内容正文:
U3 Could you please clean your room?
Section B 2a-2e
I think children should do housework and chores at home.
Do you agree or disagree?
FREE TALK
Your opinions ?
2a
Discuss the questions with your partner.
1.What do you often do to help your parents at home?
2.Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
2b
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?
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.
1.如何快速略读获得作者的观点及文章概貌,在文章的哪些地方最容易获得答案?
Skim the following letters , which one agrees and which one disagrees?
Who wrote the first letter?
Ms. Miller.
What’s Mr.Miller’s opinion?
disagree
What’s Mr.Smith’s opinion ?
agree
Ms.Miller
Mr. Smith
2.请同学们在两封信中划线摘出 Mr. Smith 和 Ms. Miller 两人对待孩子的不同观点。
2c
According to Ms.Miller and Mr. Smith, what are the pros and cons about kids doing chores?
Pros赞成 Cons反对
Doing chores helps to develop
children’s independence.
Housework is a waste of children’s time.
依据
It teaches them how to look after themselves.
It helps them to understand the idea of fairness.
It is good for their future.
Children already have enough stress from school.
They have no time to study and do housework.
Their job now is to be students. They will do housework in the future.
It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children.
Retell the letters in 2b
Pros赞成 Cons反对
Doing chores helps to develop
children’s independence.
Housework is a waste of children’s time.
Children already have enough stress from school.
They have no time to study and do housework.
Their job now is to be students. They will do housework in the future.
It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their chi