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Ingles B1

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Ingles B1

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Culture teacher’s notes B1 Unit

The third age


LEARNING ■ I can learn about how older people are treated in other cultures and use what I learn to make
OUTCOMES connections with my own culture.
■ I can discuss older people in my own culture and understand my own cultural identity.
■ I can make comparisons between cultures and use my own beliefs and values to improve my cultural
knowledge.

2b Students scan the text more carefully and decide if the


A VOCABULARY FOCUS
questions are true or false. Have students work alone
address [v]: to call someone by a particular title when before checking their answers with a partner. Finally,
you speak to them check answers as a class.
(to be) considered [v]: to be thought about
cope [v]: to manage a difficult situation successfully Answers
elderly [adj]: a more respectful term for describing 1 F 2 T 3 T 4 F 5 T 6 F 7 F 8 T
older people
esteem [n]: respect, admiration 2c Ask students to read through the statements and talk
highly regarded [adj]: respected about them with a partner. Elicit answers from the class.
link [n]: connection between people, places, Answers
events, etc
1 Roweng, Yuki 2 Penny 3 Roweng 4 Yuki
look up to [v]: to admire and respect someone
5 Penny 6 Roweng, Yuki
residential home [n]: a place where older people can
live together and be looked after by trained staff
role [n]: the influence of someone or something in a Gateway to culture
particular situation 3a Put students in pairs to discuss the questions about the
society [n]: people living together in a community elderly. Then elicit ideas from the class.
and the laws and traditions that govern how they
behave
Answers
twilight years [n]: old age Students’ own answers
wise [n]: someone with enough experience to allow
them to make good choices PROJECT
youngster [n]: a young person
3b DEBATE Explain the idea of a debate and the words
WARMER for and against. Have students read through the
debate card and make sure they are familiar with the
Ask students what they think ‘the third age’ means.
words and the ideas. In Step 1, students express their
Elicit some ideas before explaining that it means
personal opinions on the statement. Ask students to
‘a period of life after middle age, when people are
work in pairs to do Step 2 and add more points to
retired but active’. Write the following information
the for and against columns of the table. Elicit ideas
on the board, By 2050, 20% of the world’s
from the class and write them on the board.
population will be over 60. Ask students, How do
you think this will affect the world? Elicit ideas from 3c Explain that for this stage students will debate as
students, e.g. There will be more old people to care directed, and that this may mean they are arguing
for, It may cost more money, etc. against their own personal opinions. With their
partner, students find another pair to debate against.
1 Ask students to read through the statistics and discuss In Step 1, one pair argues for the statement and
them with their partner. Elicit ideas from students in the other pair argues against it. Then in Step 2 they
open class when they finish. swap roles so that the first pair argues against the
statement and the second pair argues for it. That way
2a Ask students to read through the text quickly and everyone gets the opportunity to put both sides of
decide with their partner what the text says about how the argument.
older people are treated in each country.

Answers
Papua New Guinea: well
Japan: well
UK: not so well

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