Modern Family
Lexical Focus: Words related to Family, Expressions to give opinion and disagree
Grammar Focus: If clause
Discourse Focus: Argumentation
Phonological Awareness: Long and Short vowel
Cultural Awareness: Uses and translation of proverbs, Ambiguity
How important is your family to you? How can we define the word family? Who
in your family do you get along well with best?
Discussion
1. What would you do if you had kids like those? Do/ would you try to be a cool parent?
2. What behavior is considered unacceptable? Would you allow your daughter to wear a
mini skirt to go to school?
3. Would you allow your daughter to date an older person?
Correction
My family is my support system.
She was in love with Japan. / As my mom was./ As I am.
Argue x discuss
Deal with people/kids/ family.
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Polemic topics
Give your opinion about the topics below. Use the expression to agree or disagree and
expressions to soften up or emphasize your opinions.
Agreement
I agree
Disagreement
I disagree
Soften up
I might be wrong but
Emphasizing
I am positive that
Gay marriage;
Gay couple adopting kids;
Physical punishments to discipline children.
Cultural Awareness
Glória is Colombian ,during the soccer match, we can notice she is a very intense and
emotional person. Observing the first scene and comparing her to the American parents who
are also watching their kids soccer match, can you perceive any differences regarding
behavior? If so, what is it?
When Glória and Jay translate the Spanish expression “ voy a ser la brisa en tu espalda no
quien te escupa en la frente” into English, why do you think people do not understand it?
Why did Mitchell get so upset when the woman on the airplane says, “look at the baby with
those cream puffs”?
Phonological Awareness
On the last scene of this episode, there was a misunderstanding due to mispronunciation.
What did Glória mispronounced that has caused a misunderstanding? Have you ever gone
through an embarrassing situation due to mispronouncing words?