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3 SPEAKING 4 READING

a Work in pairs. Ask the questions below to a Read the article and identify the main idea.
your partner. Your Family Makes a Great Team!
1. Which household chores are you If you feel like your mum or father has many chores
responsible for? to do and doesn’t have time to spend with you, let’s
2. What are some of the helpful tips you help them with the household chores. Actually, you
know about loading the dishwasher/ have some responsibilities at home such as making
mopping the floor etc.? your bed and putting your dirty clothes into the
b Interview your classmates. laundry basket. Supposing that you all carry out
your responsibilities, you should also lend our
parents a hand with chores. Unless you carry out
Always Usually Often Sometimes Rarely Never your responsibilities, your family can’t be a great
team. Also, you will learn how the real world works
Name:
if you help your family because in life we always
Clean up the bathroom cooperate with others. So what can you do at home

Hang out the laundry to make the chores go into high gear?
Fold the clothes Cooking with parents is the best and the most
enjoyable. You can dance, sing a song, or talk about
Vacuum the carpets
the day with your parents while helping the cooking.
Mop the floors
If you have a garden, there are many attractive and
Dust the furniture kinaesthetic tasks. While you are raking the leaves,
Take out the garbage trimming the bushes or if it is winter, shovelling the
Empty the dishwasher sidewalk, you are also doing physical exercise.

Do the shopping Setting the table will make your mum happy. Moreover,
you can gain more spare time for your family.
Help with the cooking
It will be extremely helpful if you tidy the living room.
c Turn this interview into a written report. You can also organize the bookshelves or drawers and
e.g. A: How often do you clean up the bathroom? clean the surfaces. If you like walking, you may like
B: I rarely clean up the bathroom. picking up some grocery items from the store.
The more you lend a hand to do household chores to
your family, the more you have spare time to spend
CHECK THIS OUT! with them. If your family makes a great team, you
always finish the chores quickly and easily.
Talking About General Truths b Find the meanings of the highlighted chores.
◆ If/when you mix blue and yellow, Write how often you do these chores at your home.
you get green.
◆ Water boils, if/ when it is heated c Answer the questions. Share your answers with
up to 100˚C. class.
◆ Plants die; if/ when they don’t get 1. What are your responsibilities at home?
enough water. 2. Do you like helping your parents with the
We use zero conditional when the chores? Why? Why not?
result of a condition is always
the same such as scientific facts. d Guess the meanings of the following idioms from
The tense in both parts of the the article.
sentence is simple present. Lend someone a hand with something: ___________
Go into high gear: ________________
e Underline the general truth sentences in the text.

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