Look at the picture and answer the questions:

1. Where is the family?
2. What is each member of the family
doing?
3. Is the family happy? Why (not) ?

1. Where is the family?
 The family is at home.
2. What is each member of the family doing?
 The father and the son is play game each other. The
mother is helping her daughter do the exercises.
3. Is the family happy? Why (not) ?
 Yes, it is. Because the family members are very
close-knit.

1. shift (n)
2. join hand = work together (v)
3. caring (a)
4. responsibility (n) :
 take/ assume the responsibility for
5. give a hand with = help (v)
6. under pressure
7. take out (v)
8. obedient (a) >< mischievous (a)
9. supportive of (a)
10. close-knit (a)
11. household chores = domestic chores = housework (n)
12. be willing to + Vbare
13. rush (v)

Task 1: Read the text and choose A, B that is nearest in meaning to the sentence given:

1. He doesn't come home until very late last night.
A. He never comes home late last night.
B. He comes home late at night.
C. He sometimes comes home late last 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's job is to
look after the family.

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 hand when they give us a nice house and a
happy home.
C. Our parents shake hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home.
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 boys miss their parents sometimes
5. We are very close – knit family.
A. Members of our family have very close relationship with each other.
B. Members of our family need each other
C. Members of our family are never close to each other.

TASK 2- Answer the questions:
1. 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?
5. Why do the children feel they are safe and secure in their
family?

1. How busy are the parents in the
passage?

They are very busy. They have to work long hours an
work at night sometimes.

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 dress in suitable
clothes. After work, she hurries home so that dinner
is ready by the dad gets home.

3. How do the father and the daughter share the household
chores?

The father gives a hand with cleaning the house and
sometimes cooks some special dishes. The daughter
does household chores: washing the dishes, taking out
the garbage and looking after the boys.

4. What is the daughter attempting to do after secondary
school?

She is attempting to win a place at university.

5. Why do the children feel they are safe and secure in
their family?
Because their members family are very close-knit
and supportive of one another. They often share
their feelings and whenever problems come up, they
discuss them frankly and find solutions quickly.

Compare the family described in the text with your
own family:
1. How many people are there in your family?
2. What does each member of your family do?
3. How does each member of your family share the
household chores?

HOMEWORK
- Learn by heart the new words
- Do exercises in the handouts
- Prepare the next lesson

HOMEWORK

I. Multiple choice:
1. Does your father -------------a hand with cleaning the house ?
A. work
B. give
C. try
D. take
2. She has been very------------during my illness.
A. supporting B. support C. supportive
D. supported
3. My mother takes the-------------for running the household.
A. task
B. duty
C. responsibility
D. ability
4. Every member of a family should share--------with each other.
A. household chores
B. family works
C. domestic jobs
D. internal affairs
5. In my family, both my parents join ___ to give us a nice house and a happy house.
A. hand
B. a hand
C. hands
D. their hands
6. My responsibility is to wash the dishes and ___ the garbage.
A. take up
B. get out
C. get up D. take out
7. He was looking at his parents _____, waiting for recommendations.
A. obey
B. obedience C. obedient D. obediently

8. Some candidates failed the oral examination because they didn't have enough _____
A. confide B. confident C. confidence D. confidential
9. A scientist who studies living things is a ______.
A. biology B. biologically C. biologist
D. biological
10. My dad is a _____ person, always attentive to every family member.
A. caring
B. careful
C. careless
D. carefree

II. Reading: Choose the best answer
The United States has many different types of families. While most American families are
traditional, (1)_______ a father, a mother and one or more children, 22 percent of all
American families in 1998 were headed by one parent, usually a woman. In a few families
in the United States, there are no children. These (2) _______ couples may believe that they
would not make good parents; they may want freedom from responsibilities of
childbearing; or, perhaps they (3)_______ physically able to have children. Other families
in the United States have one adult (4)_______ a stepparent. A stepmother or stepfather is a
person who joins a family by marrying a father or a mother.
Americans tolerate and accept these different types of families. In the United States
people have right to privacy and Americans do not believe in telling other Americans what
type of family group they must belong to. They respect each other's choices regarding
family groups. Families are very important (5)______ Americans.
1. A. consist of
B. consisting of
C. consisting
D. including of
2. A. childish
B. childlike
C. childless
D. childhood
3. A. are not
B. can't
C. couldn't
D. weren't
4. A. who is
B. is
C. which is
D. which has
5. A. for
B. of
C. in
D. to