Topic:

HUMAN RELATIOSHIPS

- a relationship, -formal and informal behavior, - body language

1. Tasks:
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY:

- Who influenced your values and how? (parents, teachers, other people, role-models, my
contemporaries  peer pressure)
- Try to characterize human relations in Slovakia (i.e. between neighbor, shop
assistant/customer, co-workers)
- Are you satisfied with the relationships in your family? What would you change if you
could? How would your family be different? What aspects would you like to keep?
- Are your parents self-critical enough about teaching values?
- What are your parents´ worries about you?
- Is it easy to teach values? Why? Why not?
- Would you like to get married one day? What qualities should your future partner have?
- What kind of wedding would you like to have when you find the right person? Where
would you like to spend your honeymoon?
- How long should people go out together before getting married? What should they learn
about each other?
- In a world where many people get separated or get divorced, do you see marriage as
a lifelong commitment?
- What makes a good and happy marriage?
- What leads to marriage problems and divorce?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of having children?
- Would you like to have children? If so, how many?
- Can children help and strengthen a marriage?
- If you could choose the sex of your children, what would you prefer? Why?
- What in your opinion makes a happy family?
- Why do some children run away from home?
- Do you think that today´s world is a dangerous place for children to grow up in?
- What do you think of a person leaving his or her partner who has become mentally or
physically disabled?
- What in your opinion is true love – what does it depend on?
FRIENDSHIP:

- How many friends do you have? Are they mainly in your school, or, if not, where do they
live?
- What gender are they mainly?
- What qualities do you appreciate in your friends? What makes someone a special or best
friend?
- Why are friendships important to you? Do you still maintain friendships from the past?
- How long have you known your best friend?
- Where did you meet and what doyou have in common?
- Do you have any penfriends and if so, where? Have you ever met your penfriend
personally?
- What are some good ways or opportunities to meet new people, make friends?
- How can you get to know a person better?
- What is the relationship between love and friendship?
- If you had the chance to meet a famous sportsman, actor, musician, writer or politician,
who would you like to meet and why?
- If you could have dinner with a member of the British royal family, who would it be and
what would you ask him or her?
- Tell us about the most interesting person you have ever met.
- If you have got into a bad friendship, what can you do?
- What is needed to build a good, lasting friendship?
- Why should one be selective in developing a friendship?
- What human qualities contribute to a good friendship?
- Have you ever got into a friendship that turned out false and disappointing? What made
the friendship bad?
- From what you have seen, read or experienced, describe what can happen as a result of
a bad friendship.

2. Key words
ROLE-PLAYS
A

- Describe the pictures.

- Retell a short story of a picture chosen by you.
B

- „There are not many male – female friendships.“ Do you agree?

- What is your attitude to people like homosexuals, homeless people, disabled or addicted
individuals?
- What is a difference between formal and informal relationships? Give examples.

- Are you satisfied with the relationships in your family? Would you change anything?
- What are the qualities of a good friend?

A level

- Why do the vandalism, egoism and aggressiveness exist in our society?

- What do you think of a person leaving his or her partner who has become mentally or
physically disabled?

Student: You have got a very good friend who has just started to take drugs. You have just
seen him/her to take it and you are asking some information about it. Finally, you decide to
persuade him/her to stop it.

Teacher: You are a drug-addicted person. You are trying to solve your own problems this way
and a very good friend of yours has just seen you to take it.

Student A: You have a very good friend who has just started taking drugs. You have just seen
him taking it and you ask about it. Finally, you decide to persuade him/her to stop it.

Student B: Your friend has just found out you were taking drugs. You like it and you don´t
want to give it up. Try to discuss it with him.