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The Interacting with Your Family theme explores learners' experiences and relationships with their families.
The topics under the theme of Interacting with Your Family include:
Your Family in Canada
Favourite Family Activity
Discussions at Home
Interacting at Home
Interacting with Guests & Neighbours
Before you ask students to record their videos, it is always helpful to prepare them with some warm-up activities. We have included some suggestions for you as well as some worksheets that can prepare students for the speaking portion of the activities.
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Interacting with Your Family Activity Guide (PDF)
Me Mapping Mini-Guide for Teachers - Interacting With Your Family Revised 2024.pdfThe section below includes detailed prompts and videos you can use to create your own Flipgrid Topic. You can copy or adapt the prompts below in your own grid. Additionally, you may want to download the video and upload it as a Media Resource in your grid.
For more information on how to use Flipgrid and create your own grids, please refer to the Flipgrid Educator's Guide.
Yourfamily in Canada.mp4Your Family in Canada
How many brothers and sisters do you have?
What position are you in your family? Are you in the middle or the youngest or the oldest?
Do you have grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins in Canada?
Who do you live with in Canada?
Your Favourite Family Activity.mp4Favorite Family Activity
Tell us more about your family:
Which family members do you spend most time with?
What is your favorite family activity?
Discussions at Home.mp4Discussions at Home
Describe how your family uses language during dinner.
What topics do you talk about at home?
Does everyone use the same language during conversations at home?
Do you ever move from one language to another when you are having a conversation at home?
Interacting at Home.mp4Interacting at Home
What languages do you hear in your home?
What languages do you speak to different family members?
Have the languages you use in your home changed over the years?
What language are the books, magazines and newspapers in your home?
When you leave a note for someone you live with, what language do you write it in?
Interacting with Guests.mp4Interacting with Guests & Neighbours
Does the language you use in your home change when you have guests?
Do you speak the same language to everyone you live with?
What languages do your neighbours speak and what language do you speak with them?
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