Awareness

Lead-in

  • What would you say to someone visiting your country about how to show good manners in Brazil?
  • What examples of good manners can you think of?
  • What about bad manners?

Presentation

Pre

  • Use your own words to explain the following quote. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
? Patrick Rothfuss

Top Down

  • Of the stages of human development, which one is the target of the text? Read it and find out.
  • Infancy
  • Childhood
  • Adolescence
  • Adulthood
  • Infancy
  • Childhood
  • Adolescence
  • Adulthood

The Importance of Awareness

The ability to be attuned to and aware of others is an essential element of the social communication required for healthy development. As your child grows, he becomes more aware of the complexities of others by watching, listening, and forming friendships. He learns about joining with others to form groups, and, in doing so, learns how he is like them and how he is unique. This developing awareness requires experiences rich in diversity — spending time with people of different ages, interests, ethnicities, and with distinct strengths and vulnerabilities. Each relationship adds to an internal catalogue that we use to form our view of the world.

How the Brain Stores Interpersonal Experiences

When organizing the wide variety of human relationships we develop, the brain uses a set of rules to make this infinitely complex process easier. These rules — association and generalization — are allowed by the brain’s amazing capacity to store experience and create memories.

Memory allows us to create our catalogue of interpersonal experiences — good and bad. When we have a new experience, the incoming sensory information is matched against our stored catalogue of previous interactions and people. If their dress, language, skin color, and gestures are familiar, they will more likely be viewed as positive. If they’re unfamiliar, they may be categorically judged — usually in a negative way.

Signs That a Child Needs Support

Children who are struggling with awareness may tease other children about sensitive characteristics such as their weight, religion, ethnicity, or a handicap. Some teasing is expected and normal in young children, but it is important to make sure it does not cross certain boundaries. These children often see things in absolutes (“Fat people are lazy”) and form ideas about others based on stereotypes.

Children struggling with awareness often are also having trouble with affiliation and try to create groups by attacking others and finding those who share their hatreds.
 
Promoting Awareness in Young Children

  • Model awareness in your actions and words. Talk out loud to let your child hear how you think through a stereotype. “Gosh, you wouldn’t think that this really big, kind of overweight guy would win the Olympic gold medal in wrestling, would you? But he did.”
  • Discuss stereotypes. Ask your child to share his thoughts. What are they? Where do they come from? Are they fair? Why or why not?
  • Encourage children to get to know a variety of people. Provide opportunities for your child to spend time with the elderly, and, if possible, children and adults from different cultures, religions, races, and who speak different languages.
  • Point out the diversity around you. Talk with your child about the different types of people in your community. “What languages do most people speak in our town?” “How many different cultures do you see in our neighborhood?” “How many tall children do you know? How many short ones?”

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Bottom Up

  • True or False?

Example: The text mentions at least one stereotype. True

  1. Humans usually become aware of how society works in general by watching, listening, and forming friendships.
  2. Diversity is extremely important on developing awareness.
  3. Memory allows us to create our catalogue of experiences, mostly good ones.
  4. Children who are struggling with awareness may become bullies.
  5. Discussing stereotypes is important. Parents should ask and talk about them with their kids.
  1. Humans usually become aware of how society works in general by watching, listening, and forming friendships. True
  2. Diversity is extremely important on developing awareness. True
  3. Memory allows us to create our catalogue of experiences, mostly good ones. False
  4. Children who are struggling with awareness may become bullies. True
  5. Discussing stereotypes is important. Parents should ask and talk about them with their kids. True

Post

  • Do you agree with the text? Why or why not?
  • What would you add to this text in order to help a kid become aware?

Target Language

Using Suffixes to Form Nouns

It is possible to add suffixes to words so that they become nouns.

Verb + Suffix:

  • perform + ance = performance
  • attract + tion = attraction
  • develop + ment = development
  • prefer+ ence = preference

Adjective + Suffix:

  • aware + ness = awareness
  • creative + ity = creativity
  • forgetful + ness = forgetfulness

Noun + Suffix:

  • partner + ship = partnership
  • friend + ship = friendship
  • relation + ship = relationship

Verb Patterns

Verb + to infinitive:

  • The new traffic system aims to reduce the traffic jams during rush hours.
  • We plan to stay in and binge watch series tonight.
  • She hopes to get a promotion, that’s why she’s working so hard lately.

Verb + object + to infinitive:

  • It is the shape of the airplane’s wings that enables it to sustain itself in midair.
  • The new teacher allows the students to research on the web during the test.
  • My parents warned me not to hang out with the likes of you.

Verb + object + base form:

  • Tom, help your brother do the cleaning, otherwise both of you will be grounded.
  • My boss made me work overtime last night, I’m so pissed off.
  • Sorry, guys. My mom didn’t let me go out today because I got bad grades in Math.

