Family and Families Lesson Plan

Learning objectives: To scan the text and give
short answers
Skill: Reading/Grammar: ’would like’ and ‘like’
Preparation Time: 5–10 minutes
Completion Time: 60 minutes
Age/Level: Adults/Low–High beginners
Resources: Family Vocabulary Warm-Up
Family and Families Worksheet
Life and Children Survey
Family fortune (Game)
A4 blank sheets and a marker, Post-it notes

Warm-Up
• Jumble the letters in the word family. Put a different letter on six separate Post-it Notes.
Put these on the board. Ask students to use all the letters to make a word. Elicit family and tell
students this is what they are going to read about.
• See (Family Vocabulary Warm-Up) for further words and how to set up the pair work
activity.
• Also use jumbled letters for the following words: writer, beautiful, fantastic.

Presentation (extensive reading)

• Tell students they are going to read a text (Family and Families Worksheet).
• Hand out the Worksheet folded under the reading text.
• Give the students 2 minutes to find the answer to the question: Is the writer a man or a
woman?
Answer Key: a woman (‘… my husband’s parents live in Canada.’)
The aim of the next reading task is to elicit short answers.
• Tell students to unfold the photocopied page and read the two short-answer examples.
• Students do the exercise individually and then check in pairs.
• In open class, ask a student question 1 and elicit the answer. That student reads the
next question and nominates another student to answer it. Continue, making sure the question is
asked before a student is nominated.
Answer Key: 1 (in) Rome 2 (in) Montreal (Canada)
3 (in) Rio (Brazil) and the other in Rome
4 (in) Montreal 5 to Paris; to study European history
6 in Rome, last year 7 No they haven’t; No, they don’t.
8 two (a son and a daughter)

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Practice
• Write the following two questions, each with one word blanked, on the board:
________ you like big families? __________ you like to have children?
• Do you like … ? is a general question and Would you like … ? is a specific question
about now or the future.
• Give out copies of Life and Children Survey.

• Students read the question-formation examples and do the exercise.

Answer Key: 1 Where do they live?
2 Have you got (any) children? Would you like to have
children? How many would you like to have?
3 Where would you like to live in 10 years’ time and why?

• Tell students to stand up with paper and pencil. Ask and answer the questions in pairs.
• As conversation runs out change partners. (Repetition builds confidence.)
• Do the same with a third or even fourth partner if time permits.
• Tell students to sit down and ask them to tell you one or two things about another
student.

Closure
• Tell students they are going to play a game.
• Give one A4 sheet to each pair.
• Follow the instructions in Family Fortune Game.

• Toss a coin and also check the meaning of heads and tails, and counter.
• Monitor the pairs.
• In open class ask some questions related to the board game to round off the lesson.

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