Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice
PRO-LIFE VS. PRO-CHOICE
Practice English with your teacher
Warm-up
Talk about these questions with your teacher.
선생님과 이야기해 보세요.
- What aspect of today's topic challenges your existing assumptions the most?
- If you could change one thing about how society approaches this issue, what would it be?
Vocabulary
Listen and repeat after your teacher.
선생님을 따라 읽어보세요.
Reading
Read the passage with your teacher.
선생님과 함께 지문을 읽어보세요.
This is a message to those who try to prevent women from entering abortion clinics and carry big signs that say, “They Kill Babies Here!”Have any of you ever signed up to adopt a child? If not, why not? Is it because you don’t want one, can’t afford one, or don’t have the time, patience, or desire to raise one?What if a woman who was about to enter a family-planning clinic saw your sign and decided not to have an abortion after all but chose instead to give her baby up for adoption to you? Would you accept it? What if the mother belonged to a minority group ? or was addicted to drugs or tested positive for AIDS?Why are you spending your time carrying a sign? Why aren’t you volunteering to baby-sit a child born to a single mother, so she can work? Why haven’t you opened your door to a pregnant teenager whose parents kicked her out because she took your advice and decided not to have an abortion?As for you taxpayers who resent paying for abortions, who do you think pays for foster care, welfare, social workers, and juvenile delinquency?And let’s talk abut something money can’t buy: love. Have you ever visited a home for abused and unwanted children? Have you ever been to court and seen all the children who commit crimes because they were born to mothers who didn’t want them?I’m not thrilled about abortion, but I don’t think anyone has the right to tell others not to have one unless he has done all the things I mentioned above. Self-righteous hypocrisy does not solve any of the underlying problems.
Dialogue Practice
Practice the dialogue with your teacher.
선생님과 대화를 연습해 보세요.
- Does the writer side with the pro-life or pro-choice movement?
- According to the writer, what circumstances cause women to have abortions?
- What does the writer want pro-life demonstrators to do?
- Pro-life demonstrators grumble about tax money paid for abortions. Is this complaint logical?
Korean Trap! / 한국인 실수 교정
Common mistakes Korean speakers make.
한국인이 자주 하는 실수를 알아봅시다.
추상적인 개념(politics, music, love 등)에는 the를 쓰지 않습니다. 또한 'interest'는 셀 수 있는 명사로 'an'이 필요합니다.
Discussion
Share your thoughts with your teacher.
선생님과 의견을 나눠보세요.
- abortion: the ending of a pregnancy
- minority group: group other than the majority or dominant group, especially if socially discriminated against
- addicted: dependent on harmful, habit-forming substance
- baby-sit: take care of children in the temporary absence of the parents
- foster care: giving parental care to (somebody) not legally related
- juvenile delinquency: antisocial or criminal behavior by non-adults
- hypocrisy: the practice of showing or expressing feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not actually hold or possess
- underlying: basic; fundamental EXPRESSIONS1. tested positive
- single mother
- juvenile delinquency
- not thrilled about abortion
- If you are against abortion, don’t be a hypocrite.
Extra Practice
- Do you think we must concede that an unborn baby has the same rights as any human being?
- What’s the difference between killing an unborn baby and killing a man in battle?
- Is abortion an issue the government should intervene in, or something individuals must deal with by themselves?
- Is it justifiable for pro-life people to kill abortion-performing doctors, calling them murderers?
- Do you think a wife should have the right to have an abortion without the approval of the baby’s father?
- Are you mainly pro-life or pro-choice. Explain your answer.
Lesson Summary / 수업 요약
Today's Topic: PRO-LIFE VS. PRO-CHOICE
Level: High Advanced (H.A)
Review this lesson before your next class! / 다음 수업 전에 복습하세요!