Controlled Practice

  • Add the correct suffix.

ITY – SHIP – MENT – ANCE or NESS.

Example: Empower > Empowerment

  1. Appear
  2. Electric
  3. Employ
  4. Minor
  1. Leader
  2. Humble
  3. Enchant
  1. Appearance
  2. Electricity
  3. Employment
  4. Minority
  1. Leadership
  2. Humbleness
  3. Enchantment

Freer Practice

  • Create sentences using the following:
    • Rock bands – performance
    • Artists – criativity
    • Humans – relationship
    • We – development
    • Adults – forgetfulness
    • My best friends – preference

Production

  • Create 3 examples for each rule from the target language.

Example: Verb + object + base form > My mom made me clean her whole house.

  • Verb + to infinitive
  • Verb + object + to infinitive
  • Verb + object + base form

Homework

Check the target language and add the correct suffix to the following verbs.

Example: Empower > Empowerment

  1. Attend
  2. Postpone
  3. Require
  4. Sweet
  5. Creative
  1. Citizen
  2. Define
  3. Mature
  4. Fearless
  5. Require
  1. Attendance
  2. Postponement
  3. Requirement
  4. Sweetness
  5. Creativity
  1. Citizenship
  2. Definition
  3. Maturity
  4. Fearlessness
  5. Requirement

Match the nouns with their respective definitions. There is one example.

  1. Fearlessness

  2. Requirement

  3. Attendance

  4. Postponement

  5. Citizenship

  6. Empowerment

(   ) The action or state of going regularly to or being present at a place or event.

(   ) Lack of fear.

(   ) The action of postponing something; deferral.

(6) Authority or power given to someone to do something.

(   ) A thing that is compulsory; a necessary condition.

(   ) The position or status of being a citizen of a particular country.

  1. Fearlessness

  2. Requirement

  3. Attendance

  4. Postponement

  5. Citizenship

  6. Empowerment

(3) The action or state of going regularly to or being present at a place or event.

(1) Lack of fear.

(4) The action of postponing something; deferral.

(6) Authority or power given to someone to do something.

(2) A thing that is compulsory; a necessary condition.

(5) The position or status of being a citizen of a particular country.

Using the words from the previous exercise, complete the sentences.

Example: In short, everyone would have a similar combination of ____ and quality of life benefits. > In short, everyone would have a similar combination of empowerment and quality of life benefits.

  1. What I admired most about this book was the writer’s ____ in portraying herself truthfully.
  2. We compensated participants with movie tickets and raffles for prizes for the completion of measures and ____ at the workshop.
  3. How could you have possibly not noticed the absence of such a fundamental ____?
  4. The law was amended before it was passed, making ____ available to residents who passed Estonian language tests.
  5. The severity of the global crisis led to a ____ of startup of the plant.
  1. What I admired most about this book was the writer’s fearlessness in portraying herself truthfully.
  2. We compensated participants with movie tickets and raffles for prizes for the completion of measures and attendance at the workshop.
  3. How could you have possibly not noticed the absence of such a fundamental requirement?
  4. The law was amended before it was passed, making citizenship available to residents who passed Estonian language tests.
  5. The severity of the global crisis led to a postponement of startup of the plant.

Analyze the sentences and match them with the correct verb pattern. There is one example.

  1. Verb + to infinitive

  2. Verb + object + to infinitive

  3. Verb + object + base form

(   ) He had no plans to return to the game in any capacity.

(   ) He told me to keep my hands off those applications.

(1) You try to get an experimental service running and no one will reconfigure the firewall.

(   ) This act made me cry instantly.

(   ) It does not stop me to live the life I want.

  1. Verb + to infinitive

  2. Verb + object + to infinitive

  3. Verb + object + base form

(1) He plans to return to the game as soon as possible.

(2) He told me to keep my hands off those applications.

(1) You try to get an experimental service running and no one will reconfigure the firewall.

(3) This act made me cry instantly.

(2) It does not stop me to live the life I want.

Find and correct the mistakes.

  1. I went in to try to get the line of demarcacion between an inventor and a composer.
  2. Something I saw made laugh out aloud.
  3. They told me to lye quietly in bed this morning.
  4. The Blackstone Group has plans dominate the world’s amusement parks.
  5. These men had probably met to consider the cause of this postponment.
  1. I went in to try to get the line of demarcation between an inventor and a composer.
  2. Something I saw made me laugh out aloud.
  3. They told me to lie quietly in bed this morning.
  4. The Blackstone Group has plans to dominate the world’s amusement parks.
  5. These men had probably met to consider the cause of this postponement.

Writing

Write about the importance of good manners and a situation you had envolving someone that showed bad manners.

Example: Once a woman cut the line in front of me and…