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What do the members in family share the household chores?
Which are household chores? Name them.
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Unit 1: FAMILY LIFE
Lesson 3: Reading
Sharing housework
Look at the picture then answer the question
- psychologist /saɪˈkɒlədʒist/ a scientist who studies the mind and
how it influences people’s behaviour
- enormous /ɪˈnɔːməs/ (adj) : very large/big
- sociable /ˈsəʊʃəbl/ (adj) : friendly
- tend  /tend/ (v) likely to behave in a particular way
- vulnerable /ˈvʌlnərəbl/ (a) able to be easily hurt
- critical /ˈkrɪtɪkl/ (a) saying that something is bad
SHARING HOUSEWORK
1. Vocabulary:
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SHARING HOUSEWORK
2. READING
LET’S READ!
a. Doing Housework is Good for Children
b. Husbands Who Share Housework Make Their
Wives Happy
c. Sharing Housework Makes the Family Happier
3.1. Choose the best title for the text.
3. TASK
SHARING HOUSEWORK
a. What does “it” in line 11 (line 14 on the screen) mean ...?
A. women feeling happy
B. women seeing their husbands doing housework
C. the husbands doing housework

b. What does “it” in line 14 ( line 17 on the screen) mean ...? 
A. a good example for children
B. everyone working together in the house
C. a positive family atmosphere

3. TASK
SHARING HOUSEWORK
3.2. Multiple choice
How do children benefit from sharing housework?
Why do men tend to have better relationships with their wives when they share housework?
What may happen to women whose husbands do not contribute to the household chores?
How does the family benefit when everyone works together on household chores?
3.3. Answer the questions.
SHARING HOUSEWORK
* Homework:
- Learn all the new words.
- Prepare for the next lesson:
Unit 1: Speaking.