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Section B 2a-2e
To list different ideas about whether kids should do chores or not.
To share your own ideas according to the passage.
Objectives
Discuss the questions with your partner.
2a
What do you often do to help your parents at home?
Do you think kids should help out with chores at home?
A: What do you often do to help your parents at
home?
B: I often help my mum do the dishes,
wash clothes, sweep the floor.
A: Do you think kids should help out with chores
at home?
B: Yes, I think it’s better for kids to
help out with chores at home, because
it can help them independent and learn
to share.
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.
2b
Dear Sir,
I do not understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home. Kids these days already have enough stress from school. They do not have time to study and do housework, too. Housework is a waste of their time. Could we just let them do their job as students? They should spend their time on schoolwork in
order to get good grades and get into a good university. Also, when they get older, they will have to do housework so there is no need for them to do it now. It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children. And anyway, I think doing chores is not so difficult. I do not mind doing them.
Ms. Miller
Dear Sir,
I think it is important for children to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework. It is not enough to just get good grades at school. Children these days depend on their parents too much. They are always asking, “Could you get this for me?” o