Unit

8

Uni
t

BECOMING
FAMILYINDEPENDENT
LIFE

LESSON I

GETTING STARTED

Earning your parents' trust

LESSON I

WARM-UP

Categorizing game

PRESENTATION

Vocabulary
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PRACTICE

PRODUCTION

CONSOLIDATION

GETTING STARTED

Task 1: Listen and read.
Task 2: Decide who has the skills.
Task 3: Find words or a phrase.
Task 4: Match the two halves to make
sentences.

Role-play
• Wrap-up
• Homework

CATEGORIZING
GAME

- Work in 4 groups.
- Each group is given pieces of paper about
dependent and independent lifestyles.
- Classify them to correct columns.
- The first team to complete the task correctly is
the winner.
- Go to the board and show the answers.

Independent
lifestyle

+ Cook for yourself
+ Have good time management
+ Know how to keep house
+ Keep your body clean
+ Think twice before deciding
+ Get enough good sleep

Dependent lifestyle
+ Keep asking parents for money
+ Wait for parents to cook
+ Not do your homework
+ Need mother to drop you off at
school
+ Communicate badly with
people
+ Eat instant noodles all the time

PRESENTATION

independent (adj)
/ˌɪndɪˈpendənt/
confident and free to do
things without needing help
from other people

PRESENTATION

trust (n)
/trʌst/
the belief that sb/sth is
good, sincere, honest, etc.

PRESENTATION

convince (v)
/kənˈvɪns/

to make someone feel
certain that something is true

PRESENTATION

responsible (adj)
/rɪˈspɔnsɪbəl/

having the job or duty of
doing sth or taking care of
sb/sth

PRESENTATION

encourage (v)
/ɪnˈkʌr.ɪdʒ/

to give sb support, courage or
hope

Form
independent
(adj)
trust
(n)
convince (v)
responsible
(adj)
encourage (v)

Pronunciation

Meaning

/ˌɪndɪˈpendənt/ confident and free to do things
without needing help
/trʌst/
/kənˈvɪns/

the belief that sb/sth is good, sincere,
honest, etc.
to make someone feel certain that
something is true

/rɪˈspɔnsɪbəl/ having the job or duty of doing sth or
taking care of sb/sth
/ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ/

to give sb support, courage or hope

PRESENTATION

1 Listen and read.

PRACTICE

2 Read the conversation again and decide who has these skills. Put a
tick () in the correct column.






PRACTICE

3

Find words and a phrase in 1 that have the following meanings.

confidence
independent
responsibilities
money-management

PRACTICE

4 Match the two halves to make sentences used in 1.
1.It's my mum

a.that took a long time

2. It was earning my parents' b. who still think I don't have
trust
the skills to be independent.
3. It's my parents

c. that taught me how to be
responsible with money.

4. It's the app

d. who is calling me again.

1. d

2. a

3. b

4. c

PRODUCTION

Role-play
- Ss work in groups of 4.
- In each group, one student plays the
role of a student. Others are advisors.
Advisors are giving advice on how to live
independently.
- 3 minutes to prepare for the role-play.
- 2 minutes for a performance.

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up
What have you learnt today?
• Some lexical items about becoming independent
• Reading for specific information
• Cleft sentence with “it is/was … who/ that…”

CONSOLIDATION

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

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