7.1.2 Обязанности по дому.

Чтение: работа с учебным текстом “Household duties”. Грамматика: повелительное наклонение. Модальные глаголы. Говорение: монолог-сообщение о своём дне и обязанностях по дому.

Task 1. Study the vocabulary. Which of these modern appliances do you have at home?

home appliances	бытовые приборы		meat grinder	мясорубка
blender	блендер		microwave	микроволновка
coffee maker	кофеварка		oven	духовка
coffee-grinder	кофемолка		vacuum cleaner	пылесос
air conditioner	кондиционер		ventilator	вентилятор
dish-washing machine	посудомоечная машина		central heating	центральное отопление
drawing out	вытяжка		cold and hot running water	водоснабжение
fridge	холодильник		heating boiler	водонагреватель
gas-stove	газовая плита		home theatre system	домашний кинотеатр
geyser	колонка		air ionizer	ионизатор воздуха
hair-drier	фен		home burglar alarm	сигнализация
iron	утюг		smart home system	«умный дом»

Task 2. What can you do at home? Make sentences.

clean the carpets make coffee iron my shirt wash the linen sweep the floor wash the dishes heat food

with in

a the

washing machine coffee machine microwave vacuum cleaner broom iron dishwasher

Task 3. Read the text and fill in the missing sentences A-G.

A. He helps to fix and repair some things.

B. My grandma cooks Saturday dinner.

С. After that my mom cooks dinner and supper.

D. Sometimes she washes the dishes.

E. He also makes make furniture or do carpentry.

F. Moreover, she knits woolen socks for everybody.

G. I also dust the furniture and sweep the floor in my room.

Text: Household duties. (Tom)

I believe that household duties are very important in the life of the family as they help us to be more responsible. Everyone in our family treats his duties very seriously.

My mother usually goes shopping because she is the only one who knows best which products we need. She drives to the supermarket twice a week. I always help her to take heavy bags and packets out of the car and bring them home. [1] ……. We all like her cooking. She is especially good at cooking meat with vegetables and baking pies.

My grandmother cooks food when mum is too busy. She makes tasty cakes and pies and cooks delicious strawberry jam. [2] …… Besides, she meets my sister from school on weekdays.

My father usually works long hours and he is very tired at the end of the day. However, he has his own duties at home. [3] …….For example, he repairs electrical appliances when they are out of order. He has already repaired our mother's electric iron and a mixer. [4] ……..This is his hobby.

My chore is to do the washing up after dinner and carry out the garbage. [5] ……... My sister’s duties are to water the flowers and put her toys on their places. [6]……… .

On Saturday all the family is busy with their chores as we make our flat neat. My father cleans the carpet with a vacuum-cleaner. My mother washes the linen in a washing machine. I wash the floors and clean the dust as usually. [7] ……… After all, we all lay the table and have dinner all together. Then we spend some time discussing different problems and events of the week. Finally, we enjoy the rest of the day doing things we like.

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Task 4. Fill in: go, make, delicious, carry out, dust, water, work, repair, clean, bake, wash, household, lay, take, sweep.

1)… shopping, 2)… heavy bags, 3)…. tasty cakes, 4)… duties, 5)… jam, 6)…the flowers, 7)…long hours, 8)… electrical appliances, 9)… the carpet, 10)… pies, 11)…the table, 12)… the garbage, 13)…. the dishes, 14)… the furniture, 15)….the floor.

Task 5. Make your own sentences with the word combinations and phrases from task 4.

Task 6*. Read the text. What new technologies would you like to apply in your home?

Text: Smart house.

Smart house is very similar to an ordinary house, but it is filled with technology! The smart house has the control center. You can also manage the house with the help of an IPhone, your laptop or smart TV. Everything is perfect for work and relaxation!

Cords and wires are likely to disappear from our homes after 2015.Extremely efficient batteries will provide cable-free operation of many household devices, including vacuum cleaners, computers, irons, coffee machines etc... For this reason plug sockets will be replaced by battery re-charging stations. Most of the electricity required in such wireless power networks will be generated by conventional technology, although advanced solar panels, wind and wave power generators will become quite common.

Movable walls made of lightweight sound-proof materials will allow us to section off another bedroom for a visitor or create a large single space to host a party in just half an hour. Other walls may function as huge screen displays. Still more flexibility will be achieved with multi-purpose furniture. At our request it will change structure and shape, or even the colour and texture of the covering.

By 2050 computers will be almost in complete control of our homes. Small and cheap, they will sense changes outside and inside and adjust light, temperature and humidity levels automatically. They will check efficient use of energy for heating and cooling and operate numerous electro-mechanical devices, e.g. they will immediately detect litter dropped on the floor and send a robot vacuum cleaner to clean it up.

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Task 7. Answer the questions:

1. Does everybody in your family have special duties at home? 2. What are your household duties? 3. How often do you do the chores? 4. What do you like to do? 5. Is there anything you hate doing? 6. How much time does it take you to clean your room? 7. Would you like to live in a “smart house”? Why?