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select your: 
• topic (where necessa
• language skill focus: listening, speaking, reading, writi
• vocabulary 
• grammar focus 
• activities 
• assignments 
Figure 8.1 shows the outlin
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syllabus. The extract reads as f
Lesson VII -Talking about Family Relation
By the end of the lesson the stu
• Use
and interrogative. 

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• Complete the set of possessive adjectives by adding "our" and "their" to nouns. 
• Use the possessive for persons: "Robert's wife." 
ssive adjectives and use them in comparison to possessive pronouns: "my/mine," 
," answering with "mine," "hers," etc. 
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO ASK AND ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR 
. 
• Recall posse
"your/yours," and so on. 
• Understand and use "whose
OBJECTIVES 
FAMILIES
LANGUAGE SKILLS 
A) LISTENING AND SPEAKING: EXAMPLE: HOW MANY BROTHERS DOES MARIA 
HAVE? FOUR. 
B) READING AND WRITING: READING, FILLING IN BLANKS 
VOCABULARY FATHER, 
MOTHER, BROTHER, SISTER, SON, DAUGHTER, HUSBAND, WIFE 
MY, HIS, HER, OUR, YOUR, MINE, THEIR 
MINE, HIS, HERS, OURS, YOURS, THEIRS 
GRAMMAR FOCUS 
1) POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES: THAT'S MY FATHER. 
2) POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS: THAT BABY IS MINE. 
3) WHOSE SISTER IS THAT? 
4) GENITIVES: THAT'S JUAN'S BROTHER. 
5) HAS/HAVE AFFIRMATIVE/INTERROGATIVE 
MATERIALS 
FLIP CHARTS OR BLACKBOARDS FOR FAMILY TREES 
ACTIVITIES 
YES/NO QUESTIONS, TPR, FILLING IN THE BLANKS, DRAMATIZATION OF STORY 
ASSIGNMENTS 
DRAW A CARTOON STRIP OF THE JOSE/MIGUEL STORY 
Figure 8.1 Outline: Lesson VII, Family Relationships
There are no differences between the content of Figure 8.1 and the extract from the syllabus, but the column 
on the left hand side of the figure adds an organizational dimension which makes it easier to read and which 
will act as a reminder for you to include all the elements in your outline.