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O B J E C T I V E S : D E S C R I B E F A M I L Y T R E N D S
UNIT 8: FAMILY TRENDS
INTRODUCTION
• What is generation Gap:
• It’s the difference in opinions and behaviors between
people of different generations.
• For example, each generation in the family might have
conflicting views on:
• Fashion
• Music
• Movies
• Morals
Summit 1: Page 86
SOUND BITES
• Read the conversation between Teresa and Bettina
talking about Sam and Bettina’s relationship and
answer the following questions:
• What happened to Sam and Margaret?
• What’s the problem in Bettina's family?
• What has Bettina done to try to solve the problem?
• What does Teresa think about this?
Summit 1: Page 87
EXPRESSIONS FROM CONVERSATION
END A RELATIONSHIP • We split up
• We had a falling out
• Things didn’t work out
START A RELATIONSHIP • We got back together
• My girlfriend and I are trying to
patch things up
• In the end, things didn’t workout
GOOD BEHAVIOR • My son is well-behaved
• I sent the children to a summer
camp to see if they shape up
BAD BEHAVIOR • Michael is such a troublemaker
• Ever since my son turned 11 he
started to act up.
• My daughter never talks back to
her teachers.
Summit 1: Page 88
EXPRESSIONS FROM CONVERSATION
• Write down a sentence for each of the following expressions used in the conversation about relationships:
• Get Back together (positive for the relationship)
• Patch things up (+)
• Split up (Negative for the relationship)
• To have a falling out (-)
• To work out things out (+)
• To act up (-)
• To talk back (-)
• To be a troublemaker (-)
• To shape up (+)
• To be well behaved (+)
Summit 1: Page 88
GRAMMAR SNAPSHOT
• Read an excerpt of this article and notice the use of Repeated Comparatives and Double Comparatives:
• “Current trends show the size of families is changing, impacting societies worldwide. Women are marrying later, and couples are waiting longer to have children. And the longer couples wait to have children, the fewer children they have.”
• In addition to the falling birthrate, there is a rising life expectancy. With people living longer and longer, families are going to have to face the challenges posed by an aging population.”
Summit 1: Pages 88-89
DOUBLE COMPARATIVES
• Double comparatives are used to describe a
cause-and-effect process, for example:
• The more something causes a situation, the better the
effect is.
• The higher the price of the food (cause),the fewer the
people buy (effect).
• Note: When be is used in double comparatives, it is sometimes
omitted:
• The better the quality of health care (is), the highest the life
expectancy (is).
Summit 1: Page 88-89
REPEATED COMPARATIVES
• Repeated comparatives are used to describe
actions and things that are increasing and
decreasing:
• The birthrate is getting lower and lower.
• More and more people are marrying later.
• Note: Repeated comparatives and double comparatives use
adjectives and adverbs depending on the type of word that is
being modified:
• The more women work (adverb), the fewer children (adjective)
they have.
Summit 1: Page 88-89
VOCABULARY: PARENT AND TEEN BEHAVIOR
PARENTS
• Strict: parents set a lot of restrictions.
• Lenient: Parents let their kids do anything they want.
• Overprotective: Parents worry too much about their kids.
• Rebellious
TEENS
• Rebellious: Teenagers refuse to follow rules.
• Spoiled: Teenagers expect to have or do whatever they want.
• Disrespectful: Teenagers are rude to adults and think what adults say is not important.
Summit 1: Page 90-91
TRANSFORMING VERBS / ADJECTIVES INTO NOUNS
Most of words don’t follow rules for their formation as nouns, but we can see different groups to better remember:
From Verbs
• Expect → Expectation
• Explain → Explanation
• Develop → Development
• Involve → Involvement
• Courteous → Courtesy
• Difficult → Difficulty
• Responsible → Responsibility
• Reliable → Reliability
From Adjectives
• Fair → Fairness
• Strict → Strictness
• Generous → Generosity
• Mature → Maturity
• Important → Importance
• Independent → Independence
• Lenient → Lenience
Summit 1: Page 92-93
READING: UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Read the article on your book and match the answers to the questions
1- How is China population
changing?
2- Why does this change faster
than in other countries?
3- How have the elderly been
traditionally cared for?
4- How are the elderly being
cared today?
A- Because of the country’s one
child policy.
B- The responsibility is being
transferred to nursing homes
and the government.
C- Their children have looked
after them.
D- It’s aging population is
increasing fast.
READING: UNCERTAIN FUTURE
CHECK YOUR ANSWERS!
1- How is China population
changing?
2- Why does this change faster
than in other countries?
3- How have the elderly been
traditionally cared for?
4- How are the elderly being
cared today?
A- Because of the country’s one
child policy.
B- The responsibility is being
transferred to nursing homes
and the government.
C- Their children have looked
after them.
D- It’s aging population is
increasing fast.
WRITING: AVOID COMMA SPLICES AND RUN-ONS
• A comma splice is when you connect two sentences with a comma and no coordinating conjunctions (and-for-or-yet-but-nor-so). • For example: “My grandmother taught me how to bake,
however I never do.”
• To avoid these mistakes, you can: • Use a period and capitalize the following word
• Use a semicolon
• Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction
• Now correct the three mistakes from the paragraphs about grandmother’s advices.
Summit 1: Page 96
