Read the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

Why do parents have to get involved in their child’s education? Basically, parents’involvement in their child’s learning process offers many opportunities for success. According to Centre for Child Well-Being (2010), parental involvement in their children’s learning not only improves a child’s morale, attitude, and academic achievement across all subject areas, but it also promotes better behavior and social adjustment. It further says that family involvement in education helps children to grow up to be productive, responsible members of the society.

Regrettably, there are also some, if not many, parents who are quite passive in their child’s education. Some of them are not directly involved. Neither are they visible in the school premises and get involved in the desired goals of the school where their children are getting what they need most for life.

Several schools, both private and public sectors, have programs designed at intensifying parental participation such as boys and girls scouting, school-community socio-economic projects, disaster volunteer task force, and school-community work brigade. However, increasing parental involvement remains a tough challenge among school administrators and their teachers despite clear programs, concerted efforts, and strong motivations.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

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:

Complete the notes:

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)?

 Let’s compare!

In Singapore, people (live) __________in nuclear families.

What is true about the parents who are passive in their child’s education?

Comptete the following sentences using the given words in the box.

E.g. My aunt__nurtured__an orphan boy two years ago.

1. Minh has a__________to do the washing-up after meals.

2. It took her five minutes to__________this dress yesterday.

3. My mother is the person who manages household__________.

4. Family life today is likely to be influenced by the__________family.

5. __________household chores is good for the relationships Within the family.

6. Mark often does the__________when his dad is away.

7. Linda is responsible for__________the table before each meal.

8. Nancy became a__________after her husband left her.

9. I live in a(n) __________family and my parents are enough modern.