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Put More Babies Into Care: UK CharityA British children’s charity has recommended more babies should be put in care at birth. The chief executive of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, told the Observer newspaper there were too many young children at risk. He pointed to the large number of parents with poor parenting skills. He said children needed urgent protection and that it was time for social workers to stop trying to “fix families that can't be fixed". Mr. Narey told reporters: "If you can take a baby very young and get them quickly into a permanent adoptive home, then we know that this is where we have success." He understands his views are shocking, but believes society should put the interests of children first. Narey thinks this is better than giving violent parents a second chance.
Mr. Narey’s controversial comments come at a time when many cases of abused children have hit the headlines in the U.K. Most recently is the shocking case of two young brothers aged just 10 and 11. They attacked and left for dead two boys aged 11 and 9, causing them serious physical and mental damage. The two siblings had a very troubled childhood. Their mother gave them cannabis when they were toddlers and their father was a violent drunk. Social services took the brothers into care three weeks before their violent attack. Many say this was years too late. Another high profile case in Britain is that of “Baby P”. He died aged 17 months from over 50 different injuries. Social workers repeatedly failed to protect him.
WARM-UPS1. BABIES: Walk around the class and talk to other students about babies. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. PROTECTION: How can we provide more protection for these members of society? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share your ideas. Change again and share what you heard.
4. CARE: Students A strongly believe putting into care babies who have violent parents is the best solution; Students B strongly believe putting children into care is TOTALLY wrong. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. HEADLINE KIDS: What do kids hit the headlines for in your country? Talk about these with your partner(s). Rank them – the most headlines at the top. Change partners and share what you heard.
6. CHILDHOOD: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘childhood’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gapsA British children’s charity has recommended more ___________________ care at birth. The chief executive of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, told the Observer newspaper ___________________ young children at risk. He pointed to the large number of parents with poor parenting skills. He said children needed urgent protection ___________________ for social workers to stop trying to “fix families that can't be fixed". Mr. Narey told reporters: "If you can take a baby very young and get them quickly into a permanent adoptive home, then ___________________ is where we have success." He understands his views are shocking, but believes society should put the interests of children first. Narey ___________________ than giving violent parents ___________________. Mr. Narey’s controversial comments ___________________ when many cases of abused children have ___________________ in the U.K. Most recently is the shocking case of two young brothers aged just 10 and 11. They attacked ___________________ boys aged 11 and 9, causing them serious physical and mental damage. The two siblings had a _____________________. Their mother gave them cannabis when they were toddlers and their father was a violent drunk. Social services took the brothers into care three weeks before their violent attack. Many say this ___________________. Another high profile case in Britain is that of “Baby P”. He died aged 17 months from over 50 different injuries. Social workers repeatedly ___________________. AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘children’ and ‘charity’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
STUDENT BABIES SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about babies in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
BABIES DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICEA British children’s charity has (1) ____ more babies should be put in care at birth. The chief executive of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, told the Observer newspaper there were too many young children at (2) ____. He pointed to the large number of parents with poor parenting skills. He said children needed urgent protection and that it was time for social workers to stop trying to “fix families that can't be (3) ____ ". Mr. Narey told reporters: "If you can take a baby very young and get them (4) ____ into a permanent adoptive home, then we know that this is where we have (5) ____." He understands his views are shocking, but believes society should put the interests (6) ____ children first. Narey thinks this is better than giving violent parents a second chance. Mr. Narey’s controversial comments come at a time when many cases of abused children have (7) ____ the headlines in the U.K. Most recently is the shocking case of two young brothers aged (8) ____ 10 and 11. They attacked and left for dead two boys aged 11 and 9, causing them serious physical and mental damage. The two siblings had a very (9) ____ childhood. Their mother gave them cannabis when they were toddlers and their father was a violent (10) ____. Social services took the brothers into care three weeks before their violent attack. Many say this was years too late. Another (11) ____ profile case in Britain is that of “Baby P”. He died aged 17 months from over 50 different injuries. Social workers (12) ____ failed to protect him. Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITINGWrite about babies for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about the children’s charity Barnardo’s. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. BABIES: Make a poster about babies and how to look after them. Put the five most important things new parents need to know. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. IN CARE: Write a magazine article about a child in care. Include imaginary interviews with the child, its new parents and its real parents. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to Martin Narey. Ask him three questions about children in care. Give him three suggestions on what he should do for new parents. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Put more babies into care: UK charityA British children’s charity has recommended more babies should be put in care at birth. The chief executive of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, told the Observer newspaper there were too many young children at risk. He pointed to the large number of parents with poor parenting skills. He said children needed urgent protection and that it was time for social workers to stop trying to “fix families that can't be fixed". Mr. Narey told reporters: "If you can take a baby very young and get them quickly into a permanent adoptive home, then we know that this is where we have success. He understands his views are shocking, but believes society should put the interests of children first. Narey thinks this is better than giving violent parents a second chance. Mr. Narey’s controversial comments come at a time when many cases of abused children have hit the headlines in the U.K. Most recently is the shocking case of two young brothers aged just 10 and 11. They attacked and left for dead two boys aged 11 and 9, causing them serious physical and mental damage. The two siblings had a very troubled childhood. Their mother gave them cannabis when they were toddlers and their father was a violent drunk. Social services took the brothers into care three weeks before their violent attack. Many say this was years too late. Another high profile case in Britain is that of “Baby P”. He died aged 17 months from over 50 different injuries. Social workers repeatedly failed to protect him. LANGUAGE WORK
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