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Unit 3
Could you please clean your room?
Reading 2
Free talk
1. What chores do you know?
2. What chores do you often do at home?
3. Should teenagers do chores at home or not?
Why or why not?
Should young people do chores at home?
2b
The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether(是否) they think young people should do chores at home.
Ms. Miller
Mr. Smith
Skimming (略读)
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.
What are their ideas
Ms. Miller
Mr. Smith
Kids should do chores at home.
Kids should not do chores at home.
2c
Pros Cons
Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence.
Housework is a waste of children’s time.
It teaches them how to look
after themselves.
Children already have enough stress from school.
支持
反对
It helps them to understand
the idea of fairness.
It is good for their future.
They have no time to study and do housework, too.
They will have to do housework when they get older.
It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children.
The Sunday Mail magazine did a survey. They invited parents to write about whether kids should do 1. ___________________ at home.
Ms. Miller thinks that children shouldn’t 2.______ with housework. They have enough stress from school 3.______ they don’t have time to do housework. They should 4._______ their time on schoolwork so that they can get good grades and get into a good university. It is the parents’ job to 5. __________ a good environment for their children.
Mr. Smith holds a 6.__________ opinion. He thinks that 7._____ is important for children to help their parents with housework. Children these days 8._______ on their parents too much. He thinks children can learn to independent and understand the idea of fairness 9._______ doing housework. He also thinks that everyone