Unit 01. Family Life. Lesson 6. Writing

Thursday, August, 25th 2016
Warmly welcome to our class
Designed by Doan Thi Huong Thao
Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Know how to write a paragraph about family chores
Write about how each member of their family contributes to doing housework
Develop the writing skill in general
Build up vocabulary supported for writing
Discussion
“Many hands make light work”
Do you agree with this saying”?
How does this saying apply to doing housework in the family?
Read the text about lam’s family and complete the chore chart
I live in a family of four: my parents, my younger sister and I. We are all very busy people: both my parents work, my sister and I spend most of our time at school, so we split the household chores equally.
My dad is responsible for mending things around the house. He also cleans the bathroom twice a week. My mum does most of the cooking and grocery shopping.
Being the elder child in the family, I take up a large share of housework. I do the laundry, take out the rubbish, and clean the fridge once a week. My younger sister An’s responsibilities include helping my mum to prepare meal and washing the dishes. My sister and I take turns laying the table for meals, sweeping the house, and feeding the cat.
We do our share of housework willingly as we know that if everyone contributes, the burden is less and everyone can have some time to relax
Complete the household chore chart
Answer the questions
How many people are there in Lam’s family?
Why are they very busy?
How do they split the housework in the family?
What household chores does each member of the family do?
Do the family members enjoy the housework?
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 out the rubbish/ 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, do everyone has time to relax
Make your own family chore chart
Writing
The paragraph can consist of three parts;
A/ Introduction to the family: how many people, who the members are,..(question 1&2)
B/ How the family members share the housework, what each of them does (question 3&4)
C/ What family members think of doing housework (question 5&6)
Consolidation
What have you learnt today?
What can you do now?
Thanhks for your attention