Digital Parenting

This B2-level lesson takes a deep dive into the ethics of digital parenting, tackling real-world debates on tracking apps, social media limits, and online freedom. Students will watch a gripping video, dissect key vocabulary, and debate controversial statements like whether parents should spy on their kids or if strict rules only push teens to rebel. Engaging activities include analyzing different parenting styles and solving moral dilemmas. The lesson challenges students to take sides, defend their views, and explore the gray areas between safety and control. Expect heated discussions, surprising perspectives, and plenty of eye-opening moments.

Lead-in, Vocabulary match

This lesson on digital parenting begins with a hands-on activity where students design a daily schedule for a child, balancing key activities like homework, sports, video games, social media, and family time. They’ll discuss how priorities shift for children of different ages—comparing schedules for primary, middle, and high school students. This sparks a broader conversation about screen time, independence, and parental control. After this, students move on to a vocabulary-matching task, where they connect 12 definitions to the correct words, all essential for understanding the topic.

Video, Comprehension

Next, students watch a video titled The Pros and Cons of Digital Parenting, where multiple speakers share their perspectives on the topic. Their task is to listen carefully and note key details. After watching, they answer five comprehension questions to check their understanding. To deepen the discussion, students are encouraged to come up with their own questions, sparking further conversation about the challenges and benefits of digital parenting.

Synonyms, Agree or disagree

Afterward, students complete a practice page where they read sentences and choose the correct words based on the target vocabulary from the video. Following that, there’s a synonyms page where students compare words and highlight the subtle differences in meaning. Encourage students to create their own example sentences to demonstrate their understanding. The Agree or Disagree section presents six thought-provoking statements on digital parenting and parental control apps. Students must express their opinions and support them with personal or observed examples.

Questions, Types of parents

Next, there’s an extended speaking activity, diving deeper into topics like whether children can learn self-regulation and how parents should handle situations when kids defy digital rules. Finally, the Types of Parents section encourages students to guess the types of parents being described, such as tiger parents or helicopter parents, and to share real-life examples. The answers are provided on the next page to guide the discussion.

Extra

To wrap up, there’s an optional extra activity featuring a TV show episode related to the lesson topic. If you’d like, you can suggest students watch it in their free time and then share their thoughts or discuss it during the next session.