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Through the keyhole In this unit, we’ll talk about family, chores and your bedroom! The aim of the unit is to: • talk and write about different households, families and family stereotypes, • present your own ‘framily’, • talk and write about responsibilities and chores around the house, • express intentions and instant decisions, • describe your bedroom.
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Therefore, you’ll need: • words relating to family, • the future with be going to, • the future with will.
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Let’s meet… the ‘cereal packet’ family
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• What can you tell about the families in the two pictures? • The first picture refers to the ‘cereal packet’ family. It used to be the ‘ideal’ family. What’s typical about this type of family? • Why is the second picture made up of four parts?
1.2 Different households A lot of TV-series and movies are about different types of households. Nowadays, a ‘cereal packet family’ is no longer the standard family.
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Look at these posters and match them with the names for the different types of families and to the correct definition.
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Types of households
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A the empty nest family a B the single parent family b C the nuclear family c D the same sex family d E the extended family e F the blended family f
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family with parents and children but also with grandparents or other relatives living with them one-parent family with children family with parents who are the same sex: two dads or two mums living together, with children newly formed family. A single mum or dad has a new boyfriend or girlfriend, they form a new family with children of (sometimes) both partners family, usually with older parents, whose children have moved out family made up of the parents and children
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TYPE OF HOUSEHOLD DEFINITION
b Which type of household do you live in? c How many different types of household are there in your class? d Do you think there is such a thing as the ideal nuclear family in today’s society? Why (not)?
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Meet the … vocabulary
2.1 You can choose your friends, but not your family.
a ‘Framily’ is a portemanteau word. It’s a blended word, combining the meaning of two different words. It comes from two different words. Which two words are they?
b These are other examples of portemanteau words. Which words are they derived from?
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c Do you know any other in English or in your own language?
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A ‘framily’ is a new social phenomenon. What could it be about? . grammar
2.2 Have you got a big framily? Using ‘to have (got)’ and there is/there are
a Think about who you could consider being a member of your framily. Make a list of all people you would include. Think of family members and friends. Friends
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Answer these questions about your framily. 1
How many members has your framily got?
2 How many friends (not blood relatives) have you got in your framily? 3 How many blood relatives are there in your framily? 4 Is there a best friend among your family members?
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5 Is there a best friend among your friends? 6 Have you got a big or a rather small framily?
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Famous families
Friends is a popular TV-series, although new episodes aren’t being produced. There are a lot of other series featuring families and friends. The Simpsons, another series about a family, is also one of the most popular cartoons in America. Do you know any other famous families?
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Would your framily make an interesting group to star in a TV series or cartoon? Why (not?)
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Read this small article about the Moores, a family who won its cartoon version on TV: Family turned into cartoon: the British Simpsons!
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family of six have been chosen as the models for an animated series based around their hectic and entertaining life. The Moores from Leicestershire will star in their own cartoon after a nationwide search was launched to find a family to act as a prototype by children’s channel Nickelodeon.
Meet the Moores will run every weekday evening on the digital channel Nicktoons TV in a oneminute adventure. The family from Shepshed is headed by Robert 50, a second hand car salesman and Tania, 35, a university administrative assistant and their four children. Adapted from the Nickdisc forums.
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2.4 Win your own cartoon!
The Nickelodeon television channel is looking for a new family to star in their new cartoon ‘Meet the…’ and you are going to apply! Because they are looking for the 21st century new and typical family, they allow ‘framilies’ to enter the competition! Subscribe to the competition and design a cereal box on which you present your framily.
a Fill in this form and introduce your framily! The most interesting framily will win its own cartoon! WANT TO SEE YOUR F(R)AMILY STAR IN ITS VERY OWN CARTOON?
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Please complete the following details. Don't forget to enclose a creative cereal box of your framily! Full Name:
Please state all the people in your f(r)amily that you would like to appear in the cartoon and who they are, for example mum, dad, sister, grandparent, friends, etc. (including pets!) Make a selection of 6 people.
