Lesson 2 – Family Values

Warm Up

1. Ask the students what they know about Family values. Ask what it means. If nobody knows, give a couple of examples of family values from the students’ own culture, or, with multilingual classes of the host culture. Elicit or explain that family values are about the rights, responsibilities, and duties of family members.
2. Tell students they are going to look at some Western family values.
3. Ask them to create groups consisting of 4 people. Tell them to work together to match explanations a – j with sentences 1-10. They should help each other with anything they do not understand and also ask the students if they need help or have questions.
   
4. Check their answers.
   Answer key
   1. i
   2. g
   3. b
   4. d
   5. f
   6. c
   7. e
   8. j
   9. h
   10. a

Main Activity

1. Ask the students to discuss the ten sentences with their partners in the group of four, and choose four sentences which they wish either to defend or to attack; they can attack some and defend others.
2. Ask them to cooperate to discuss the sentences and prepare a list of points that support their opinion for each of their chosen sentences. Tell them not to write sentences, only very short notes.
3. Split each group into two pairs, and each pair take two of the sentences. Ask them to talk with their partner about how they can present their views to the class. They must not write sentences to read aloud, but they should think of useful phrases, expressions, and structures to use and add these to their notes.
4. Tell each person to present one of the choices to the class, who ask questions and make comments after each presentation.

Follow Up

• Students work alone to put the sentences in order, from the one they agree with most to the one they agree with least. They should write the numbers of the sentences in a list, with the one they agree with most at the top. It is all right for them to agree with all the sentences or disagree with them, but they must rank them in order of agreement/disagreement.
• Ask them to compare their ranking with their partner’s and explain their reasons and their opinions. They can change their mind if they wish and change their ranking of sentences.
• Ask which sentences they disagreed with each other about most and why.
• Ask which of their partner’s opinions or comments they found the most interesting or surprising
• Tell them to watch this video. Ask them to analyse and make a summary of that video.