Listening and vocabulary: Childhood and upbringing
Intermediate - Unit 2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide listening practice using a text about Childhood and upbringing in the context of past tense and what they and their parents used to/would do
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification on vocabulary associated with parental behaviour and reactions to behaviour (e.g. punished, ashamed, encouraged, criticised, confidence, praised, respect, got angry)
Procedure (38-47 minutes)
I will discuss briedly about who I am and what my childhood was like and introduce the listening exercise of two people discussing their childhood as a way to get to know each other better. One person in the conversation is from a Korean family and the other person is half-Spanish and half-British.
Question: How do parents get their children to do things? They set rules What is permitted? What is not permitted? What is insisted on/must you do? Write on white board - checkmark, not allowed symbol and exclamation point. Ask students for examples of rules parents could make Possible difficulty - Students don't understand vocabulary or permission or are unable to give examples
Play the audio recording and ask students to identify what Rafael and Mi-Sun's parents permitted, didn't permit and insisted on. Play audio 1-2 times - 2-5 min Students will listen to recording and try to answer independently S - 2 min to review Put students into groups of two to compare answers S -S 3 - 5 minutes Check answers with students - T-SSS 2 -3 min
Students will complete task 4 and identify who says what things in the recording. Play the audio recording a third time for deeper specific meaning - 2 min In groups or two or three have students discuss if Mi-Sun or Rafael said each line S-S - 5 - 7 min Correct with class - Student will read sentence and identify the speaker T-SSS 3 - 5 min
Students will discuss in pairs - was your upbringing more like Mi-Sun or Rafael? In what ways? Will you bring up your children or are you bringing up your children the same way? What would you do differently? S-S - 3-5 min Potential problem - student does not want to discuss traumatic childhood. Encourage student to speak in general terms and not about specific pain caused. If time permits or additional exercise - have student explain to the class how their partner's childhood was like and how their parents used to treat them. 4-5 min