Unit

2

Uni
t

The generation
FAMILY LIFEgap

LESSON 7

COMMUNICATION AND
CULTURE / CLIL

LESSON 7

COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE / CLIL

WARM-UP

Game: Hidden picture

COMMUNICATION

• Task 1: Listen and complete the conversation .
• Task 2: Make similar conversation for the situations.
• Task 1: Read the text and complete the comparison
table.
• Task 2: Work in groups. Discuss the following questions.

CULTURE

EXTRA ACTIVITY

CONSOLIDATION

Talk about the differences among Asian American children
and Asian American parents.
• Wrap-up
• Homework

WARM-UP

HIDDEN PICTURE
GAME
 Work in 4 groups.
 Look at the hints.
 Guess the names of the
mass media forms in the
pictures.

Viet Nam

Thailand

America

Mexico

EVERYDAY
ENGLISH
Listen and complete the conversation with the expressions in the box. Then

1 practise it in pairs.
A. Is it OK

B. I'm afraid not

C. Certainly

D. can I

Lan: Mum, (1) _________
D go to my friend's birthday party this Saturday
evening?
Lan's mother: (2) _________.
Whose birthday is it?
C
Lan: It's Mai's birthday, Mum. (3) _________
if I stay the night at her
A
house after the party?
Lan's mother: Oh, (4) _________.
You must come back home before 10
B
p.m. We're going to visit your grandparents early on Sunday morning.
Lan: OK, Mum. I'll be home before 10 p.m. then.

EVERYDAY ENGLISH
Useful expressions

Asking for permission
• (Please) Can I ...?
• Do you mind if I (go) ...?
• Would you mind if I
(went) ...?
• Is it OK if I (go) ...?

Giving permission:
• Sure.
• Of course you can.
• No problem.
• Please feel free to ...
Refusing permission:
• I'm afraid not.
• No, please don't.
• I'm afraid you can't.
• I'm sorry, but that's not possible.

EVERYDAY
ENGLISH

2

Work in pairs. Make similar conversation for these situations

Student A is a teenager;
Student B is his/her parent.
Student A is asking for
permission to invite friends to
a party. Student B can decide
to give permission or not.

Student B is a teenager;
Student A is his/her parent.
Student B is asking for
permission to colour his/her
hair. Student A can decide to
give permission or not.

CULTURE

1

Read the text and complete the notes. Use no more than TWO
words for each gap.

Asian American children
• Adapt to American culture faster
English
• Speak (1) ____________
as their
first language
• Accept American values:
individualism, freedom, honesty,
and competition
• Start to follow (2)
American traditions in their daily
_________________
lives

FIRST-GENERATION
Asian American parents

• Fail to adapt to American culture
native language
• Use their (3) ________
• Practise a traditional lifestyle and
their old culture
• Try to force children to follow
native country's (4)
cultural values importance of
______________:
family, respect for the elders and
community

CULTURE

2 Work in groups. Discuss the following questions.
Do you think your family would experience the same
generation gap if you moved to a Western country?
Why/Why not?

EXTRA ACTIVITY
Talk about the differences among Asian American children
and Asian American parents.
Diseases
caused
by viruses:
Asian
American
children
 AIDS
• Adapt to American culture faster
Common
coldfirst
• Speak English
as their
language Ebola
Genital herpes
• Accept American
values:
 Influenza
individualism,
freedom, honesty,
 Measles
and competition
• Start to
American
 follow
Chickenpox
and shingles
traditions
their daily disease
lives 2019
 in
Coronavirus

Diseases FIRST-GENERATION
caused by bacteria
Asian American parents
 Tuberculosis
Fail to adapt to American culture
• Pneumonia
Use their native language
• Cholera
• Practise a traditional lifestyle and
their old culture
• Try to force children to follow
native country's cultural values:
importance of family, respect for
the elders and community

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up
What have you learnt today?
• The generation gap in Asian American families
• Review expressions for asking for and giving permission

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
• Do exercises in the workbook.
• Prepare for Lesson 8 - Unit 2.

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