Age: Address: Postcode: Daytime Tel Number Evening Tel Number Parental consent must be given in order for this form to be valid. As the parent/guardian of I hereby consent to all the entry terms and conditions for this competition. Signature:
DESIGN YOUR OWN 'CEREAL BOX' PRESENTING YOUR FRAMILY AND SEND IT ALONG WITH THIS FORM.
Date: Please print your full name: The closing date for all entries is 1st March
Please return this form and your cereal box to: PO BOX 64, Manchester, M60 IGH
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b Describe your family, household or framily and bring (a) picture(s) of them. Design your own cereal box on which you present your framily, using all the information of the previous activities.
BACKSIDE of the BOX: Present each f(r)amily member with a picture (real or cartoon version) and a small text (job, hobbies, age, personal information …).
SIDE 1 of the BOX: The ingredients of your box: List of all f(r)amily members (with pictures).
FRONT SIDE of the BOX: Present your f(r)amily: • with a nice and real f(r)amily picture (cartoon version?) • a catchy name • a small introduction in which you say something about your f(r)amily in general.
SIDE 2 of the BOX: List of facts about your framily – fun or interesting things to know.
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c Meet the framilies: let’s speed date and do some cereal box reading! 1
All the framily cereal boxes will be displayed in your class. Your teacher will prepare a speed date setting. You will ‘meet’ all the different framilies in your class. Your teacher has prepared a bingo card for you. You have to find a framily who… and complete the card. 2 And our votes go to… Who is – according to the class – the best presented framily of the group? Who could feature a new cartoon and become the new ‘Simpsons’? Vote for your favourite framily, count the votes and decide which framily wins its own cartoon on TV.
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3.1 Is this the ideal family?
The Simpsons family represents a ‘cereal packet’ family but we can’t really say it’s ideal because even their representation is full of stereotypes.
a What is a stereotype? The pictures might help you.
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b A lot of stereotypes are gender stereotypes. They focus on the differences between women and men. Which stereotypes do you recognise in these Simpsons pictures? watching
3.2 Household stereotypes
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Watch the video. What is your reaction to it?
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Answer the questions. • What is said and shown in the video about children between 2 and 5? • What are the gender stereotypes referred to in the questions or in the kids’ answers? Women
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3.3 Stereotypes on TV a Watch this compilation of commercials. b TV-series and commercials use gender stereotypes.
How do the commercials portray women? And what about the men? Complete the grid. Gender stereotypes Men stereotypes
Women stereotypes
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c Have a look at your own household. • Who does what around the house? REMEMBER never rarely, seldom sometimes regularly often usually mostly always
Who …
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does the shopping? does the laundry? sets the rules at home? does the cleaning? does the cooking? works in the garden? … … … … • Discuss your answers in class. Use the adverbs of frequency. EXAMPLE • My mum mostly does the cooking but she never works in the garden.
3.4 What mom tells us is nonsense Being a mother of three, Anita Renfroe (an American comedian who lives in Atlanta) sure knows everything about raising children. She also feels as if she does all the asking and saying, the bossing around in her family. She feels like she lives in a very traditional nuclear family so, to make a statement, she made a fun song about all the different things she – being a mum who runs the house – has to say or do… over and over again. It’s a 2-minute and 55-second song about a day in her ‘motherly’ life.
vocabulary Atlanta is the capital city of the state of Georgia in the USA. It’s a very important American city. Martin Luther King was born there in 1929. Big companies such as the Coca Cola Company and CNN have their main office there.
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a Use the images to fill in the blanks in the song. Use a dictionary when necessary.
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(1) now, (1) now, (1) out of bed, (2) your face, (3) your teeth, (4)
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your sleepy head. Here’s your (5) and your (6) . Hear the words I said: get up now, get up and (7) your bed.
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Are you (8) ? Are you (9) ? Are you wearing that? Where’s your (10) and your (11) and your homework at?
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Grab your (12) and your (13) and your (14) and (15) . Don’t forget you’ve got to feed the (16) .
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Eat your (17) : the experts tell us it’s the most important meal of all. Take your (18) so you will grow up one day to be big and tall. Please remember the orthodontist will be seeing you at (19) today?
