Maladjusted

Lead-in

  • What do diversity, equity and inclusion mean to you?
  • What are the benefits of having a diverse group of friends?
  • How diverse is your group of friends?

Presentation

Pre

  • What does it mean to be weird?

Top Down

  • What does the text talk about?
  • The importance of fitting in.
  • The importance of pleasing other people.
  • The importance of having friends that think like you.
  • The importance of fitting in.
  • The importance of pleasing other people.
  • The importance of having friends that think like you.

Why You Shouldn’t Feel Bad If You Don’t Fit In

Do you sometimes feel that you just don’t fit in? I am happiest when I am slobbing around at home in scruffy jeans, reading a great novel, writing, spending time with my nearest and dearest or playing with my dogs. I’m not good at social chitchat: I always seem to wear the wrong things and say the wrong things. It feels like there was a class at school on how to dress and behave at social functions that I missed out on. It can make me feel that I am just not like everyone else and I’m not good enough.

I know I am not alone in having a hard time to fit in society’s expectations.
I have a friend whose family are always asking her when she is going to ‘settle down and have kids’. Also, people often ask my teenage son, a talented photographer, whether he is looking for a ‘proper job’.

But recently I’ve realized that there is room in our world for many different kinds of people. There is not one way of being successful or happy – there are a million ways and all we have to do is find our way.

Finding your tribe is more important than ‘fitting in’

Honestly, if you have to change yourself to fit in with a group of friends, then they are the wrong friends for you. That doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with them, they are just not a good fit for you.

Instead of changing to meet the expectations of others, spend your energy on finding your tribe: the people that think in a similar way to you, have similar values to you and like to do the things that you like to do.

Finding your tribe is like coming home. Suddenly, you don’t have to pretend anymore. You can be yourself and others love and appreciate you just the way you are. The only thing you have to do is enjoy being who you are.

You can find your tribe online, by joining groups with interests that inspire you, or out in the world by following hobbies or helping causes that are close to your heart. I have found my tribe in the online writing community and by joining a local conservation group that protects the woodland near my home.

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Bottom Up

  • True or False
  1. The author thinks that she’s alone in having a hard time to fit in society’s expectations.
  2. According to the text, some people don’t think that being a photographer is a proper job.
  3. There is only one way of being successful or happy.
  4. You don’t have to change who you are to find friends.
  5. Once you find your tribe, you don’t have to pretend anymore. 
  1. The author thinks that she’s alone in having a hard time to fit in society’s expectations. False
  2. According to the text, some people don’t think that being a photographer is a proper job. True
  3. There is only one way of being successful or happy. False
  4. You don’t have to change who you are to find friends. True
  5. Once you find your tribe, you don’t have to pretend anymore. True

Post

  • What are ways of respecting yourself?

Target Language

Expressing obligations

  • Affirmative: Have to / Has to + verb
  • Negative: Don’t have to / Doesn’t have to
    • I have to go. > I don’t have to go.
    • You have to tell me! > You don’t have to tell me!
    • She has to clean her house. > She doesn’t have to clean her house.
    • He has to study for the Geography test. > He doesn’t have to study for the Geography test.
    • We have to give her a ride. > We don’t have to give her a ride.
    • You have to buy me a present. > You don’t have to buy me a present.
    • They have to go to bed at 9 p.m. > They don’t have to go to bed at 9 p.m.
  • Questions: Do/Does + Subject + Have to + Verb
    • Do you have to buy lunch?
    • Does she need to wash the dishes?
  • Answers
    • Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
    • Yes, she does. /  No, she doesn’t.

Things you have to know how to do

Controlled Practice

  • Match the words to their meanings. There is one example.

  1. Change a tire

  2. Negotiate

  3. Defend yourself

  4. Perform CPR

  5. Manage your time

(   ) The right to prevent suffering force or violence through the use of a sufficient level of counteracting force or violence.

(   ) Better use of one’s time.

(1) To replace a flat tire with one that is not flat.

