UNIT 1: FAMILY LIFE

I. Odd one out

1. A. benefit B. Collaborate C. laundry D. vulnerable
2. A. contribute B. critical C. handle D. burden
3. A. extended B. responsibility C. enormous D. routine
4. A. benefit B.society C. homemaker D. iron
5. A. breadwinner B. nurture C. laundry D. reluctant
6. A. cereal B. critical C. create D. psychology
7. A. baths B. joins C. thinks D. shifts
8. A. laughs B. weighs C. reminds D. humans
9. A. financial B. cereal C. dance D. decide
10. A. critical B. enormous C. contribute D. Child-minder
II. Give the correct form of the words in brackets:
1. One recent survey found that men’s contribution in the home had increased almost threefold in the last
four decades. (contribute)
2. A mother’s love can be as beneficial as breastfeeding. (benefit)
3. In the traditional Japanese family system, the entire estate of the family and the financial assets are
transferred from the father to the eldest son. (finance)
4. Mrs. White spoke critically of her husband because he didn’t share anything with household chores.
(criticize)
5. My aunt works enormously hard to support her family because her husband died in a car accident a year
ago. (enormous)
6. When we have some trouble in our family, we should have family meetings to work out a solution
(solve)
7. I’d like to express my deep sense of GRATEFUL to the staff for their patience. GRATEFUL
8. She found it difficult to be in charge of the household FINANCIALy FINANCIAL
9. We were always the one to be PREPARATION for any eventuality. PREPARATION
10. Most peole will receive ENORMITY benefits when sharing the housework in their family. ENORMITY
III. Choose the best answer:
1. Women whose husbands do not contribute to household chores are more vulnerable to illness.
A. happy B. easy to be hurt C. invincible D. friendly
2. It’s unfair to state that a woman's job is to look ....... everyone in the family and take care ..... the house.
A. in - on B. after - in C. of - of D. after - of
3. Excuse me, ............. you ................ your newspaper? Could I borrow it?
A. are - read B. do - read C. are - reading D. do - reading
4. We .................. how to use energy more efficiently now than in the past.
A. knows B. knowing C. are knowing D. know
5. Would you like to join Linda and me tomorrow? - We ............................... the natural history museum.
A. are visiting B. going to visit C. visit D. both A & B
6. I’ve bought a piano . It .............................. this afternoon.
A. is going to be delivered B. is going to deliver C. is delivered D. is delivering
7. You are old enough to take ............................... for what you have done.
A. responsible B. responsibility C. responsibly D. irresponsible
8. My grandparents ………. with my family at present and my grandmother …… me how to cook several
traditional Vietnamese dishes.
A. stay/ instruct B. stay/ is instructing C. are staying/ is instructing D. are staying/ instructs
9.I have to get up early tomorrow. I ..... a physics class at 8 in the morning (will teach/teach/teaches/am
teaching
10.......is the state where things are of equal weight or force (A. Balance/ B. Changing/ C. Moving/ D.
Importance
11. As a housewife, she stays at home and .............. children. (A. natures/ B. nature/ C. nurtures/ D. nurture)
12. Tom: “Which of the chores do you dislike doing the most ?”  Jerry: “ “.
A. I like cooking and sweeping the floor
B. I do the laundry, cook and wash the dishes
C. Well, my favorite activity is doing the washing-up
D. Washing the dishes, because I often break things when I do the washing-up
IV. Correct one mistake in each of the following sentence:
1. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to help you and family members feeling more in touch with each
other .
2. They’re becoming more popular now as more people are knowing about them and are downloading
their music
3. After he will leave high school, he will enter a university.
4. What are you cooking? It is smelling very nice.
5. We usually split the housework equal – my mom cooks, my dad cleans the house and does the washing-
up
V. Rewrite the following sentences:
1. She has no intention of buying a car.
--> She is not intend to buy a car
2. They’re in the bath at the moment (using the present continuous)
They are being in the bath at the moment
3. Mary has the habit of going on excursions with her classmates at the end of every month.
--> Mary often goes on excursions with her classmates at the end of every month.
4. I am in the middle of the cleaning my football boost. (using the present continuous)
I am cleaning my football boost
5. We plan to travel to France next year.
--> We are going to travel to France next year
6. It is the duty of the young people to take care of their elderly parents. (responsible)
It is responsible of the young to take care of their elderly parents
7. We intended to visit the museum, but we didn’t have the time.
--> We were
8. It is my job to look after my younger brothers. (responsibility)
It is my responsibility to look after my younger brothers.
VI. Rearrange the words/phrases to make a meaningful sentence:
1. retiring/ Linda/ is/ thinking/ early/ of/ she/ anymore./ because/ isn't/ happy/ at work//
1. The company's financial situation is improving at the moment
2. oil supplies/ some experts/ say/ will/ the next 20 years./ start/ to fall/ within/ that//
Linda is thinking of retiring early because she isn't happy at work anymore.
VII. Complete the sentences with a verb below in the correct form.
do empty lay make (x3) take tidy wash (x2)
1. Why didn’t you tidy your bed this morning?
2. I can’t come out now. I ’m do the cleaning.
3. Could you empty the dishwasher and put the things away, please?
4. It’s not fair. I make breakfast yesterday. Nam should make it today.
5. Look at this bin! Please take the rubbish out now.
6. Mum, I’ve tidied my room. Can I go out now?
7. Phong, lay the table. It’s nearly dinner time.
8. A: “Where’s Dad?” B: “He’s washing the car. He always washs the car on Sundays.
VIII. Fill in each blank with the correct word/ phrase from the box.

critical nurture equally shared parenting extended finances

gender convergence benefits enormous contributes financial burden

1. Mr Long has found that his wife receives a great deal of love when he contributes to chores.
2. In fact child care seems to have some important benefits for young children.
3. Ho Xuan Huong was a female poet who was critical of gender inequality.
4. Ties with the extended family are generally very close.
5. Mothers play a (an) enormous role in the lives of their children and the bond is very strong.
6. Fathers and mothers who follow equally shared parenting have made a conscious decision to share equally in
the raising of their children, household chores, breadwinning and time for recreation.
7. Overall, women’s time in domestic work has been declining and we see a slow but continuing trend of
finances in work time and the domestic division of labour.
8. She goes to work too and does everything else including all the gender convergenc, laundry, cleaning and
child care.
9. More than one-fourth of American families faced nurture due to medical costs.
10. When your child was young, your role was to ____________ financial burden _______ and guide him.