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Unit2 Reading
Lead-in
What happened in this family?
Why did it happen?
How do we deal with it?
Pre-reading
teenager
parent
child
quarrel
The tense parent-child
relationships
Global reading
Read the article and complete the chart below.
Introduction
It is common for teenagers to have difficult relationships with their parents.
Cause 1
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Cause 2
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Teenagers’ physical growth may result in such family tensions.
Teenagers’ developing mental needs can also influence parent-child relationships.
Solution
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Teenagers should have regular and honest communication with their parents.
Conclusion
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Everything will turn out all right in the end.
Careful reading
Q2: What are common in teenage-parents relationship?
Heated arguments and cold silences.
Q1: What may happen between parents and children?
Our dinner with our parents turn into a battle.
Warm and open conversations become cold and guarded.
We cannot see eye to eye with our parents on anything.
Read Para.1 and answer two questions
Careful reading
Read Para.2 and answer two questions
Q1: What physical changes might teenagers worry about?
Q2: How do teenagers feel about these problems?
Physical
Changes
height
weight
changing voice
spots
Feelings
anxious
worried
angry
Cause 1
Careful reading
Read Para.3 and answer two questions
Q1: What does the“middle ground” mean?
Q2: What are the mental needs?
Cause 2
Mental
Needs
childhood
adulthood
midddle ground
a continued need for love and support
being treated like a child
a new desire for independence
hoping to be acted like an adult
adolescent
Careful reading
Read Para.4 and answer three questions
Q1: What’s the solution to the parent-child tensions in this passage?
The key to keeping the peace is regular and honest communication.
Q2: What can you do when you disagree with your parents?
listen carefully and address their concerns
explain your actions and feelings calmly
take a minute to calm down and try to understand
Q3: Do you agree with the author? Did you have the same experience and you how to deal with these problems? Give more solutions.
Careful reading
Read Para.5 and answer two questions
What’s the author’s attitude to parent-child tensions?
(Try to use an adjective to summarize)
A.negative B. positive C. neutral
Role-play
The father
The mother
The girl
Director
Role-play in groups and continue the plots
(It should include the solution to the conflict in that video)
self-assessment
solution(s)
action
emotion
fluency
accuracy
Note: Assess your performance from the five levels:
5 = Excellent
4 = Good
3 = Satisfactory
2 = Fair
1 = Improvement required
Discussion
Discuss with your partner about your experience and give advice to each other
I don’t know what “home” is, but unhappiness and worries
melt away once there. ——Bing Xin
“家”是什么,我不知道;但烦闷忧愁,都在此中融化消灭。
Conclusion
Must to do:
Write down your experience and the solutions to these problems. (within 60 words)
Choose to do:
Try to find some websites about the growth of teenagers, look through the posts and try to give them some advice.
Homework
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