Unit 1. Home life

WELCOME TO OUR LESSON.
HOME LIFE
UNIT 1:
A. READING
Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions about the picture.
1.Where is the family?
2.What is each member doing?
3.Is the family happy? Why/why not?
4.Are there any pets? 5.What are they?
6.What are they doing?
7.Do you like having pets in your house?
8.What pets do you want to have?
Task1:
Choose the sentence A, B or C that
is nearest in meaning to the
sentence given.
He doesn’t come home until very late
at night.
A. He sometimes comes home late at night.
B. He never comes home late at night.
C. He comes home late at night.



2. “Men build the house and women make it home”
A. Men’s responsibility is to work and support the family and women’s job is to look after the family.
B. Both men and women are good at building houses.
C. Men and women have to live separately.
3. Our parents join hands to give us a nice house and a happy home.
A. Our parents shake hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home.
B. Our parents work together to give us a nice house and a happy home.
C. Our parents take each other’s hands when they give us a nice house and a happy home.
4.The boys are mischievous sometimes.
A. The boys enjoy playing tricks and annoying people sometimes.
B. The boys are well-behaved sometimes.
C. The boys miss their parents sometimes.
5. We are very close-knit family.
A. Members of our family are never close to each other.
B. Members of our family need each other.
C. Members of our family have very close relationships with each other.
Task 2:
Answer the questions.
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?
Why do the children feel they are safe and secure
in their family?
Lucky Color
How busy are the parents in the passage?
Very busy. They have to
work long hours and sometimes
they have to work at night.
2.How caring is the mother?
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.How do the father and the daughter share the
household chores?
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. What is the daughter attempting to do after secondary school?
She is attempting to win a place at university.
Congratulation.
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.
AFTER YOU READ
Work in pairs. Ask and questions about your partner’s family.
How many people are there in your family?
Does your father share the household chores? How?
Do you? How?
How caring is your mother?
Do you and your sister (brother) feel safe and secure in your family? Why?
HOMEWORK
Write a short paragraph,
describing your own family.
Thank you for your attention!
Goodbye!