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Don’t forget your (20) lesson is this afternoon, so you must play! Don’t shovel, (21) slowly!
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But (22) : the (23) is here. Be , come back here, did you wash behind your (24) ? Play outside, don’t play rough, would you just play fair?
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Be , make a friend, don’t forget to . Work it out, wait your turn, never take a dare, get along, don’t make me come down there.
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(25) your room, fold your clothes. Put your stuff away, make your bed, do it now, do we have all day? Were you born in a (26) ? Would you like some (27) ?
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Can you even hear a word I say? Answer the (28) , get off the (29) . Don’t sit so close, turn it down, no (29) at the table.
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No more computer time tonight, your iPod’s my iPod if you don’t listen up.
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Where are you going and with whom and what time do you think you’re coming home? Saying ‘t , ‘p ’, ‘e ’ makes you welcome everywhere you roam. You’ll appreciate my wisdom someday when you’re older and you’re grown.
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Can’t wait ‘til you have a couple little (31) of your own. You’ll thank me for the counsel I gave you so willingly. But right now, I thank you NOT to roll your (32) at me.
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Close your (33) when you chew, would appreciate. Take a bite, maybe two, of the stuff you hate. Use your (34), do not you (35) or I’ll set you straight. (36) the food I put upon your (37). Get an A, get the door, don’t get smart with me. Get a grip, get in here I’ll count to 3. Get a job, get a life, get a PhD, get a dose of . I don’t care who started it, you’re grounded until your 36. Get your story straight, and tell the truth for once for heaven’s sake. And if all your friends (39) off a cliff, would you (39) too? If I’ve said it once, I’ve said at least a thousand times before that you’re too old to act this way, it must be your father’s (40). Look at me when I am talking, stand up straight when you (41). A place for everything and everything must be in place. Stop (42) or I’ll give you something real to (42) about! Oh! Brush your teeth, wash your face, get your PJs on. Get in bed, get a hug, say a (43) with Mom. Don’t forget ‘I love you’ (**KISS**). And tomorrow we will do this all again because a mom’s work never ends. You don’t need the reason why, Because, because, because, because, I said so, I said so, I said so, I said so, I’m the Mom, the mom, the mom, the mom, the mom. Ta-da
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b Listen to the song and check your answers. c There are many words in the song you probably don’t know. Create your own vocabulary list. • Make word webs to remember them more easily. • Use a dictionary if you don’t know the meaning of the words. • You can write full expressions instead of words when necessary.
CLOTHING
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3.5 Telling people what to do The Imperative a What rules are there around the house?
Anita Renfroe has 3 children running around the house. Imagine she keeps post-it notes on the fridge to remind them of the rules. What would be written on them? Look back at the lyrics and complete the post-it notes.
DO TH IS!
DON’T DO TH AT! ☐
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b Which rules of exercise A do you have at your home as well? Tick them. c What additional rules are there at your place? Make a list. Use the Imperative to say what you can or cannot do.
DON’T DO TH AT! DO TH IS!
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3.6 What about ‘the dad’?
a More than 15 million people have watched the video of the Momsense Song on YouTube. It instantly became a huge Internet hit! In your opinion… Why is the video so popular? Why doesn’t she mention the ‘dad’ in the song?
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2 Is there a lot of truth in her representation of the ‘normal’ roles in a household? Discuss in class!
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4.1 Men and chores?! a Look at the picture. What does it tell you about gender stereotypes?
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c Look at the pictures. What other chores do they represent? What are these dads doing? Complete the sentences with a noun.
dinner • the garbage • the shopping • the clothes • the children • the furniture • the dog • the dishwasher • lunch • the table • the bedroom • the clothes • the laundry • the flowers and plants • the toys • the floor
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d Can you think of more household chores? Think of four extra chores or tasks around the house. Use Google or a picture website suggested by your teacher. Name the tasks or chores and add pictures you have found.
e Watch the clip and name all the household chores the man in the clip does in one hour.
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