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Section B 2a-2e
Watch the video and answer the questions
What’s the mother doing?
What are the kids doing?
How does the mother feel?
Watch the video and answer the questions
What’s the mother doing?
What are the kids doing?
How does the mother feel?
The mother is doing the dishes.
They are passing the dirty dishes to the mom.
She might be a litter tired.
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
Should young people do chores at home? Read the letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees?
I do not understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home.
Disagree
Ms.Miller
I think it is important for children to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework.
Agree
Mr.Smith
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 ol