3. What are the characteristics of a wife/husband and a mother-in-law?

a) Study the following characteristics of:

Wife or husband: tolerant, considerate, faithful, affectionate to husband/wife, affectionate to children, hard-working, tidy, home-loving, good-looking, rich, thrifty, quiet, well-educated.

Mother-in-law: willing to baby-sit, attractive, generous, young (relatively), well-dressed, rich, good at organizing home, has telephone, has many interests, does not interfere, has other married children, lives nearby.

b) Put the characteristics in order of priority.

c) Cut them down to the five most important.

d) Expand them to describe exhaustively the most perfect wife / husband and mother-to-law.

4. Agree or disagree with these statements. Use topical vocabulary while providing the grounds.

1. It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

2. Every house where love abides and friendship is a guest, is surely home, and home sweet home for there the heart can rest. (Henry Van Dyke)

3. The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled. So, unless we work to strengthen the family, to create conditions under which most parents will stay together, all the rest — schools, playgrounds, and public assitance, and private concern — will never be enough.(Lyndon Baines Johnson)

4. Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it. (James H.S. Bossard)

5. Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. (Jim Rohn)

6. A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home. (The Talmud)

7. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Robert Frost)

8. It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

Domestic chores

1. Study topical vocabulary.

 Household chores: to do the chores, to do the laundry, to wash dishes and pots, to wash up, to cook meals, to do the shopping, a shopping list, to vacuum a room, to polish furni­ture, to redecorate a room (with new wallpaper).

Equality and prejudice: to consider smb inferior/superior or as an equal; to enjoy equal prospects and opportunity; equality of opportunity; conventional/unconventional attitudes/beliefs-; acceptable/unacceptable patterns/modes of behaviour; to be prejudiced against smb; to discriminate against.

2. Look at the photo and read the title and first paragraph of the text. A woman's work is never done

What do you think the text will say about: men, women and housework women and marriage?