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1. UNIT 8: FAMILY TRENDS
OBJECTIVES: DESCRIBE FAMILY TRENDS

2. INTRODUCTION
• What is generation Gap:
• It’s the difference in opinions and behaviors between
people of different generations.
• For example, each generation in the family might have
conflicting views on:
• Fashion
• Music
• Movies
• Morals
Summit 1: Page 86

3. SOUND BITES
• Read the conversation between Teresa and Bettina
talking about Sam and Bettina’s relationship and
answer the following questions:
• What happened to Sam and Margaret?
• What’s the problem in Bettina's family?
• What has Bettina done to try to solve the problem?
• What does Teresa think about this?
Summit 1: Page 87

4. EXPRESSIONS FROM CONVERSATION
END A RELATIONSHIP • We split up
• We had a falling out
• Things didn’t work out
START A RELATIONSHIP • We got back together
• My girlfriend and I are trying to
patch things up
• In the end, things didn’t workout
GOOD BEHAVIOR • My son is well-behaved
• I sent the children to a summer
camp to see if they shape up
BAD BEHAVIOR • Michael is such a troublemaker
• Ever since my son turned 11 he
started to act up.
• My daughter never talks back to
her teachers.
Summit 1: Page 88

5. EXPRESSIONS FROM CONVERSATION
• Write down a sentence for each of the following
expressions used in the conversation about relationships:
• Get Back together (positive for the relationship)
• Patch things up (+)
• Split up (Negative for the relationship)
• To have a falling out (-)
• To work out things out (+)
• To act up (-)
• To talk back (-)
• To be a troublemaker (-)
• To shape up (+)
• To be well behaved (+)
Summit 1: Page 88

6. GRAMMAR SNAPSHOT
• Read an excerpt of this article and notice the use of
Repeated Comparatives and Double
Comparatives:
• “Current trends show the size of families is changing,
impacting societies worldwide. Women are marrying later,
and couples are waiting longer to have children. And the
longer couples wait to have children, the fewer children
they have.”
• In addition to the falling birthrate, there is a rising life
expectancy. With people living longer and longer, families
are going to have to face the challenges posed by an
aging population.”
Summit 1: Pages 88-89

7. DOUBLE COMPARATIVES
• Double comparatives are used to describe a
cause-and-effect process, for example:
• The more something causes a situation, the better the
effect is.
• The higher the price of the food (cause),the fewer the
people buy (effect).
• Note: When be is used in double comparatives, it is sometimes
omitted:
• The better the quality of health care (is), the highest the life
expectancy (is).
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8. REPEATED COMPARATIVES
• Repeated comparatives are used to describe
actions and things that are increasing and
decreasing:
• The birthrate is getting lower and lower.
• More and more people are marrying later.
• Note: Repeated comparatives and double comparatives use
adjectives and adverbs depending on the type of word that is
being modified:
• The more women work (adverb), the fewer children (adjective)
they have.
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9. VOCABULARY: PARENT AND TEEN BEHAVIOR
PARENTS TEENS
• Strict: parents set a • Rebellious: Teenagers
lot of restrictions. refuse to follow rules.
• Lenient: Parents let • Spoiled: Teenagers
their kids do anything expect to have or do
they want. whatever they want.
• Overprotective: • Disrespectful:
Parents worry too Teenagers are rude to
much about their adults and think what
kids. adults say is not
• Rebellious important.
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10. TRANSFORMING VERBS / ADJECTIVES INTO NOUNS
Most of words don’t follow rules for their formation as nouns, but
we can see different groups to better remember:
From Verbs From Adjectives
• Expect → Expectation • Fair → Fairness
• Explain → Explanation • Strict → Strictness
• Develop → Development • Generous → Generosity
• Involve → Involvement • Mature → Maturity
• Courteous → Courtesy • Important → Importance
• Difficult → Difficulty
• Independent →
• Responsible → Responsibility Independence
• Reliable → Reliability • Lenient → Lenience
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11. READING: UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Read the article on your book and match the answers to the
questions
1- How is China population A- Because of the country’s one
changing? child policy.
2- Why does this change faster
than in other countries? B- The responsibility is being
transferred to nursing homes
and the government.
3- How have the elderly been
traditionally cared for? C- Their children have looked
after them.
4- How are the elderly being
cared today? D- It’s aging population is
increasing fast.

12. READING: UNCERTAIN FUTURE
CHECK YOUR ANSWERS!
1- How is China population A- Because of the country’s one
changing? child policy.
2- Why does this change faster B- The responsibility is being
than in other countries? transferred to nursing homes
and the government.
3- How have the elderly been C- Their children have looked
traditionally cared for? after them.
4- How are the elderly being D- It’s aging population is
cared today? increasing fast.

13. WRITING: AVOID COMMA SPLICES AND RUN-ONS
• A comma splice is when you connect two sentences
with a comma and no coordinating conjunctions (and-
for-or-yet-but-nor-so).
• For example: “My grandmother taught me how to bake,
however I never do.”
• To avoid these mistakes, you can:
• Use a period and capitalize the following word
• Use a semicolon
• Use a comma and a coordinating conjunction
• Now correct the three mistakes from the paragraphs
about grandmother’s advices.
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