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PERIOD 3
HOME LIFE
UNIT 1
LESSON 1: READING
Before you read
Work in pairs. Ask and answer these questions about the picture.
1. Where is the family?
2. What is each number of the family doing?
3. Is the family happy? Why not?
While you read
Vocabulary:
Read the passage and do the tasks that follow.
While you read
Task 1: Choose the sentence A, B or C that is 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.

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.
B. He comes home late at night.
C. Men’s responsibility is to work and support the
family and women’ job is to look after the family.
While you read
3. Our parents join hands 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
and a happy home.
A. Our parents work together to give us a nice house and a
happy home
While you read
4. The boys are mischievous sometimes.
A. The boys are well-behaved sometimes.


C. The boy miss their parents sometimes.
5. We are very close-knit family.


B. Members of our family need each other.
C. Members of our family are never close to each other.
B. The boys enjoy playing tricks and annoying people
sometimes.
A. Members of our family have very close relationships with
each other.
While you read
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?
While you read
1. How busy are the parents in 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 before her husband comes home.
While you read
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?
She attemps to win a place at university.
While you read
5. Why do the children feel they are safe and secure in their family?
Because they 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.
After you read
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?
5. Does your father share the household chores? How?
Consolidation
Talk about your family - Work and role of each member in a family
Fill in some suitable words and say!
I come from a ________ family of _______ people including my parents, _________ and _______. My mother is ______________ and my father is __________. My parents go to work, but when they come home they join hands ____________ and teach all of us. We love our parents, too. We are _________________ family. We always feel homesick whenever we go far. In fact, east or west, home is the best. There is no place like home.
READ THIS PARAGRAPH
I come from a small family of five people including my parents, two younger brothers and I/me. My mother is a nurse and my father is a biologist. My parents go to work, but when they come home they join hands to do the household chores and teach all of us. We love our parents, too. We are very close-knit family. We always feel homesick whenever we go far. In fact, east or west, home is the best. There is no place like home.
Homework
+ Learn the new words.
+ Describe your family. Work and role
of each member in your family
THANK YOU
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