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"Relationships" Learning about each other
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Student Questionnaire
by Chryssa Laskaridoullllill
Please feel free to answer where applicable- use a tick
EFL State School Teacher
1.Do you have a boyfriend or agirlfriend?
Yes ' No
2.Whodid you tell about him/her? LESSON PLAN
Father Mother
Brother Sister Objectives:
Best Friend Other a) to increase knowledge and awareness of the individual
3.Do your parents approve of this relationship? cultures represented in the class
Yes No I don’t know b) to practise writing questions
4.Would you continue to see a boy or a girl if your c) to practise speaking about one’s culture
parents did not want you to doso? d) to promote learner centredness
Yes, because e) to enhance collaborative work
f) toexperience the other’s language
No, because
I don’t know Materials:
5At what age do teenagersstart dating in your country? Bag
In Junior High School Slips of paper with prepared personal questions
In Senior High School OHP, OHP transparencies
At University
6.For how long do teenagers usually go steady in your Level: All levels
country?
For a week For a month Time:One lesson or a series of lessons
For a year More than a year
For ever Other Procedure: Warm up
Put students into groups (not national groups)
. . . . . . : • • Studentsselect and answer questions from bag
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27th April, 2001 • Students write 4 questions per group to discover
H i information about each other’scountries and
DearMolly, cultures
Thegreat love I said I have foryouisgone,and I find my • Teachers writes up these questions in correct form on
dislike foryou increasesevery day. When I see you, Ido not OHP
even like the wayyou look;theonething I want to doisto • Students choose 4 questions per group to answer in
oralor written form comparing thesituations in both
look theother way.Ineverwanted to marryyou.Ourlast countries
conversation was verydulland in no way has made me • After all groups have completed answering their
anxioustoseeyouagain.You think onlyof yourself.If we questionsconduct a class discussion referring to what
were married,I knowthat I would find life very difficult, and they have learned about each others’countries and
I would haveno pleasurein living with you. I have a heart to also about their own.
give, but it Is not a heart I want togiveto you.Noone is more . Write this up in two columnson OHP
demandingof selfish than you, and less able to care for me
andbeof helptome.I sincerely wantyou tounderstand that Closing activity
I speak thetruth.You will do me afavour if you consider Students teach each other one sentence in each other’s
thisthe end. Do not try toanswerthis.Yourletters are fullof language
things that do not interest me.Youhave no true concern for eg. Hike
me.Goodbye! Believeme, I donot care foryou.Please do Expected Outcome:
not think I amstillyourloving friend. a) to discover both similarities and differences of the
individual cultures
Yours, Desmond b) to increase understanding and awareness of each
others’cultures

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