八年级英语下册 Unit 3 Could you please clean your room第5课时教学课件 人教新目标版.pptVIP

* Section B (2a-2e) Unit 3 Could you please clean your room? Do you help your parents do the chores at home? Lead in Do your parents ask you to do some things for them? Do you think kids should help out with chores at home? Why or why not? stress get good grades spend time on schoolwork a waste of time look after to be independent independence stress n. 精神压力; 心理负担 waste n. 浪费; 垃圾 v. 浪费; 滥用 depend v. 依靠; 依赖 develop v. 发展; 壮大 fairness n.公正性; 合理性 since conj. 因为; 既然 prep., conj. adv. 从……以后; 自……以来 neighbor(=neighbour) n. 邻居 drop v. 落下; 掉下 New works Discuss the questions. What do you often do to help your parents at home? 2. Do you think kids should help out with chores at home? 探究点一 Reading The Sunday Mail magazine invited parents to write about whether they think young people should do chores at home. Skim the following letters. Which one agrees and which one disagrees? 2b I do not understand why some parents make their kids help with housework and chores at home. kids these days already have enough stress from school. They do not have time to study and do housework, too. Housework is a waste of time. Could we just let them do their job as students? They should spend their time on schoolwork in order to get good grades and get into a good university. It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment at home for their children. And anyway, I think doing chores is not difficult. I do not mind doing them. Dear Sir, Dear Sir, I think it is important for children to learn how to do chores and help their parents with housework. It is not enough to just get good grades at school. Children these days depend on their parents too much. They are always asking, “Could you get this for me?” or “Could you help me with that?” Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence and teaches them ho