ESL/EFL Level: Advanced (C1/C2)
Lesson Topic: Changes in family structures and marriage as an institution
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: family-lesson-plan-advanced-022023.docx
Lesson Overview:
Lesson Topic: Changes in family structures and marriage as an institution
Skill Focus: Speaking, Reading, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: family-lesson-plan-advanced-022023.docx
Lesson Overview:
- The reading passage discusses changes in the traditional (nuclear) family structure, summarizes some social trends related to marriage and childbirth in the U.S. and globally, and mentions some reproductive technology.
- The lesson also includes a focus on the names of different relatives, a list of family-related scenarios for discussion, two role-plays, a debate on arranged marriage, and a 'family meeting' speaking activity.
- All lessons come with warm-up questions, comprehension questions, a vocabulary section, and discussion questions.
Note to Teachers:
- The lesson contains a family meeting speaking. If you'd prefer an activity that focuses on the active causative (grammar), use this activity.
ADVANCED (C1/C2) Family ESL Lesson Plan
Warm-up Questions (Pair Work)
- What is the best environment to raise a family in (e.g. apartment, village, etc)?
- What was the worst thing you did as a child? Did you get caught?
- Is there anything funny or different about your family?
- Does someone in your family maintain a family tree? How far back can you trace your family history?
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Page 2 answers: niece, nephew, great-grandmother, siblings, brother in law, stepbrother
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Follow-up Question Answers
- A nuclear family is a family with a father, mother, and children.
- The contradiction is between data that suggests marriage for love reduces the likelihood of divorce and data from India showing that non-love marriages have very low divorce rates.
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- A boomerang child is one who returns home to live with his parents in adulthood.
- The low fertility rate is related.
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Vocabulary Answers: 1-f, 2-b, 3-j, 4-i, 5-L, 6-a, 7-e, 8-h, 9-c, 10-k, 11-g, 12-d
Page 2 answers: niece, nephew, great-grandmother, siblings, brother-in-law, stepbrother
End notes:
- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family
- [2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/30/couples-who-marry-family-pressure-50-per-cent-likely-divorce/
- [3] https://www.brides.com/story/modern-arranged-marriages
- [4] https://www.childtrends.org/publications/dramatic-increase-in-percentage-of-births-outside-marriage-among-whites-hispanics-and-women-with-higher-education-levels
- [5] https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/hide-and-seek/201708/what-future-the-family
- [6] https://www.un.org/development/desa/family/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2020/06/Mega-trends-and-families.Trask_.pdf
- [7] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/31/family-2050-artificial-wombs-robot-carers-single-fathers