Beyond theTextencouragesstudentstothink about their own emotions and reactions to certain situations. You might want to revise some of the adjectives before doing this task.
Guided Writing
Writing a letter of congratulations.
What is the best age to have children?
When should children leave home?
Who should look after grandparents in old age?
Reading
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This section starts withlooking at written versions of spoken language. This can useful for students, especially to listen to features of a monologue to emphasise things such as stress.
Readingfor doing
Studentsread two texts on contrasting parenting styles.
Studentsdiscuss and write about their own family.
This section should take less time thanthe text inReadingfor learningas the textisshorter.Here this allows for personalisation of parenting styles and comments students might post about their parents to friends.
Doing chores and earning money
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Readingfor learning
The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives
Readingfor Doing
Lucy’s Blog and Jim’s Blog
Guided Writing
InVocabulary Focus, the first vocabulary task, along with the cultural notes, could be used as the basis for a discussion on the topic of marriages around the world.
The grammar focus looks at thepresent perfect.
Beyond theText
Studentscompare wedding costs and think about the important things for themselves.
InReading and Understanding,Task2looks at genre followed by a task on stress.Rather than asking students to mark the whole text for stress in one go, break the task down into short sections to check as you go. Task3focuses on comprehension of the details of the text.
Depending on the time you have available,youcould extend this task by asking students to discuss some other statements related to families.
For example,
Vocabulary andGrammar
Students look attopic related vocabulary from the reading text.They also practise using functional words, including many adverbs. Finally, they look at some verb and preposition collocations from the text.
A Letter of Congratulations
Audio/Video Lab
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This sectionintroducesthe idea of different family structures and allows students to discuss their preferences.
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课程名称捷进英语综合教程1
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教材《捷进英语综合教程1教师用书》
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Unit7The Perfect Famlily?
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A father’s speech at his daughter’s wedding
Different parenting styles
TheGrammarFocuspartlooks atpresent perfect.With stronger groups you could use the second task as a model for students to produce a short dialogue on a context in this course,e.g. travel.