home life grade 12 – unit 1 reading. contents 1.reading skills needed 2.before you read vocabulary...

Home Life

Grade 12 – Unit 1

Reading

Contents

1. Reading skills needed

2. Before you read Vocabulary Introduction & guiding activity

3. While you read

4. After you read

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Reading skills needed

• Skimming: read something quickly to find the

main facts or ideas

• Scanning: read something quickly to find

specific facts or ideas

• Guessing words-in-context

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Vocabulary: Chore• Washing dishes• Washing clothes• Cleaning the bathroom• Ironing• Cooking

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• Chore (noun) = housework• Chore: a small job that you have to do regularly,

especially work that you do to keep a house clean

Vocabulary: Household

• Household = domestic

• Household (adjective): relating to looking after a house and the people in it

• E.g. – household goods/products/items– washing powder and other household

products– household chores

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Vocabulary: Household

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Introduction & Guiding Activity

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TRUE FALSE

1Parents are concerned that children are not doing much housework.

2Teenagers prefer doing homework to doing household chores.

3Children’s contribution to the household chores is essential.

4Parents always appreciate their children doing housework.

5Children can learn necessary skills from the chores they do.

Task 1

Introduction & Guiding Activity

• Now you are going to reading an article on household chores. Read the text quickly and check if you made a good guess.

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Introduction & Guiding Activity

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TRUE FALSENOT

GIVEN

1Parents are concerned that children are not doing much housework.

2Teenagers prefer doing homework to doing household chores.

3Children’s contribution to the household chores is essential.

4Parents always appreciate their children doing housework.

5Children can learn necessary skills from the chores they do.

Answer the questions

1. What problems do parents usually have with their children over household chores?

Parents cannot get their children to do housework.

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Answer the questions

2. What did Virginia complain about her daughter over domestic chores?

Virginia complained that her daughter blew off responsibility (though her work was twice as less as Virginia’s in the past.)

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Answer the questions

3. What did Sampson Lee Blair’s research find out about the contribution of American children to their family?

He found it essential and contribute 12% of all household labor.

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Guess words-in-context

A B

1. Conflict a. Divide

2. Glare b. Puzzled

3. Dismayed c. Quarrel

4. Bewildered d. Upset

5. Nag e. Stare angrily

6. Divvy up f.Annoy someone by constant scolding

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1 C

2 E

3 D

4 B

5 F

6 A

Debate

• The class will be divided into 2 groups - one group argue for children’s contribution to household chores while the other is against it.

• Each group have 5 minutes to think and discuss the issue in side their group.

• Members in each group take turn to prove the point to the other group.

• The group who persuade the other will win the debate.

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The End

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