Course Content
WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY
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VIDEO AND DISCUSSION
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HOMEWORK/REVISION
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Spotting the flags

This lesson starts with a warm-up. Students look at people’s habits and behaviours (e.g. They expect you to always take the initiative, they don’t try to change you, etc.) and discuss their thoughts about them and relationship dynamics. After that, they match the beginnings with the endings of statements about identifying positive and negative traits in relationships. Then, students match vocabulary for discussing relationships from the statements (e.g. dwell on something, turn a blind eye to something, come off as, etc.) with their definitions. Following that, they read pairs of examples (e.g. a person turns a blind eye to trivial disagreements OR a person finds playing hot and cold unacceptable) and decide if they represent green or red flags. Next, students discuss which example in each pair is ‘greener’ or ‘redder’ in their opinion and explain their answer.