Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 Unit 1: Home life

Bài giảng English 12
Unit 1:

HOME LIFE


Content:
Guiding questions
Lead in
Activate
Study
Practice
Post-speaking


Lead in:Look at these picture
below and then answer the
questions:

What are the differences between the two pictures in terms of
Number of people present
Number of generations
Who they are.


Lead in:
Extended family

Nuclear family

Lead in:
Patterns of family have diversified
considerably. Nowadays we have:
Extended family
Nuclear family
Single parent family
Childless family
Others


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 inlaws.


Lead in:
Single parent family:
only one parent and
children

Childless family:
couples living
together without any
child

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?


Activate: Work in pairs to fill in the
chart
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Privacy is disturbed.
Responsibility of supporting family is not shared.
Grandparents, their children and grandparents live happily.
Housework is not much.
Responsibility can be shared, housework is more easy.
Parents have condition to care for their children.

Kinds of family
A single parent family
A nuclear family
An extended family

Advantages

Disadvantages


Activate:
Here are some suggestions from your friends
Kinds of family

A single parent
family
A nuclear family
An extended family

Advantages

Disadvantages


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


Study: Some useful phrases:
Agreement:

Disagreement:

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.

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.


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:
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–
–
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I think…

If you ask me…
The point is…
In my opinion…
You know what I think, I think that…


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.


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


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.


Post-speaking: Listen to the song and fill in the
blanks
child
high
stairs
chance

disagree
comfort

gone

Back when I was a _____ ? , before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me _____ ? and dance with my mother and me
and 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
glance

door

praying
only
dying
dream

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
To dance with my father again
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 _________ ?
To dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep and this is all I ever________ ?