In this post, we’ll learn about Together we are a family, which is a topic from Chapter 5, English Subject, Class 6.
Important Vocabularies For This Lesson
- Homework – বাড়ির কাজ
- Usually – সাধারণত
- Prepare – প্রস্তুত করা
- Responsibility – দায়িত্ব
- For example – উদাহরণস্বরূপ
- Express – প্রকাশ করা
- Whenever – যখনই
- Solve – সমাধান করা
- Encourage – উৎসাহিত করা
- Listen to – শোনা
- Attentively – মনোযোগের সাথে
- Grid – কাঠামো
- Describe – বর্ণনা করা
- Feed – খাদ্যগ্রহণ করা
- Mopping – মোছা
5.1 | Discuss the following questions in pairs:
Ans:
Student 1 : Hey. what’s up?
Student 2 : Good. Let’s talk about our families.
Student 1 : Ok. Tell me how many members are there in your family.
Student 2 : Well, there are four members in my family including me.
Student 1 : In my family we are five people.
Student 2 : Tell me who cook for your family?
Student 1 : My mother. She is the best cook I’ve ever known.
Student 2 : My mother cooks for my family too.
Student 1 : Who usually cleans your house?
Student 2 : We have a cleaner who comes daily and do these.
Student 1 : But we clean our house ourselves. Each person has separate duties.
Student 2 : What are the things that you do in your family?”
Student 1 : I clean my own room and help my mother wash dishes after dinner.
Student 2 : What more can you do to help your family?
Student 1 : I can wash in clothes, help my father in the garden and help my younger brother do his homework.
Student 2 : Thanks. From now on I’ll try to help my family too.
5.2 | Have you done this before!! [tick (√) the box]
Ans:
√ Cleaning reading table
√ Cleaning plates
√ Clearing dining table
√ Carrying shopping bags
√ Washing clothes
5.4 | Work in pairs. Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B:
Ans:
Consist of → To be made up of things or people
Household chores → The daily work that is done to keep the house clean and proper
Come forward → To offer help or service
Clean → To make a place/object free from dirt/dust
Expressing opinion → To tell what/how you think or feel about someone or something
Appreciate → To recognize how good someone or something is, and/or to value
Appreciate something
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5.5 | Look at the grid below. It shows the household chores of Anamika’s family. Read the passage again and put a tick to show who does the work, and then use full sentences to describe the grid in pairs/groups. One is done for you.
| Household chores | Anamika | Father | Mother | Brother |
| Cooking | √ | √ | ||
| Washing clothes | √ | √ | √ | |
| Washing plates | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Cleaning house | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Expressing opinion | √ | √ | √ | √ |
5.6 | Discus in pairs/groups whether the sentences are True or False. If “False”, give the correct information.
Ans: Discuss in pairs:
Student 1: Hey, have you read the passage?
Student 2 : Yes of course. We can talk about the true/false sentences.
Student 1 : I think the sentences a. c, e, f, g and h are true.
Student 2 : I think so. too. And the sentences b and d are false.
Student 1 : In case of b we can say that all the members in Anamika’s family do the household chores.
Student 2 : In case of d we can surely say that everybody is happy in her family.
5.7 | Discuss in groups of 5 to find out who usually does the following household chores in your family and write the names in the grid below. One is done for you.
Ans: After discussing in groups we found the following result.:
| Name of the house hold chores | Student 1 | Student 2 | Student 3 | Student 4 | Student 5 |
| Cooking | Mother | Mother | Mother | Mother | Father & Mother |
| Sweeping | Father & Mother | Elder sister | My self | Mother | My self |
| Shopping | Father & Mother | Father | Elder brother | Father | Mother |
| Washing clothes | Everybody | Father | Mother & my self | Father | My self |
| Feeding pets | My self | My self | Father | My self | Father |
| Cleaning bathrooms | Father & Mother | Father & Mother | Everybody | Father | My self |
| Mopping the floor | Father & Mother | Elder sister | Elder brother | Mother | Father & Mother |
Q1 : What are the household chores you usually do?
Ans: Usually we clean our room, wash our own clothes and wash our plates after eating.
Q2 : What else can you do?
Ans: We can help our mothers in kitchen, our fathers in cleaning the house, etc.
Q3 : Do you think there should be specific household chores for boys and girls?
Ans: No, I don’t think so. Anybody can do any type of work. There is no shame in it.
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5.9 | Discuss in pairs/groups and write at least 3 reasons why all the members of a family should do household chores.
Ans: After a fruitful discussion we found some reasons why all the members of a family should household chores:
1. All the members of the family can be aware of the duties and responsibilities in a family.
2. They can feel that no work is less important that the other.
3. They can maintain a cordial relationship among them.
