3. How often do your parents and you do the following things? Complete the table.

Duties	usually	often	sometimes	never
help about the house
wash up
go shopping
make dinner
vacuum the flat
represent authority
make important decisions
do one’s share of household duties
punish
water the flowers
walk the dog

4. Make up sentences, using the information from the table.

Example: My father usually washes up after dinner.

5. Work with a partner.

Ask your partner about the household duties of his/her family members.

Example: Who walks the dog in your family?

6. Answer the following questions:

1. What do you think of the roles of modern fathers and mothers?

2. Why are most of the fathers still “traditional”?

3. What husband/wife do you want to have? Why?

Role play

Work in groups of four or five.

You are a family. You are having an exchange student from Australia staying with your family on the international exchange program. It is your first meeting. Speak about your families.

UNIT 3

A better life?

1. Look at the pictures. What is life like in each place?

Compare city life with life in the country. Use these words.

cheaper	cleaner	dirtier
noisier	quieter	more dangerous
more expensive	more interesting	more peaceful

Example: The city is noisier.

Which life do you think is more interesting?

2. Look at the list of adjectives below and decide which of them people use to describe London and which they use to describe the village. Make up two lists.

expensive busy noisy cheap quiet peaceful pretty interesting healthy dangerous lonely friendly old

Listen to these people talking about life in London and life in a village. Complete the text with the words in the box above.

Speaker 1

I live in London. Life here is very interesting. There are lots of shops, cinemas and theatres. But it’s really___1___. Buses and trains are ___2___ and food isn’t ___3___. It’s sometimes ___4___ because people are always ___4___. The streets can be ___5___ with all the traffic and it’s usually very ___6___. But I like living in a ___7___ city.

Speaker 2

I live in Worldham, a small village near Selton. It’s very___1___ and ___2___, and people are very ___3___. We can grow fruit and vegetables so life is quite___4___ and___5___. I like living here. The village is ___6___, there are lots of trees and flowers and people always find time for you.