Growing pains

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Project 1
Unit 2
Growing pains
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an advice columnist

• get a rough idea about the trouble

• analyze the trouble

• find out the roots of the trouble

• give proper suggestions

• keep in regular contact with the sender

• feedback information

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• Read the first letter and answer
• Why does the father write the letter?
• What does the father think about his son?
• What is the father worrying about?

To ask for some help so as to help his son.
His son may fail at school or worse.
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Work in groups of 4 and find suggestions to the
son.

• Try to be a docile kid at home no matter whether
  you are an outstanding student at school.

• Never attempt to change your fathers character
  and to be an ideal father.

• Communicate with your father through letters if
  he happens to be short-tempered.

• Come up to your dad and tell him how much you
  care about him.

• Remember that its correct for a father to urge
  his son to study hard.

• Make your father believe youll be successful in
  life by doing what you like.

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• Read the second letter and answer
• Why does the son write the letter?
• What are his problems?
• How does he feel about his father?

To be helped with some problems he has at home.
He loves his father a lot. He hopes his father
can understand him better and respect the things
he wants to do.
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Work in groups of 4 and find suggestions to the
father.

• Try to look at things from your sons angle. If
  you trade your role with your son, I believe you
  will realize some of the problems you mentioned
  in your letter are easy to solve.

• Prepare to have a heart-to-heart talk with him.
  music are
• part of a young peoples life. You cant stop
  him just because
• good communication will smooth the problems.
  Your son
• wants you to treat him as your equal while you
  act as a
• commander. Thats where all the problems come
  from.

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• Remember what your son needs is more than
  material comfort.

• Youd better not put too much pressure on your
  son.
• Be a good motivator. Try to encourage him to
  find
• himself, to build up self-confidence. Cut out
  harsh
• remarks when your son falls short of your
  expectation.

• Unconditional love is very important, because he
  is
• your son.

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Homework

Get ready to write an advice letter.
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problems the father thinks about his son

• disobeys everything his parents ask him to do

• is rude to them

• refuses to spend time with them

• refuses to do his homework

• spends too much time watching DVDs, listening to
  foreign music, chatting in Internet cafes,
  playing games and surfing the Internet

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problems the son thinks about his father

• doesnt listen to him when he wants to do
  something or suggests an idea

• shouts at him when he tries to talk to him

• fights like crazy when he refuses to his father

• makes him do things he doesnt like

• calls him selfish and unloving when he wants to
  be alone

• gets very angry when he plays foreign music

• sends him to bed or tell him to study when he
  watches a DVD

• forbids him from meeting his friends at the
  Internet