FAMILY (from englishcurrent.com)
1) What is the best environment to raise a family in (e.g. apartment, village, etc)?
2) What was the worst thing you did as a child? Did you get caught?
3) Is there anything funny or different about your family?
4) Does someone in your family maintain a family tree? How far back can you trace your family history?
5) In your country, does the father function as the breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker?
Family vocabulary:
What is the appropriate English term for …
- your sister’s daughter?
- your sister’s son?
- your grandmother’s mother?
- your brothers and sisters?
- your wife’s brother?
- the son of your mother’s new husband?
Discussion Questions
1) Violence: Is it ever okay to hit a child? What is the custom or law in your country?
2) Due to population growth and environmental problems, should families have fewer kids?
3) What is the ideal number of children to have?
4) Is it better for a child to have one parent or two homosexual parents?
5) Is it tradition in your culture for women to adopt their husband’s last name? Is this fair?
6) In your country, are mothers allowed maternity leave (from work)? What about paternity leave for fathers?
7) What is a mid-life crisis? How can one be avoided?
8) When are children old enough to move out of the house?
Protective parents or helicopter parents
Helicopter parent: parent that hovers closely around his or her child, rarely letting the child out of his or her reach.
VOCABULARY:
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
EXPLANATION available at:
- englishclub.com and
- learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
PRACTICE available at agendaweb.org
GRAMMAR:
ZERO CONDITIONAL, CONDITIONALS WITH IMPERATIVES AND MODAL VERBS; IN CASE
Zero conditional explanation available at englishteachermelanie.com
IF & UNLESS; IF & IN CASE
A) If and unless
Unless means the same as if ... not.
It always refers to the conditional part of the sentence and not the result part of the sentence:
- If he doesn't get here soon, we will have to start the meeting without him.
- Unless he gets here soon, we will have to start the meeting without him.
We often use not + unless, which means only ... if, when we want to emphasize a condition:
- They will only sign the contract if we give them an additional discount.
- They won't sign the contract unless we give them an additional discount.
B) If and in case
We use in case to talk about precautions we will take before a problem happens. We use if to talk about what we will do after a problem happens:
- We are going to insure the shipment in case the goods get damaged in transit.
(We will take our insurance first; the problem may or may not happen afterward.)
- If the goods get damaged in transit, we'll make a claim.
(The damage may happen, and we will make a claim afterward.)
Note that in a sentence with in case, we often use going to rather than will because we are often talking about something that we have already decided to do.
1) What is the best environment to raise a family in (e.g. apartment, village, etc)?
2) What was the worst thing you did as a child? Did you get caught?
3) Is there anything funny or different about your family?
4) Does someone in your family maintain a family tree? How far back can you trace your family history?
5) In your country, does the father function as the breadwinner and the mother as the homemaker?
Family vocabulary:
What is the appropriate English term for …
- your sister’s daughter?
- your sister’s son?
- your grandmother’s mother?
- your brothers and sisters?
- your wife’s brother?
- the son of your mother’s new husband?
Discussion Questions
1) Violence: Is it ever okay to hit a child? What is the custom or law in your country?
2) Due to population growth and environmental problems, should families have fewer kids?
3) What is the ideal number of children to have?
4) Is it better for a child to have one parent or two homosexual parents?
5) Is it tradition in your culture for women to adopt their husband’s last name? Is this fair?
6) In your country, are mothers allowed maternity leave (from work)? What about paternity leave for fathers?
7) What is a mid-life crisis? How can one be avoided?
8) When are children old enough to move out of the house?
Protective parents or helicopter parents
Helicopter parent: parent that hovers closely around his or her child, rarely letting the child out of his or her reach.
VOCABULARY:
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
EXPLANATION available at:
- englishclub.com and
- learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
PRACTICE available at agendaweb.org
GRAMMAR:
ZERO CONDITIONAL, CONDITIONALS WITH IMPERATIVES AND MODAL VERBS; IN CASE
Zero conditional explanation available at englishteachermelanie.com
IF & UNLESS; IF & IN CASE
A) If and unless
Unless means the same as if ... not.
It always refers to the conditional part of the sentence and not the result part of the sentence:
- If he doesn't get here soon, we will have to start the meeting without him.
- Unless he gets here soon, we will have to start the meeting without him.
We often use not + unless, which means only ... if, when we want to emphasize a condition:
- They will only sign the contract if we give them an additional discount.
- They won't sign the contract unless we give them an additional discount.
B) If and in case
We use in case to talk about precautions we will take before a problem happens. We use if to talk about what we will do after a problem happens:
- We are going to insure the shipment in case the goods get damaged in transit.
(We will take our insurance first; the problem may or may not happen afterward.)
- If the goods get damaged in transit, we'll make a claim.
(The damage may happen, and we will make a claim afterward.)
Note that in a sentence with in case, we often use going to rather than will because we are often talking about something that we have already decided to do.
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