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Unit 3 Could you please clean your room?
Section B 2a-2e
Warming up—Pre-reading—While-reading—Post-reading —Exercises—Summary—Homework
Learning goals
1. Curriculum words: stress, waste, provide, anyway, depend, develop, independence, fairness, since, neighbor, ill, drop, independent
2. Useful expressions: in order to, depend on, take care of, make sb. do sth.,
help with(doing) sth., a waste of, spend time/money
on sth., there is no need for sb. to do sth., It's one's job/duty to do sth., do one's part in(doing)sth., have no idea. as a result, fall ill
3. Reading strategy: Skimming
Warming up
Free talk
◆ Do you often do chores at home?
◆ How do you feel about doing chores?
Discuss the questions with your parnter.
Pre-reading
2a
1. What do you often do to help your parents at home?
I often take out the rubbish and do the dishes.
I think kids should help out with chores at home. In this way, we can learn how to take care of ourselves.
2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
Look at the question title and the picture in 2b, and predict what you will read about.
A. Kids should spend time on schoolwork.
B. Should kids do chores at home?
C. Kids should be dependent.
The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Read the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
Pre-reading
Pre-reading
Skimming
This means looking quickly through a piece of writing to find the main idea without reading every word. It is still a good idea to read the first sentence in each paragraph a little more carefully.
Reading strategy
略读
The last sentence is important, too.
Pre-reading
Skim the letters and find Mr. Miller’s and Ms. Smith’s points about children helping with housework. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
Dear Sir,
I do not understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home. Kids these d