A Quiet Revolution?

The book “In Rythm” has been used by an English language institute and show us the text “A quiet revolution?”. This text focus the divorce rates rise into differents countries since Sweden, Denmark, France, United Kingdom, Spain etc.

Even in Italy where the families were always traditionally, there are a huge increase of “divorce culture”. In the “A quiet revolution?” relates about a new revolution therefore the new changes inside the family’s core as well as families are getting smaller.

Anyway, the same text relates the births outside marriage and about children have been living with only parent. So, the question is focusing in the families around all the word and the thoughts around marriage that is becoming less important among young people.

Source:
MOOR, Peter; CUNNINGHAM, Sarah. In Rhythm: class book 1. England: Pearson, 2005.

By Adriana Nascimento ; ]

Lesson Plan with Games

Describing Appearances & Characteristics of People
Goal: The student will be able to speak about characteristics.
Level: Easy to Medium (Low to low intermediate).

Each student is then give one sheet of paper. One student sits at the front of a room. He/she describes a person and the rest of the class draws the person being described.
It is more interesting if the person being described is known by everyone. Once the student has finished describing that person then he/she reveals who it is and each student shows his/her drawing. The laughter from this is hilarious as the impressions tend to make the character in question look funny.

It is a good idea to encourage students to ask the interviewer student questions about who they are describing.

Adapted from http://iteslj.org/c/games.html

By Adriana Nascimento