Embracing Fatherhood
ESL Lesson PlansEmbracing Fatherhood

Embracing Fatherhood

This ESL lesson plan dives into modern fatherhood, focusing on speaking and listening skills in a C1-level flipped classroom format for adults. Students will explore themes like paternity leave, gender roles, and work-life balance through pre-class activities, including vocabulary practice and video analysis. In the classroom, learners engage in storytelling, opinion sharing, and debates, enhancing their ability to express complex ideas and discuss societal issues in a structured group setting.

Skills

  • Can select relevant, detailed information and arguments on complex, abstract topics from multiple spoken sources (e.g., lectures, podcasts, formal discussions and debates, interviews, etc.), provided that standard language is delivered at normal speed in one of the range of accents familiar to the listener.
  • Can give a clear, well-structured presentation of a complex subject, expanding and supporting points of view at some length with subsidiary points, reasons, and relevant examples.
Online Interactive
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At home: Match the following words with their definitions.

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At home: Complete the dialogue with the same words and phrases from the previous exercise.

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At home: Watch the video and answer the questions.

4

At home: Watch the video again and be ready to take notes.

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At home: Find ideas supporting the opposite point of view (in YouTube videos, articles, books, etc.).

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In the classroom: Choose one of these pictures and come up with a short story describing it.

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In the classroom: Share your opinion.

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In the classroom: Group Discussion.

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