1 • Family

Glossary
married
age
advantage
disadvantage
wives
husbands
allowed
disabled
share
nowadays
teach
quarrel
reasons
make up
apologize
believe
presents

Description of the scene: • Nowadays families have an average

Suggested roleplays and
dialogues
• In pairs, make up short dialogues. You
and your sister are laying the table.
• In pairs, make up a dialogue in which
your sister is doing the cooking.
• In groups of three, think up a
conversation in which you three
are clearing the table after dinner.
Make comments on the
following statements
• It's nice to live in a quiet place away
from the traffic, in the suburbs.
• It's nice to have many children.
• The husband and the wife should
both go to work.
• The children should make their
own beds.
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• Children should go to a nursery.
Questions on the scene
• How many people are there in the
picture?
• What are they doing?
• What has the older girl in her hands?
• What has the father got in his hand?
• What about the boy?
• What's the mother doing?
• What's over the table?
• What's the father wearing?
• And the rest of the family?
• What's on the table?
True or false. Give reasons
• Arabs are allowed to have four
wives.
• Arab women are allowed to have
four husbands.
of six children.
• Many wives go to work nowadays.
• In the old days men didn't do the
housework.
• Nowadays married people have to
choose between having children or
having a car.
Questions based on language
functions
• What does the father say to the
children if he wants them to lay
the table?
• What do the children say if they
are watching an interesting
programme on TV?
• What does the father say if he
wants them to switch off the TV?
• How does the husband say to the
wife that he would like to have a
coffee after dinner?