Unit 1. Home life

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READING
TEACHER: HO MINH THUAN
Skim each paragraph in the reading. Draw a line from the paragraph to the main idea.
Paragraph
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4

Main idea
Parents’ responsibilities
Feelings about family
My family
Children’s duties
Task1: (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
READ THIS PARAGRAPH
I come from a small family of five people including my parents, two younger brothers and I/me. My mother is a nurse and my father is a biologist. My parents go to work, but when they come home they join hands to do the household chores and teach all of us. We love our parents, too. We are very close-knit family. We always feel homesick whenever we go far. In fact, east or west, home is the best. There is no place like home.
Fill in some suitable words and say!
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.

HOMEWORK
Do Task 2 (page 14) at home.
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