Chapter 7 Family lives

step 2  pre-task 
what do you know about：
ask the ss to discuss about the following questions before reading the articles.
1. how much pocket money do you get?
2. who does the housework in your home?
3. do you often get presents from your parents? if so, what kind of presents are they?
4. who makes the decisions in your family?
5. what are the rules about watching tv in your home?
step 3 while-task
1. go through the articles and try to fill in the blanks at page86.
                              tiny                      david
1 pocket money
2 housework

3 presents
4 parents saying no
5 tv watching a generous amount
a _____  ____  ____
b it is the job ____  ____
_____.
gets ____  ___  ____
_________
____  ____each week _______    ______
a does it _____  ____
b it is the _____  ____  
_____  ____   _____.
gets them _______.
_________
____  ____ each week

2. listen and then answer the t(true) or f(false) questions.
 
3. fill in the blanks with the words and phrases learnt
tina’s family life
tina’s parents give her ________  _______  _____ of pocket money every month. if she ____ it before the _____ of the month, they complain _____   _____, but they always give her _____.
she _____ do housework. sometimes her mother asks her to _____ her room if she’s very _____, but she always gives her _____ or a _____ for helping her. tina thinks ______ is the job of the parents.
she gets lots of presents. she also has lots of nice ______. her parents buy her all the _____ fashions. they _____ say ‘no’. they want her to have a happy _____.
tina has her own tv. she can watch it for _____, and no one _____ her. she watches tv for about _____ hours each week.

david’s family life
david gets ______   _____ pocket money every month. his parents says he has to learn to _____  _____ his money. so they ______ give him any more if he spends it too quickly. but he think this is ______.
he has to do the _____ for about ____ hour every day. he ______ dishes and clothes, _____the floors and sometimes _____ meals. his parents never ______ him for doing housework. he thinks doing housework is the ________ of the ______ family.