Unit 3:
COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE
COMMUNICATION
What it means to be independent
Discuss the extract and prepare a short talk expressing your group’s opinion about it.
1.What kind of person does the father want his son to grow up to be?
2.What does the father mean by saying: You got a dream, you gotta to protect it. And you want something, go get it? Do you agree with him? Why/ Why not?
3.What’s your dream? How do you protect it and make sure it will come true one day?
CULTURE
Ways of raising children
1.Read the two passages and answer the questions.
1.It is to teach their children to live independently.
2.Their role is to protect their children and to provide them with a happy and wealthy childhood.
3. They make them do things such as washing, cleaning and cooking for themselves from the time they are very small.
4.No. Vietnamese parents seldom ask for their children’s opinions before making family choices.
5. They show respect for them and let them voice their opinions on family issues .
6. After they get married.
2.Make some comparisons between the two ways of child raising using while, whereas, different from.
Examples:
While most Vietnamese children sleep with their parents until they go to primary school, most American children get their own rooms from an early age.