Unit 1. Home life

A. READING
UNIT 1
HOMELIFE
NGO GIA TU HIGH SCHOOL
A. Before you read: Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions about the picture.
1. Where is the family?
2. What is each member of the family doing?
3. Is the family happy? Why (not)?
night shift (n): Ca đêm
biologist (n): Nhà sinh học – Biology- Bioligical
join (v): Tham gia = take part in
responsibility (n): Trách nhiệm – responsible
attempt (n): Cố gắng = effort
garbage (n): rác
look after (v): Chăm sóc
mischievous (a): Tinh nghịch
obedient (a): Vâng lời
hard-working (a): Chăm chỉ
supportive (a): Ủng hộ - support (v)
come up (v): Xảy ra = Happen
confidence (a): Tự tin – confident (a)
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Vocabulary
Task 1. 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.
He never comes home late at night.
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.
Our parents work together to give us a nice house and a happy home.
Our parents take each other’s hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home.
Our parents shake hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home.
4. The boys are mischievous sometimes.
The boys are well-behaved sometimes.
The boys enjoy playing tricks and annoying people sometimes.
The boys miss their parents sometimes.
5. We are a very close-knit family.
Members of our family have very close relationships with each other.
Members of our family need each other.
Members of our family are never close to each other.
Task 2. Answer the questions.
5. Why do the children feel they are safe and secure in their family?
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?
1. Very busy. They have to work long hours and sometimes they have to work at night.
2. She is always the first one to get up in the morning to make sure that her children leave home for school with breakfast and in suitable clothes. She always makes dinner ready before her husband comes home.
3. The daughter helps with household chores: she washes the dishes and takes out the garbage. She also looks after the boys. The father sometimes cooks or mends things around the house at weekends.
4. She is attempting to win a place university.
5. Because they are a very close-knit family and very supportive of one another. They often share our feelings, and whenever problems come up, they discuss them frankly and find solutions quickly.
HOMEWORK
Write a short paragraph,
describing your own family.
Thank you for your attention!
Goodbye!