Lesson 1-2 What makes a family?
Textbook “New millenium English” 10
Unit 5 Family issues
Warm - up
- Look at these photoes and discuss the questions:
- Are the people in the left photo a family or friends dining together?
- Why do you think so?
- Who might the other two people be?
Reading
- Guess the meaning of the words and phrases in the box following the steps below.
- Look at the words and say what their parts mean.
- What do you think the word means? Give your answer or say “no answer”.
- In the text below, find the contexts the words are used in, and check your answers.
- Find the context for “run” and answer the question on the right of the text.
- Household
- Background
- In –law
- Childcare
- Extended family
Glossary
- Cosy – уютный
- Mentally handicapped- having a problem with their brain that affects their ability or control their body movements, possibly from birth
- Advantages – преимущества
- Fishmonger – someone who sells fish.
Listening
- Listen to what the people mentioned in the article say .
- Put the number of the speaker next to his\her photo.
2. Read the sentenses with the gaps. Discuss with your partner what words are or might be missing.
- We (1)... about what’s happening, who’s doing what, it’s lovely to have the family round you and (2)... ... to your brothers and your parents. You fill (3)... .
- The children are (4)... every night: I know where they are.
- When I tell people I live with my (5)..., they say “Argh!” But it’s just like living with my own parents.
- It works both ways: the children don’t pay rent but if the grass (6)... ... or something needs doing, one of my sons will do it.
- The old-style (7)... family could be very restrictive. The essential difference will be that in the future, living this way will have been(8)... ... .
Vocabulary
- Feeling that someone is important, so that you are interested in them, worried about them, ets.
- Having the same opnion, felling, experience ets. As someone else.
- An attitude of regarding someone as important so that you are careful not to harm them, treat them rudely, ets.
- State of being protected from thr bad things that could happen to you
- Felling of beeing more calm, cheerfull, or hopeful after you have been worried or unhappy
- The state of beeing free from public attention
- A strong belief in the honesty, goodness ets. of someone or something
- caring
- sharing
- respect
- security
- comfort
- privacy
- trust
- What family values or their absence do they describe?
a)A family has things together... like
dreams and hopes and prossessions
and memories and smiles...
b) It is a shelter from the storm ...
a friendly port when the waves of
life become too wild.
c) With so many people in one
house you don’t have a chance
to be alone, unseen, or unheard.
d) Whatever I say my family
will take my word against
anybody else’s ...
f) We talk about what’s happening,
who’s doing what, it’s lovely
to have the family round you
and to know they are interested
in you .
e) A family is a place where love and
faith dwell... a place where all
members can enjoy the dignity
of their own personalities.
Language support
- Yes, that’s right.
- I thinkso, too.
- Exactly.
- It’s true.
2. Disagreement
- I don’t agree.
- I don’t think so.
- You can’t say that.
- That’s not the point.