Patterns of family life

Unit objectives:

“All happy families resemble one another:

every unhappy family is its own fashion.”

(Leo Tolstoy)

Lead-in

Ø What is a family? What associations do you have?

Ø Paraphrase the quotation by Leo Tolstoy. Do you agree with it? Discuss, give reasons.

Ø What is an ideal family as you see it?

Ø Do you agree that the word family stands for

Ø F—Forget
A—About
M—Me
I—-I
L—Love
Y-You

(http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/how-do-you-define-family/#comment-145036)

Ø

Vocabulary

1. Families are divided into several types. Match the pictures with 1-3 with the phrases in the box:

a)nuclear family b) extended family c) single-parent family

1)	2)
3)

Listening and reading (from Upload 3, Student’s Book by Virginia Evans & Jenny Dooley)

5. Listen to the dialogue. What is about?

Sue:	Hi, Jane! What are you doing?
Jane:	Hi, Sue. I’m looking through this album of old family photos my mum just sent me. Some of them really bring back memories.
Sue:	That’s interesting! Can I have a look?
Jane:	Of course. Let’s see if you can recognize me in this photo! My mum took it when I was about eight, I think. Now, which one is me?
Sue:	I think, this is you, in the middle. Is that your gradma behind you?
Jane:	You ‘re right and that’s my granddad, standing behind her. My parents are on the left. The girl in front of my mum is my sister, Lisa. The ones on the right are my mum’s twin sister,her husband and my cousin, Billy. He’s so funny. We all lived in the small town.
Sue:	Well, you all look happy. Anyway, I’ll look at the rest later. I have a lecture now.
Jane:	Okay, see you.

Read the dialogue and decide whether the statements are T(true) oe F(false).

		T	F
	Jane is looking at some photographs.
	The photo shows Jane as a child.
	Jane ha two sisters.
	Jane’s mum has a brother.
	Sue lived on a farm as a child
	Jane is going to a lecture

Reading

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