W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

answers:
1. Mirzohid doesn’t often have arguments with his parents.
Don’t know
2. Dilnoza’s parents are so strict.
False
3. Mirzohid thinks that some teenagers do something because of peer pressure. 
True
4. Dilshod thinks his parents should give him more freedom.
True
5. Dilnoza’s parents let her do anything she wants to do.
False
post-listening time: 15 min.
aim: 
practising the learned vocabulary.
4. 
Have students discuss the following questions in pairs. Go up to each pair 
and monitor their discussion. 
1. Why does Dilshod think his parents still treat him like a child? 
2. Why does Dilnoza think her parents give her some freedom? 
3. What examples of ‘peer pressure’ does Mirzohid give?
5. 
Divide students into two teams and tell them to read the following situation. 
Each team should role play the following situation. Let them have some time to 

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prepare. the teams perform their role-play.
student a
Your best friend has a personal problem and told you about it. You promised not 
to tell anyone and to mail your saggestions. You were sending your friend an 
e-mail about the problem, but by mistake you sent it to the biggest gossiper in 
your group.
next day that student spread it in the class.
Justify yourself.
student B
You have told your best friend about your personal problem.
You told nobody else.
Now everyone knows your secret. But he/she showed the reason. You also 
know his/he top secret. What would you do?
Grammar Time: 
15 min.
aim:
teaching 
unreal conditionals
and 
wish
.
there are many ways to introduce unreal conditionals, here is one of the 
possible ways:
Draw students’ attention to the weather. elicit some information about that day’s 
weather.
If it is sunny on the very day of your lesson, tell students that you 
wish it was 
raining:
– 
What is the weather like today?
(possible answers: it is sunny/cold.)
– 
But I do not like such kind of weather. I wish it was raining
. 
Write your sentences on the board and underline the word wish. Ask students 
why past continuous is used in this sentence. elicit the answers. establish that 
this kind of sentence is unreal because it is not raining at the moment. that is 
why past tenses are usually used after wish sentences. Write more examples 
on the board:
If I were you, I would study hard. 
Ask students:
teacher, “
Am I a student now?”
Students, “No you are not.” 
Teacher, “I am not a student. I am a teacher. That is why I used past tense to 
show that the sentence is unreal.” 
Let students have some time to look through the grammar spots.