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Unit 7
Breaking away Life Competencies

Warmer BREAKING AWAY UNIT 7
Write getting along with others on
the board and elicit the meaning LIFE COMPETENCIES
in this context (able to be friends
with people easily). Ask students Getting along with others is important. We don’t always agree with other people
or like the way they do things. However, even when we disagree with them,
to give themselves a mark out of we ought to be friendly and respect them.
ten for their ability to get on with 5 Compare your answers with a partner. Do you
people. Does ability to do this Getting along with others agree? Have you ever been in a similar situation?
What did you do?
change depending on who they are
SPEAKING Work in pairs. Match the solutions 1–4
SPEAKING
interacting with? 6 to situations A and B in Exercise 4. Then discuss.
Which solutions do you think are the best? Which
would you not recommend?
19 Life Lessons: 1 Suggest everyone in the group votes on which ideas
to use. Both of you will have to be prepared to
Getting along with others accept that it may not be your ideas that are chosen.
2 Confront your teacher again and ask for an
explanation. Explain that your work won’t improve
unless he gives you clear feedback on exactly what
the problem is. Refuse to leave until it is resolved.
1 19 Check/clarify: difficult, jail. 3 Listen to your friend’s ideas and think about how
19 Watch the vlog. How would you describe
Ask students to compare their 1 the situation at home between Leo and his sister? they could work with your own. Maybe you could
ideas with a partner. use some of your ideas and some of hers, too.
2 19 Watch the vlog again and make notes on: 4 Try talking to another teacher. Ask him/her for
advice on how to deal with the situation.
a three annoying things Leo does.
2 19 Ask students to try to b three annoying things his sister does. Me and my world
answer the questions from
memory before watching the 3 Compare your notes with a partner. 7 Think of someone you don’t get along well with.
Write down:
video again to check. 1 three reasons why you don’t get along.
a He plays music loudly; he borrows 4 Read the situations. Make notes about what you 2 three things you could do to change things.
would do in each situation.
his sister’s phone charger and forgets A You are working on a project with a group of
to put it back; he teases her about students in your class. You have lots of good ideas TIPS FOR GETTING ALONG
WITH OTHERS
that you want to use, but one person is difficult to
a boy she likes. work with. She also has lots of ideas for the project,
b She’s usually in a bad mood; she but the problem is you don’t think her ideas are very • Take a bit of time to stop and think about
what someone has said or done. Don’t
shouts at Leo; she says his music is good. She says that you are too bossy and that you respond or react in anger. This could make
won’t listen to anyone else, because you think your
rubbish; she doesn’t help around the ideas are the best. the situation worse.
house; she thinks she’s better than B You have always been good at English, in particular • Be positive. Think of solutions to your
problem before you speak to the person.
creative writing, and you usually get top marks. You
anyone else. used to have a good relationship with your teacher, • Try to feel empathy. There may be a reason
but recently, he has started to be quite negative why the person is behaving a certain way.
about your work and has even criticised it in front Ask how they are feeling.
3 As a follow-up, ask students to of the class. Last week, you got a really bad mark for
rank their list in Exercise 2a from your homework and you don’t know why. When you
the most to the least annoying. tried to speak to your teacher about it, he seemed
annoyed.
Discuss as a class and come up
with a definitive list.
4 You could put students in two
groups and give each one of
the situations to read and share 73
ideas on.
5 Give students three or four Homework
minutes to think about their
answers before discussing. Ask students to write two short texts describing their relationship with someone
they get on with and someone they don’t get on with in their family.
6 Monitor and prompt students Have the students keep a journal for two or three days, with a record of how
to keep talking, but as this they got on with their family – who they got on with, who they didn’t get on
is a fluency activity, do not with and what they did or could have done to get on better.
interrupt to correct mistakes.
While monitoring, note down
any common errors to review as Activity idea Extension
a class at the end. Students write five sentences
A 1 and 3 B 2 and 4
describing the people that they get more
7 You may want to talk about or along with best.
invent someone you don’t get on
with yourself as an example. Practice Extra
Unit 7 Master it!
Worksheets
Emotional Development Life Lessons: Getting along with others
Empathy and relationship skills
Showing understanding of other people’s perspectives and feelings. Tests
Stating opposing opinions in a respectful way. Unit, extension and skills test 7
Negotiating conflict constructively.
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