Household Duties

We all have them.  We tend to hate them.  They are chores or family duties.  Chores are common conversation topic in any language.  We complain about them, we try to convince someone else to do them, or we have to stop our fun activities to do them. 

Vocabulary

• Sweep(ing)
• Mop(ping)
• Do(ing) the dishes
• Wash(ing) clothes
• Cook(ing)
• Sew(ing)
• Iron(ing) clothes
• Fold(ing) clothes
• Vacuum(ing)
• Clean(ing) the bathtub, toilet, shower, counter
• Clean(ing) my room

Grammar Structure

• I have to __________________.
• I am ______________.
• He/She is ___________________.

Warm Up

“Clean up” Song

• Procedure: teacher teaches the students the cleaning song
• “Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere
  Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share
  Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere
  Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share
  Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere
  Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share
  Barney - Clean Up Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Fly Swatter Review

• Procedure: 

1. Teacher tapes pictures of articles of clothing and parts of the house on the board.  
2. Students are divided into two teams.  
3. First representative from each team stands in front of the board with fly swatters in hand.  
4. The teacher says an article of clothing or part of the house.  
5. The two team members race to be the first one to “swat” (hit) the picture of the word.  The students only get one chance to hit the correct picture. 
6. If a student hits the correct picture that team gets a point. 
7. If neither team member hits the correct picture, neither get a point and the correct picture is identified. 
8. The next student from each team gets a chance.

Practice

Charades

• Procedure: Students can either be on two teams or work together to identify the family duty that a student is acting out without making any noise.
  
   

Pictionary

• Procedure: Students can either work two teams or together as a class to identify what family duty is being drawn. 

Production

Poster

• Procedure: Students can work in pairs or individually to create posters to hang in the room illustrates, describes, and explains why to do a specific family duty.

Story

• Procedure: Students write a short story (a paragraph or two) about doing a chore they hate. 
• Modification: Students can write a chain story about a chore they hate.  A chain story has students starting to write their story but after 1 minute the student give their story to the person on the right.  After 1 minute the students again pass the paper to the right.  Students do this a few more times until the story is written. 

Commercial

• Procedure: Students work in pairs or small groups to make a 30 second to 1 minute to sell products to make house hold duties easier (for example: swiffer wet jet for mopping)