Unit 1. Home life

WELCOME TO DAI MO HIGH SCHOOL
Teacher: Pham Quoc Khanh
GRADE 12
Short introduction and
definitions to types of family.
UNIT 1
HOME LIFE
A. READING
Vocabulary
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
Shift (n):
Join hands:
Give a hand :
Be willing to :
Be under a lot of study pressure
Household chores
Mischievous (a)
Obedient (a)
Sẵng sàng
Công việc nhà
Ca , kíp
Giúp một tay
Tinh nghịch
Vâng lời , nghe lời
Dưới áp lực
học hành
Cùng nhau
MATCHING
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
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
How busy are the parents in the passage?
How caring is the mother?
How do the father and the daughter share the household chores?
What is the daughter attempting to do after secondary school?
Why do the children feel they are safe and secure in their family?
How busy are the parents in the passage?
Task 2. Answer the questions
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.
How do the father and the daughter share the household chores?
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.




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)
HOMEWORK
Thanks for your attention
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.