Today's topic is Household Chores
1) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.
- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.
- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.
- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.
- Say the text of Training 1 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.
- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.
- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.
2) Listen to Topic 23, Household Chores 2-3 times.
- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.
- Try to memorise the text.
- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.
2) Listen to Topic 23, Household Chores in Past Simple.
Read it several times and answer the questions.
3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 7, Part 1 (Picture 1)
Black Jack Chapter Seven Part One
To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.
4) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.
Choose the correct one.
HOUSEHOLD CHORES
1
See the key to this test below.
Key to Test 1, Household Chores
1) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.
1.
On
the telephone:
Nick:
Mother, can you come to my house?
Mrs.
Smith: Why?
Nick:
The house is very dirty. Can you help me?
Mrs.
Smith: I can’t come now. I’m so tired.
Nick:
Mother, please!
Mrs.
Smith: Son, how old are you?
Nick:
I’m fifty-one years old.
Mrs.
Smith: Yes, son. You are fifty-one. You are old enough to do the
housework.
Nick:
But Mother! I don’t know how!
Mrs.
Smith: Ask your wife.
Nick:
She’s in bed. She is ill.
Mrs.
Smith: Ask the children.
Nick:
They’re on holiday at the beach with Uncle Butch.
Mrs.
Smith: And the cleaning lady?
Nick:
She won the lottery, so now she doesn’t clean houses.
Mrs.
Smith: Can’t you find a new cleaning lady?
Nick:
No, Mother. I can’t.
Mrs.
Smith: Okay, son. I’m coming. You are a baby, but you are my baby.
Training
1
Nick:
“I rarely do housework. I don’t like it. In fact, I hate it. Yet,
I have to do the housework today. My wife can’t help me because she
is ill in bed. My children can’t help me because they are at the
beach with Uncle Butch. Our cleaning lady won the lottery and now she
doesn’t clean houses. Only my mother can help me. I know she
doesn’t like it but she can’t say ‘no’ to me. I am fifty-one
but I am still her baby.”
1.
What do you have to do today?
2.
Do you like it?
3.
Have you got a cleaning lady?
4.
What about your wife or your children?
5.
Is there anyone who can help you?
6.
Why can’t she say ‘no’ to you?
7.
How old are you?
Training
2
Mrs
Smith: “My son Nick sometimes calls me and asks me to help him
around the house. I don’t like it but I can’t say ‘no’. His
wife is ill now and has to stay in bed. His children don’t want to
help. Nick doesn’t have a cleaning lady and he can’t do the
housework himself. He is fifty-one and he is like a baby, but he is
my baby. So I can’t refuse him.”
1.
Why does your son sometimes call you?
2.
Do you like it?
3.
Why can’t his wife help him?
4.
What about the children?
5.
Where is his cleaning lady?
6.
How old is he?
7.
Why can’t you refuse?
Training
3
Nick
phones his mother and asks her to come to his house. His house is
very dirty and he wants his mother to help him clean it. Nick’s
mother refuses to come because she is very tired. She tells her son
that he is fifty-one years old and he can do the housework himself.
But Nick doesn’t know how to do it. His wife can’t do it either,
because she is ill and has to stay in bed. His children are at the
beach with Uncle Butch. His cleaning lady won the lottery and now she
doesn’t clean houses and Nick can’t find a new cleaning lady. In
the end Nick’s mother agrees to come. She tells him that he is a
baby, but he is her baby.
- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.
- Training 1. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.
- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.
- Say the text of Training 1 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.
- Training 2. Do the same with Training 2.
- Training 3. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.
2) Listen to Topic 23, Household Chores 2-3 times.
- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.
Nobody
likes household chores, but everybody has to do them. Household
chores are boring. But they are very important. I just hate them. I
have a lot of household chores. And my boyfriend hasn’t got any.
There are always a lot of dirty dishes after dinner. And we haven’t
got a dishwasher. So I usually do the washing-up after dinner.
Sometimes there is dust on the furniture. So I dust the furniture
every week. Fortunately, I have a washing machine. So I never do the
washing by hand. I don’t vacuum, either. So, after all, my
boyfriend has one household chore.
Answer the questions
1.
Does anybody like household chores?
2.
Are household chores amazing?
3.
Do you like them?
4.
How many household chores have you got?
5.
Has your boyfriend got any?
6.
Have you got a dishwasher?
7.
Who does the washing-up then?
8.
What are your other chores?
9.
Do you do the washing, too?
10.
Who vacuums in your flat?
- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.
2) Listen to Topic 23, Household Chores in Past Simple.
Read it several times and answer the questions.
When
I didn’t have any household appliances, household chores were
boring. We didn’t have a dishwasher or a vacuum-cleaner. So I
usually did the washing-up after dinner. There was a lot of dust on
the furniture. And I did the washing, too.
1.
When were household chores boring?
2.
Did you have a dishwasher and a vacuum-cleaner then?
3.
Who did the washing-up and the washing?
4.
Was there dust on the furniture, too?
3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 7, Part 1 (Picture 1)
Black Jack Chapter Seven Part One
To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.
4) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.
Choose the correct one.
HOUSEHOLD CHORES
1
Which
is correct?
1.
_____ any food in the fridge?
a)
There is
b)
Is there
c)
Is it
2.
_____ your dirty clothes?
a)
Are they
b)
Are
c)
Is it
3. I
don’t want to do the washing _____.
a)
down
b)
out
c)
up
4.
Edgar _____ does the laundry.
a)
never
b) a
lot
c)
ever
5.
_____ socks are these?
a)
Whose
b)
Who
c)
Who’s
6.
Come and get it! The food is _____ the table.
a)
on top
b)
on to
c)
on
7.
That’s Bubba _____ dirty laundry.
a)
’s
b) s
c)
is
8. I
don’t have _____ time to clean my flat.
a)
the
b) a
c)
one
9.
_____ you give me the soap?
a)
Do
b)
Are
c)
Can
10.
_____ family has got a vacuum cleaner.
a)
There is
b)
Some
c)
My
11.
_____ help with the housework?
a)
Does he
b)
Is he
c)
Are they
12.
Where is the _____?
a)
milk
b)
my milk
c)
that milk
13.
Reggie wants to do _____ housework.
a) a
b)
many
c)
some
14.
We wash the car _____ Saturday.
a)
always
b)
at
c)
every
15.
We wash our clothes in a _____.
a)
wash machine
b)
washer machine
c)
washing machine
16.
They wash _____ at the weekend.
a)
them
b)
all
c)
flat
17.
In the morning he _____ bread.
a)
buys a
b)
buy
c)
buys
18.
Frank _____ the shopping.
a)
doesn’t do
b)
isn’t
c)
doing
19.
I like to wash my car _____ night.
a)
in
b)
on
c)
at
20.
I _____.
a)
very like to clean
b)
like to very clean
c)
like to clean very much
See the key to this test below.
Key to Test 1, Household Chores
1. b
2. a 3. c 4. a 5. a 6. c 7. a 8. a 9. c 10. c 11. a 12. a 13. c 14. c
15. c 16. a 17. c 18. a 19. c 20. c
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