Learning objectives: To scan the text and give Preparation Time: 5–10 minutes
short answers Completion Time: 60 minutes
Skill: Reading/Grammar: ’would like’ and ‘like’ Age/Level: Adults/Low–High beginners
Resources: Family Vocabulary Warm-Up
Family and Families Worksheet
Life and Children Survey
Family fortune (Game)
A4 blank sheets and a marker, Post-it notes
Warm-Up
• Jumble the letters in the word family. Put a different letter on six separate Post-it Notes.
Put these on the board. Ask students to use all the letters to make a word. Elicit family and tell
students this is what they are going to read about.
• See (Family Vocabulary Warm-Up) for further words and how to set up the pair work
activity.
• Also use jumbled letters for the following words: writer, beautiful, fantastic.
Practice
• Write the following two questions, each with one word blanked, on the board:
________ you like big families? __________ you like to have children?
• Do you like … ? is a general question and Would you like … ? is a specific question
about now or the future.
• Give out copies of Life and Children Survey.
• Tell students to stand up with paper and pencil. Ask and answer the questions in pairs.
• As conversation runs out change partners. (Repetition builds confidence.)
• Do the same with a third or even fourth partner if time permits.
• Tell students to sit down and ask them to tell you one or two things about another
student.
Closure
• Tell students they are going to play a game.
• Give one A4 sheet to each pair.
• Follow the instructions in Family Fortune Game.
• Toss a coin and also check the meaning of heads and tails, and counter.
• Monitor the pairs.
• In open class ask some questions related to the board game to round off the lesson.