Warm up
Play a game
Tell the role of the Tell the role of the
mother in a family father in a family
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Read the passage and do the tasks that follow
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‘Task 1: Choose the sentence A, B or C that 1s nearest in meaning to the sentence given
1 He doesn’t come home until very late at night A He never comes home late at night
B He comes home late at night
C He sometimes comes home late at night
2 “Men build the house and women make it home”
A Both men and women are good at building houses B Men and women have to live separately
C Men’s responsibility is to work and support the family and women’ job is to look after the family
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3 Our parents join hands to give us a nice house and a happy
home
A Our parents work together to give us a nice house and a happy home
B Our parents take each other’s hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home
C Our parents shake hands when they give us a nice house
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4 The boys are mischievous sometimes
A The boys are well-behaved sometimes
B The boys enjoy playing tricks and annoying people sometimes
C The boy miss their parents sometimes 5 We are very close-knit family
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‘Task 2: Answer the questions
| How busy are the parents in the passage’?
2 How caring is the mother’?
3 How do the father and the daughter share the household chores?
4 What is the daughter attempting to do after secondary school?
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| How busy are the parents 1n the passage?
Very busy They have to work long hours and sometimes they have to work at night
2 How caring is the mother?
She is always the first one to get up in the morning to make sure that her children leave home for school having eaten breakfast and dressed in suitable clothes She always makes dinner ready
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3 How do the father and the daughter share the household chores? The daughter helps with household chores: she washes the dishes
and takes out the garbage She also looks after the boys The father sometimes cooks or mends things around the house at weekends 4 What is the daughter attempting to do after secondary school?
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Work in groups Compare the family described in the text with your own family
Suggested questions:
1 How many people are there in your family?
2 What do you think about the role of the mother, the father in a family?
3 How caring is your mother?
4 Do you and your sister (brother) feel safe and secure in your family? Why?
Does your father share the household chores? How’
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