Урок — ролевая игра TV Interview "An ideal family"

Goals:

To develop students' listening, speaking and writing skills;
To teach students to work cooperatively.
To broaden conversation vocabulary
To assess students' speaking abilities, progress and achievement on certain  topics.

Language Asking questions, introducing someone, describing something (using   resent simple.)

Level Intermediate.

Time 45 minutes.

Organization Groups of four or three;

Topics for discussion Family;
Profession
Describing characters and appearance;

Useful expressions Love conquers all; Nature's Masterpiece, marriage;
building relationship, affectionate love for children, well rooted, rootless;
not expected to compete each other, family members;
to provide, to support, to respect, to be healthy, to inherit, to communicate, to punish, to persuade, to begin with, in my opinion, to my mind, as a matter of fact, to cut a long story short;
tactful, good natured, intellectually stimulating, sensitive, witty, talkative, self confident, cheerful, inventive, polite, helpful, good looking, hardworking, creative, friendly, attractive, smoke free, reliable partner in business, sociable, successful company manager, sociologist, peace-loving,

Step1

One of the groups has to prepare the role of the interviewer and write down the . questions interviewer could ask the members of the family. All the other groups represent members of the family. They should allocate the different roles within the group and talk about the personalities , ways of behavior, and ideas of the people of in their family.

Step 2

Each family is interviewed by a different interviewer in turn in front of the class. At the beginning of the role play each member of the family introduces either himself or another family member.

Step3

Since a lot of the students' values and ideals regarding families will have become obvious , they should be discussed afterwards.

Step 4

Each member of the "family" writes their ideas of an "ideal family".

Role cards

Group 1

You are journalists. You are going to make a report about the ideal family and prepared some questions.

1 How important is your family to you?

2 Do you consider yourself

a) rootless

b) well-rooted

с) something between two?

3. Do you think marriage is a good thing?
4. Have you ever thought you might not got married?
5. Do you think most children can communicate well with their parents?
6. Do you think parents should never punish their children but instead try to persuade them?

Group 2

You are a family of four.

Mr Smith .You have a wife and two children. You are a successful company manager. You are always on a business trip. At end of the trip you are always very tired but happy. Everybody in your family is glad to see you at home again. It is a pity that you are always short of time. You are sure that love conquers all.

Mrs Smith. You are a housewife. You think that your husband doesn't love you. When you sit in the living room your husband always watches TV, and never looks at you. When you eat breakfast together he always reads newspapers and never talks to you. When you go to parties he always sits with his friends and rarely dances with you. He is lazy. He never helps you with the housework. He never plays with the kids. Your son is naughty. They make you crazy .You do not think that it is a happy family life.

Tony .You are a student of the fifth grade . Your mother is a very attractive woman. She does everything about the house. You think she is the busiest person in your family. As a matter of fact you would like to help her , but unfortunately you do not like washing the dishes. Cooking is not for you. How could you help your mother? To make your bed? But it is really boring. To feed and walk the dog? Why you again?

Group 3

You are a family of four: father, mother and their children: a son Paul and a daughter Brenda .

Mr Tailor. You are a successful doctor. You deal with a lot of people: men and women of different occupation: factory and farm workers, soldiers and employees, businessmen and housewives. You are devoted to your work. Every free time you spent with your family. You gain a number of benefits by placing great importance on the individual happiness of each family member. Your motto is: The happier the individual is the happier the whole family is.

Mrs Tailor. You are a sociologist. You are busy at work. But your husband and your children help you : to do the shopping, to wash the dishes, to walk the dog. Home as you think is refuge. Family members are not expected to compete each other. You enjoy every minute you spend with your family. You often visit your parents and relatives

Brenda. A girl of 12. You love your parents. Your mother is a very attractive woman. She looks like a film star. You are a good daughter. You always help your mother. You wash the dishes.

You tidy up the rooms once a week. You make biscuits. You are happy when your parents are happy.

Paul . You are a boy of 14. You are a good student at school. Your favorite subject is math. Your parents have been married for 16 years. Your parents have different views on music, books, films and sports, but they have the same opinion about their children education and upbringing. Your family is very united. You like to spend your time together. Sometimes you stay at home and watch TV or just talk. On the weekends you go out of town. You are happy to be together and wish one another the very best.

Group 4

You are a family of four. You have two daughters Alison and Natalie.

Mr Garret. You are a successful TV interviewer with your own chat show. You and your wife Mary have two daughters Alison and Natalie. Your wife is a teacher. She is hardworking and creative. Your daughters are very charming. You are a brilliant talker and very reliable partner in business. An ideal family in your opinion is group cooperation to achieve the fulfillment of each individual member, to achieve shared affection which is necessary to renew each member's emotional strength.

Mrs Garret. You are a teacher. You keep the house and take care of your family. Of course your daughters and your husband help you. To your mind a family is one of the Nature's masterpieces Every masterpiece is born in pain, so it would be a mistake to think that a happy family doesn't face any problems. Clever and understanding parents are always ready to experiment and find the way out.

Natalie. You are 15 years old. Your family is not very large: Mom, Dad, your little sister and you. Your mother is a very nice woman. You like her brown eyes, her soft voice and the way she smiles. She is very patient and warm hearted. You admire your father for his strong character. There are moments in your life when you feel lost and nothing is left but a deep sigh. You are happy that you can cast all your troubles and concerns to your Mom and Dad. They understand and comfort you. It is your parents who give you a good example to follow. You feel safe: the little world within your family is perfect.

Alison. You are 12 years old. When you were little you believed that your mother was a princes. Your mother knows many interesting stories. She is a great cook. When she has enough time she cooks delicious dishes. You spend your vocations and weekends together. You have many relatives. Your aunts, uncles and cousins live in different parts of the country. You visit each other very often. You have two grandmothers and a grandfather. You love them very much and often visit them.

Role play

Learning is more effective if learners are actively involved in the process of learning. My choice of the role plays is guided by the intention to achieve effective language situations rather then extremely original topics. Role plays make use of two types of materials: role cards and cue cards . The worksheet for my plan contains role cards (see the worksheet) which tell the players what the person whose role they are taking is like. Role plays generally improve students' oral performance. They are quite demanding foreign language situations in that players have to use the foreign language correctly and adequately both in terms of foreign language itself and the particular role that is acted out. Even very advanced learners of English are rarely able to speak consciously in a particular style or register, which may be necessary for a role. For these students the study of text, or better video tapes of level of formality , can be a valuable training in this skill prior to role play.

My role as a teacher : to be motivator, helper, adviser; watch and see that the groups are working effectively together, that the tasks are being shared out equally, that the class time is being used effectively.