Unit

Family Life
OBJECTIVES
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By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Read for specific information in a text about the benefits of doing
housework for children
- Understand the topic-related words introduced in previous lessons
- Use the topic-related words in meaningful contexts

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LESSON 3

WARM-UP

GAME: Who's in charge?
PRE-READING

Task 1: Look at the picture and answer the
questions.
• Task 2: Read and tick.

WHILE-READING

• Task 3: Read the text again and answer
the questions.

POST-READING

CONSOLIDATION

READING

Task 4: Discuss the question.

• Wrap-up
• Homework

WARM-UP

How to play?
- Work in 4 groups.
- In 3 minutes, list down (as much as possible)
housework that you think mom, dad and kids usually
do.
- After you finish, 1 representative from each group
comes and writes on the board.
- The 1st group to finish says 'STOP THE BUS' and the
others stop writing.

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LESSON 3

READING

Benefits of doing housework

PRE-READING
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Work in pairs. Look at the picture and answer the questions.

1. What is each person in the picture doing?
  The mother is cooking; the father is laying the
table; the son is cleaning (vacuuming) the floor;
the daughter is washing vegetables.
2. Do you think that they are happy? Why or why
not?
 The people are happy because they are doing
housework together and all the family members
are sharing the household chores.

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LESSON 3

WARM-UP

GAME: Who's in charge?
PRE-READING

WHILE-READING

READING

Task 1: Look at the picture and answer the
questions.
• Task 2: Read and tick.
• Task 3: Read the text again and answer
the questions.

EX 2. Read the text and tick the appropriate meanings of the highlighted
words.

1. responsibility
a. duty
b. hobby
2. gratitude
a. the feeling of being great
b. the feeling of being grateful
3. strengthen
a. make something stronger
b. make something more difficult

4. bonds
a. close connections
b. common interests
5. character
a. qualities that make a person the
same as others
b. qualities that make a person
different from others

WHILE-READING

Vocabulary
1. responsible /rɪˈspɒnsəbəl/ (adj)

có trách nhiệm

2. gratitude /ˈɡrætɪtʃuːd/ (n)

lòng biết ơn

3. strengthen /ˈstreŋθən/ (v)

củng cố, làm mạnh

4. bond /bɒnd/ (n)

mối liên kết

5. character /ˈkærəktər/ (n)

tính cách

WHILE-READING
3

Read the text again and answer the questions.

1. What do most people think about housework?
2. Why don't many parents make their children do housework?
3. What are some important life skills children can learn when doing
housework?
4. What do children learn as they finish household tasks that they don't
enjoy?
5. Why does sharing housework strengthen family bonds?

Ex 3. Read the text again and answer the questions.

1. What do most people think about housework?
 Most people think that housework is boring and is the responsibility of wives
and mothers only.

2. Why don't many parents make their children do housework?
 They want to give their children more time to play or study.
3. What are some important life skills children can learn when doing housework?
 These are doing the laundry, cleaning the house, and taking care of others.
4. What do children learn as they finish household tasks that they don't enjoy?
 They learn to take responsibility. They know that they have to try to finish
their tasks even though they do not enjoy doing them

5. Why does sharing housework strengthen family bonds?
 Doing chores together helps strengthen family bonds, create special moments

between children and parents. It makes children feel they are members of a team.

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LESSON 3

WARM-UP

READING
GAME: Who's in charge?

PRE-READING

Task 1: Look at the picture and answer the
questions.
• Task 2: Read and tick.

WHILE-READING

• Task 3: Read the text again and answer
the questions.

POST-READING

Task 4: Discuss the question.

POST-READING
Ex 4. Work in pairs. Discuss the question.

What benefits do you think you can
get from sharing housework?
- helps strengthen family bonds.
-make us feel less tired and equal.
-create special moments between children and
parents.
-feel responsible for our family.
-make children feel they are members of a team.

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LESSON 3

WARM-UP

GAME: Who's in charge?
PRE-READING

Task 1: Look at the picture and answer the
questions.
• Task 2: Read and tick.

WHILE-READING

• Task 3: Read the text again and answer
the questions.

POST-READING

CONSOLIDATION

READING

Task 4: Discuss the question.

• Wrap-up
• Homework

CONSOLIDATION

1 Wrap-up
What have we learnt today?
- Read for specific information in a text about the benefits of doing housework for
children
- Understand the topic-related words introduced in previous lessons
- Use the topic-related words in meaningful contexts

CONSOLIDATION

2 Homework
• Do exercises in the workbook
• Prepare for the next lesson: Speaking

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