Lesson Plan

Level: 12th grade - advanced Number of students: 36 Length of the lesson: 55 minutes
Topic: Unit 1 – Home Life (basic) Teaching Date: Feb 15, 2017

Main aim: By the end of the lesson, students will have general knowledge about conflicts between parents and children in domestic
chores.
Subsidiary aim: Scanning for information and speaking skill.
Personal aim: to simplify the teacher’s classroom English
Assumption: Students have learned the simple present tense and the adjectives used in practice phase.
Anticipated problems & solutions:
Problem: Students may have trouble understanding and recognizing the form of new grammar point.
Solution: The teacher will be slow and careful with examples.
 Stage/Time Stage Aims Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Int.

 Ask Ss some basic question

o Do you do house chores at your home? Answer the teacher’s
o Why do you do it? question based on
To connect students’ o What kind of chores do you do? their knowledge,
Pre-reading knowledge/personal o How do you feel about it? feelings and personal
(15 mins) experience with the topic experiences.
 Draw a list of the answer on the board (example below)

 Ask more question to make student guess

o Do you think children in the USA do the same chores
as you ?
o Do you think they feel the same way as you ?

Read and answer the

 Give students 5ms to read the text. questions.

To develop students’  Instruct them to work in pairs for 4ms to answer the Correct their answer
While-reading reading skill for specific following question :
(20 mins) information. o What time does the “usual conflict” takes at?
o According to the survey, what does 25% of responding
parent do? And which “tasks” usually concerned among
parents?
o How many percent household labor that children
contributed?
o What did Virginia complained about modern kids?

 11ms for Ss to answer and the teacher corrects them.

 Give students 7 minutes to pick one topic and discuss in a

group of 4 (2 desks in one row)

Post-reading Develop Ss speaking skill via  Ask some students to present their ideas orally (8ms) Discuss and present
(15 mins) discussion their ideas.
 Topic of discussion
o Differences between house chores in VN and in the US
o What problems you often have with your parents over
house chores
o The responsibility of children in VN
List of answer according to the number of hands raised (sample)
Chores Number of doers   
Washing dishes 10
Feeding pets 10
Laundry 5
Cleaning house 5
Gardening 6

Reading text
“Clean that pigsty of a room. Right now!” Virginia shouted to her teenager daughter as she peered through the bedroom door after a
long day of work. The daughter, sitting cross-legged on the floor, looked up from her math homework with a shocked but otherwise disgusted
glare.

The nightly conflict had begun at its usual time, precisely 6:05 p.m. The scenario is all too common for anyone who has repeatedly
battled with their children over household chores.

What is the “magic formula” to get children to clean their rooms, help with the laundry, cook, wash dishes, or do any number of the
daily tasks that keep homes up and running? Dismayed parents often wonder where they went wrong.

“I remember when I was her age,” says a bewildered Virginia, referring to Terri, her 15-year-old daughter. “I had twice as much work to
do around the house. I wouldn’t have dreamed of blowing off the responsibility. Kids today have it too easy.”

According to the results of a recent survey conducted for the Soap and Detergent Association, 25 percent of responding parents
admitted that they constantly nag their children about cleaning their rooms. Other tasks, such as picking up dirty clothes, returning soiled dishes
to the sink, or hanging up wet towels, were causes for concern among parents.

The truth is, today’s kids may be contributing more than parents are giving them credit for, says, Sampson Lee Blair, a family sociologist
at Arizona State University (ASU). His research found that children ages 6 to 18 contribute 12 percent of all household labor. He found that nine
out of 10 American kids contribute to the household chores at some level.

“The amount of work that children contribute to the family is essential,” says Blair. “As an employer, could you imagine losing 12 percent
of your work force? It would be devastating.”

Blair has studied family dynamics for a decade. He looks at specific roles within family structure and at how families divvy up household
chores. His findings are interesting. He thinks that most contemporary parents are not necessarily as concerned with teaching these
developmental skills as they are with the pragmatic aspect.