10 Intermediate
Ma. Keth Pedroso
Chapter 3:
Learning Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
- Apply the use of language to share family traditions or routines in small group discussions.
- Construct a descriptive paragraph that explains a family member’s profession with clear details.
- Create a short personal anecdote about a memorable family event, demonstrating creativity in writing.
Vocabulary
Essential Knowledge
Families often have unique traditions, routines, and roles that shape their identity. Describing family traditions helps with conversational skills, while writing about a family member’s profession develops technical writing. Sharing personal stories, like family memories, encourages creativity and emotional expression in writing.
Activities
General Instructions: Read and follow the instructions on each activity. Be ready to discuss, write, and share ideas with your classmates.
Conversational
Instruction: Create a group of five members. Think about one tradition or routine that your family follows. Take turns describing it to your groupmates, explain why it is important to your family. Follow the guide questions below upon answering:
- What is the tradition or routine in your family?
- What does your family do during this tradition or routine?
- Why is this tradition or routine important to your family?
- How does this tradition make you feel?
Technical
Instruction: In a paper, write and choose a family member and describe their job. Describe their daily responsibilities and the impact of their work on others. Conclude with why you admire them and what inspires you about their career.
Creative
Instruction: Recall a family gathering or event. Draw and write an anecdote about what happened and why it was memorable. After writing, share it with your classmates.
Let’s Check!
Fill in the blanks:
- A family’s regular habits are called ________.
- A job or career is known as a ________.
- A short, personal story is called an ________.
- ________ are actions repeated by a family during special times.
- A family member’s ________ can help define their role in the family.
Key Takeaways
Type your key takeaways here.
- In this lesson, you explored how family traditions and routines shape interactions and bonding within families, helping you understand the influence of family culture on relationships.
- Through conversational exercises, you practiced using English to describe family traditions, which helped you improve your speaking skills and express personal experiences more confidently.
- By writing about a family member’s profession, you learned to organize and explain job details, which developed your technical writing skills and enhanced your ability to write clearly and structured.
- The creative activity encouraged you to reflect on personal memories and express your emotions by sharing family anecdotes, helping you improve your creative writing skills while making the topic of family more relatable.
- Each task was designed to strengthen your communication, technical writing, and creative writing skills, allowing you to share and engage with family experiences in a meaningful way.