Unit 3 Could you please
clean your room?
Section B
2a--2c
What can the dog do? chores/housework
Lead-in
1.Who often helps parents do chores at home?
sometimes?
hardly ever?
2. Who often does chores at home?
3. What do you often do to help your parents at
home?
4. Do you think kids should help out with chores
at home?
Picture reading Predict
1. What are they doing?
2. Does the girl like helping
her parents? How do you
know?
3. Can you predict what
we are going to read
about?
They are doing chores.
Yes, she does.
From her happy face.
Main idea
1. What is The Sunday Mail?
2. Why did the magazine invite people to write
about something?
Instruction reading
• In some cuntries, it is common for
newspapers and magazines to invite their
readers to express their opinions about
certain subjects in society. These
newspapers and magazines let ordinary
people share their views and learn from
one another. They believe that this can
help their readers to know more about
some important things in society and make
them more open-minded in accepting
opinions that are different from their own.
1
2
3
Instruction reading
Reading strategy
1. Do we have to read
every word ?
2. Do we have to read
every sentence in each
paragragh?
First sentence
Last sentence
Ms. Miller disagrees
that young people
should do chores at
home.
First sentence
Last sentence
Mr. Smith agrees
that young people
should do chores
at home.
1. What's the meaning of pros and cons?
agreements disagreements
2. What is the part of speech of pros and cons?
Read the first letter carefully.
Underline and number the reasons.
1
2
3
3
4
5
6
Read the second letter carefully and
Underline and number the reasons.
a
b c
d
a. Take notes when listening
b. Give a report about their ideas
c. Don't repeat their words, use your own
Read together with the tape recording and
remember the reasons for each parent.
Topic: Should kids do chores at home?
Different
opinions
__________1._______
Agreements
__10.______
※Kids are_____2.____
enough doing schoolwork
to get good grades.
※ Kids' doing chores is
_____3._______ .
※Kids are not
___4.____ to do chores
because they must do
them when they get older.
※It is ___5.___ job to
make their sduty
environment clean and
comfortable.
※_____6._____is not the only
thing the kids need.
※ Kids should know
______7.______ looking after
themselves.
※ Kids must know everyone
should____8.____chores with
their family members.
※Kids understand their parents
better by doing chores and they
can better understand the idea
of ____9._____.
stressed
parents'
Getting good grades
the importance of
fairnees
a waste of time
necessary share
Reasons
Disagreements
b. Make up/Write your own sentences.
a. Please underline these phrases .
c. Share your sentences with your partners.
8. provide sb. with sth./ provide sth. for sb.
1. Which letter do you agree?
2. Try to sell your ideas to the other half.
Say something to change his mind.
• Apple's words:
• It's everyone's duty to do chores.
• Always share your chores at home.