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HOUSEHOLD CHORES

PRE-VIEWING
1. What is a typical day in your life like? What do you do after school?
2. Who cleans the house? Do you ever help with the household chores?
3. Can we write down all the house chores you can think of?

WHILE-VIEWING
1. Watch the first 15 seconds and pay attention to what the mother is doing. Make a list
of all the things she is doing.
2. What does the boy give to his mother? What do you think it is?
3. What does he start doing? Why do you think he is doing that? Why does he make a
list?
4. When the mother asks him where he has been, what is his answer? Why does he
need to save her time?

POST-VIEWING
1. What is the message that this video is transmitting?
2. This is an ad. They are trying to sell something to you. Do you think this ad is
effective? Why? What product would you advertise with this ad?
3. What type of family do you think this is?
4. Do you think women should work full time? Who should take care of the house? Who
should take care of the children? Should women work during the first few years of
their childrens lives? Should fathers get paid pregnancy leave?

CLASSIFY

HOUSEHOLD CHORES ACCORDING TO THE VERB THEY START WITH

Iron shop wash up vacuum bed dinner trash out dog for a walk shopping list
mop table lawn breakfast housework laundry -

DO

MAKE

TAKE

(OTHERS)

DO VS MAKE
Brbara Cernadas

2016

CAE

WORK, JOBS AND TASKS

A cup of tea

The housework

PRODUCE A REACTION

Your homework

Your eyes water

A good job

You happy

Your chores

You sleepy

NON-SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

You smile

Something

PLANS AND DECISIONS

Nothing

Arrangements

Everything

A decision

Anything

A choice

REPLACE VERB WHEN


OBVIOUS

A plan

SPEAKING AND SOUNDS

Your hair

A noise

The dishes

A comment

The exam

A speech

The laundry

A suggestion

FOOD, DRINK AND MEALS


A cake
Breakfast
Dinner

Brbara Cernadas

2016

CAE

ACTIVITY
1. He always __________ his homework late at night.
2. Karen __________ an exam at university yesterday but she doesnt feel very confident.
3. If you ____________ a mistake in the test you will lose marks.
4. The principal _____________ a speech at school every year for the new students.
5. Try not to___________ a mess on the floor.
6. You were very quiet in the meeting. You didnt ________ any suggestion at all!
7. Dad, can you ________ me a favor and drive me to the station?
8. Do you know if Pedro ________ well in the test?
9. They _________ many changes to the transport system last year.
10. Sofi, _________ a decision! Are you coming with us or not?
11. He deserves a raise. He _______________ many improvements in his performance this
year.
12. She __________ time for me whenever I need to talk to her.
13. Claudia ___________ the cleaning after the party had finished.

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