Unit 1. Home life

Short introduction and
definitions to types of family.



Vocabulary
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Shift (n):
Join hands:
Give a hand :
Be willing to :
Be under a lot of
study pressure
• Household chores
• Mischievous (a)
• Obedient (a)

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Ca , kíp
Cùng nhau

Giúp một tay
Sẵn sàng
Dưới áp lực
học hành
• Công việc nhà
• Tinh nghịch
• Vâng lời , nghe lời


1. Shift (n):

A. Sẵng sàng

2. Join hands:

B. Công việc nhà

3. Give a hand :

C. Ca , kíp

4. Be willing to :

D. Giúp một tay

5. Be under a lot of
study pressure

E. Tinh nghịch

6. Household chores

G. Dưới áp lực

7. Mischievous (a)
8. Obedient (a)

F. Vâng lời , nghe lời
học hành
H. Cùng nhau


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 closeknit 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
Answers:
1f explanation

2a 3e 4c 5b
6d
column
A and the
in column
B
1. 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


Task 2. Answer the questions
1.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?
5.Why do the children feel they are safe and
secure in their family?


Task 2. Answer the questions
1.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 having eaten breakfast and
dressed 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 her younger
brothers. The father sometimes cooks or
mends things around the house at weekends.

4.What is the daughter attempting to
do after secondary school?

 She attempts to win a place at university.


5.Why do the children feel they
are safe and secure in their
family?
 Because they are very closeknit 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 small
____ family of five
___ people including
younger brothers and I_____.
(me) My

my parents, two
_________________
nurse and my father is a________.
biologist My
mother is a______
parents go to work, but when they come home
do the household chores and
they join hands to
______________________
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.


• Prepare speaking lesson
(talk about the families)



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 inlaws, (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.