(   ) A lifesaving technique that’s useful in many emergencies, such as a heart attack or near drowning.

(   ) To arrange or settle by discussion and mutual agreement.

  1. Change a tire

  2. Negotiate

  3. Defend yourself

  4. Perform CPR

  5. Manage your time

(3) The right to prevent suffering force or violence through the use of a sufficient level of counteracting force or violence.

(5) Better use of one’s time.

(1) To replace a flat tire with one that is not flat.

(4) A lifesaving technique that’s useful in many emergencies, such as a heart attack or near drowning.

(2) To arrange or settle by discussion and mutual agreement.

Freer Practice

  • Ask and answer the following questions.
    • What is something you have to learn?
    • What is something you have to forget?
    • What is something you have to do?
    • What is something you have to think about?
    • What is something you have to start?

 

Production

  • Create 7 sentences about things your best friend has to do/tell/have … Remember to use the Target Language.

Example: My best friend has to tell me everything about…

Homework

Choose the best option for each sentence.

Example: She doesn’t needs / need to. > She doesn’t need to.

  1. You have to go to / at the doctor today!
  2. They have to folow / follow the rules.
  3. Me and Sophia have / has to go now.
  4. She needs to understand / understands that she has to clean her kitchen every other day.
  5. He doesn’t has / have to stay.
  1. You have to go to the doctor today!
  2. They have to follow the rules.
  3. Me and Sophia have to go now.
  4. She needs to understand that she has to clean her kitchen every other day.
  5. He doesn’t have to stay.

Complete the blank spaces using the given words

HAS – HAVE – DON’T – DOESN’T – HE – SHE

Example: ____ needs to go. > She needs to go.

  1. If you think my room is messy, you ____ to see his.
  2. Tristan ____ have to learn Math anymore.
  3. ____ has to see a therapist.
  4. They ____ need to hurry anymore.
  5. Janice ____ to work today.
  1. If you think my room is messy, you have to see his.
  2. Tristan doesn’t have to learn Math anymore.
  3. He has to see a therapist.
  4. They don’t need to hurry anymore.
  5. Janice has to work today.

Complete the blank spaces using expressions from the target language.

Example: If you ____ you can eat it. > If you cook an egg you can eat it.

  1. Check your car and ____.
  2. Stop being late! You have to ____.
  3. When we try to ____ with you, you start to yell. It’s not personal.
  4. If you feel lonely, you have to ____.
  5. If you want to have kids you have to learn how to ____ so they don’t get bored.
  1. Check your car and change a tire.
  2. Stop being late! You have to manage your time.
  3. When we try to negotiate with you, you start to yell. It’s not personal.
  4. If you feel lonely, you have to meet new people.
  5. If you want to have kids you have to learn how to tell a good story so they don’t get bored.

Put the words in the correct order

Example: married / tomorrow. /  will / get / She > She will get married tomorrow.

  1. luggage. / has / her / excess / She / pay / to / for
  2. to / deal / with / They / vandalism. / have
  3. in / save / to / step / He / to / me. / has
  4. really / I / hard. / have / to / work
  5. We / songs / and / have / poems. / popular / pretty / to / write
  1. She has to pay excess for her luggage.
  2. They have to deal with vandalism.
  3. He has to step in to save me.
  4. I have to work really hard.
  5. We have to write popular songs and pretty poems.

Find and correct the mistakes.

Example: Selena Gomes have to sing in Brasilia. > Selena Gomes has to sing in Brasilia.

  1. They have to populates Earth.
  2. You have be spry.
  3. It have to be discontinued.
  4. You have to believe we!
  5. Demi Lovato has to runs the car to make the oil hot.
  1. They have to populate Earth.
  2. You have to be spry.
  3. It has to be discontinued.
  4. You have to believe us!
  5. Demi Lovato has to run the car to make the oil hot.

Writing

Write a short text about things you have to do every morning.

Example: I have to brush my teeth and…