English 10 UNIT 1 FAMILY LIFE WRITING

What happens when family members share housework? Many hands make light work... Unit 1: Family life Lesson 6 : Writing Many hands make light work... Mending things around the house, cl

How do the people in the following pictures feel?

They feel exhausted.

They feel happy.

What happens when family members share housework?

 Many hands make light work.

Unit 1: Family life

Lesson 6 : Writing

Many hands make light work

Task 1 Discuss the meaning of the saying below.

Task 2 Read the text and complete the chart

Mending things around the house,

cleaning the bathroom

Doing most of the cooking and grocery shopping

Doing the laundry, taking out the rubbish and cleaning the fridge, laying the table for meals, sweeping the house and feeding the cat (share with sister

Helping mum prepare meals and washing the dishes, laying the table for meals, sweeping the house and feeding the cat (share with brother)

Task 3. Answer the questions.

1 How many people are there in Lam's family?

2 Why are they very busy?

3 How do they split the housework in the family?

4 What household chores does each member of the family do?

5 Do the family members enjoy the housework?

6 What are the benefits of everyone in the family sharing the housework?

 There are four people in Lam’s family.

 Because both parents work and the children spend most of their time at school.

 They split the housework equally in the family

 The father mends things around the house and cleans the bathroom; the mother

does most of the cooking and grocery shopping; Lam does the laundry, takes the trash and cleans the fridge once a week; An helps her mother to prepare meals and washes the dishes; Lam and An take turns laying the table for meals,

sweeping the house, and feeding the cat.

 Yes, they do They do it willingly.

 The burden is less, so everyone has time to relax.

Task 4 Make your family chore chart

Task 5: Using the household chores chart in Task 4 and the

answers in Task 3, write a paragraph about how people in

your family share housework

The paragraph can consist of three parts

Part 1: Introduction to the family: how

many people, who the members are,

(question 1&2)

Part 2: How the family members share the

housework, what each of them does

(question 3&4)

Part 3: What family members think of doing

housework (question 5&6)

Sample writing

There are four people in my family: my parents, my

older brother and I We are all very busy people, so

we divide/ split the household chores equally My

Mom does cooks, cleans the room and shops for

grocery My Dad does the hard stuff like lifting heavy things and repairs work like fixing plumbing and

electricity My older brother takes out the rubbish,

cleans the house and feeds the dogs And me, I do the washing-up, do the laundry and water the flowers In

my family, every member contributes to making the

home a beautiful and happy place to live in.

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