Unit 1. Home life

Unit 1. Home life tài liệu, giáo án, bài giảng , luận văn, luận án, đồ án, bài tập lớn về tất cả các lĩnh vực kinh tế, k...

Short introduction and

definitions to types of family.

• Shift (n):

• Join hands:

• Give a hand :

• Be willing to :

• Be under a lot of

study pressure

• Household chores

• Mischievous (a)

• Obedient (a)

• Ca , kíp

• Cùng nhau

• Giúp một tay

• Sẵn sàng

• Dưới áp lực học hành

• Công việc nhà

• Tinh nghịch

• Vâng lời , nghe lời

1 Shift (n):

2 Join hands:

3 Give a hand :

4 Be willing to :

5 Be under a lot of

study pressure

6 Household chores

7 Mischievous (a)

8 Obedient (a)

A Sẵng sàng

B Công việc nhà

C Ca , kíp

D Giúp một tay

E Tinh nghịch

F Vâng lời , nghe lời

G Dưới áp lực

học hành

H Cùng nhau

Task 1: (Page 14) PAIR WORK

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.

B He 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.

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 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.

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 relationships with each other.

B Members of our

family need each other.

C Members of our

family are never

close to each

other.

Match the underlined word(s) or phrase(s) in column A and the explanation in column B

1 Both parents join hands to feed

children and send them to

school.

2 In her family her mother is a

caring mother.

3 She tries to help her parents

with the household chores

4 Her younger brothers are quite

active and mischievous

sometimes.

5 At home, her responsibility is to

wash the dishes and take out

the garbage.

6 We are a very close-knit family

a kind, helpful and showing that one cares about other people.

b duty

c Causing minor trouble; badly behaved

d having a very close relationship; strongly united

e housework

f work together in doing something

Answers: 1f 2a 3e 4c 5b 6d

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?

Task 2 Answer the questions

2.How caring is the mother?

 Very busy They have to work long hours and sometimes they have to work at night.

 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.

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

4.What is the daughter attempting to

do after secondary school?

 The daughter helps with household chores: she washes the dishes and takes out the garbage She also looks after her younger brothers The father sometimes cooks or mends things around the house at weekends

 She attempts to win a place at university.

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.

Fill in some suitable words to complete the summary of the reading passage.

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

small five two younger brothers I (me)

a nurse a biologist

to do the household chores

very close-knit

• Prepare speaking lesson (talk about the families)

Nuclear family

Nuclear family

consists of the

father, the

mother, and

the children.

Extended family

Extended family

consists of the

grandparents,

aunts, uncles,

cousins, nieces,

nephews, and

in-laws, (relatives

through marriage).

SINGLE PARENT FAMILY

+ A single parent family

consists of the children

and one parent either the

father or the mother

+ In the US, single parent

families are popular

+ In Viet Nam, there are

more and more the type

of single families

BLENDED FAMILIES OR

STEPFAMILIES

- A family in which both parents have been

divorced, each with their own children they remarry and bring both sets

chilren into the marriage + It consists of

stepparents, stepsister, stepbrother, halfbrother and half sister