Talk about your household chores.
You can use the following questions as cues:
• What is the role of doing household chores?
• Which household chores do you do? How often?
• Which of the chores do you like doing most?
• Which of the chores do you dislike doing most?
Useful languages:
Useful vocabulary | Useful structures |
* do washing-up, cleaning the house, taking out the rubbish, cooking, feeding the cat, watering plants, shopping, sweeping the house,... * improving skills, being more responsible, building self discipline, being more active, | • In my opinion,... • I think... • I do ... once a day/ twice aday/... • I also ... in the morning/ in the afternoon. • I like ... because ... • I dislike ... because ... |
Complete the notes:
Structures of the talk | Your notes |
What is the role of doing household chores? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Which household chores do you do? How often? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Which of the chores do you like doing most? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Which of the chores do you dislike doing most? | __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ |
Now you try!
Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.
1. In my opinion, doing housework is ... because ...
2. I do ... in the morning.
3. I also ... twice a day.
4. I like ... and ... because ...
5. I don’t like ... and ... because ...
Now you tick!
Did you ...
q answer all the questions in the task?
q give some details to each main point?
q speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?
q use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?
q use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?
q pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?
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