unit 15. wrting

Pre - writing* Who does more housework in your family?. * How many hours per day/week does your mother/father spend on doing housework?. * Do you think the number of children will affect

Warm up

Playing game: Crossword

Pre - writing

* Who does more housework in your family? Your mother or your father?

* How many hours per day/week does your mother/father spend on doing housework?

* Do you think the number of children will affect to the time doing housework ? Why?

30

40

50

60

Housework hours per week

Married women

Married men

30

20

50

15

55

hours

Task 1: Work in groups The chart below shows the average hours of housework per week by people of different sexes and with different

marital status in Fantasia Look at the chart then answer the questions by playing the game “ Lucky number”

Lucky number

6

5

3

4

The answers

1 In general, married women do more housework than men do

2 They have to do more housework when they have more children

3 Married men have to do less housework when they have more children

4 Married men and women without children spend 20 and 30 hours on their housework per week respectively

5 It take men and women with one or two children 15 and 50 hours

respectively to do their housework every week

6 They are 10 to 50

7 Married men should spend more time sharing the housework with their wives

Task 2 Work in pairs

Task 3: Write a report describing the

information shown in the column chart in Task

1 begin your report with

The column chart illustrates the average hours of housework per week

done by married women in comparison with married men.

………

………

………

………

………

………

………

• Write a short passage talking about the

reason why men do less housework than women when having more children.