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Unit 3
Section B2
(2a-2e)
Could you please clean your room?
1. To read the two letters and get parents’ different opinions on whether young people should do chores at home
2. To try to write your own opinions about whether children should do some chores at home
3. To learn new words: stress, waste, provide, anyway, depend, develop, …
Objectives
Do your parents ask you to do housework?
What do you often do ?
A boy in Grade 7,Fu Xuanang,
had a conversation with his mother.
So, do you think kids should
help put with chores at home?
Parents have different ideas, too.
The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home.
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.
disagree
agree
Task 1
2b
Read the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
P22
Find and underline Mr. Smith and Ms. Miller’s points about children helping with housework.
Read letter1
T or F
1. Kids have enough stress from school.
2. Housework is a waste of time.
3. If kids get into a good university, they won’t need to do chores when they get older.
T
T
F
Read letter12
T or F
1. It is enough to just get good grades at schook.
2. Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence and teaches them how to take care of themselves.
F
T
Pros Cons
Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence.
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.
Housework is a waste of children’s time.
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.
2c
According to Ms. Miller and Mr. Smith, w