kelly’s main problem(s)?

What’s Kelly’s dream?

What problems do you have at home? How do you solve them?

Role play

Psycologist

Kelly

Sasha

Mother

Father

Elder brother –