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Life skills B1 Unit

Contributing to family life VIDEO SKILLS: Understand new vocabulary


Look at what Grace says:
Before watching
1 I pick him up from school. (0:28)
1a Complete the sentences with responsibility,
2 She gives me more freedom. (0:44)
responsibilities or rights.
3 Now I realise how hard my mum works. (0:51)

BE A RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN! To understand the underlined words ask yourself:


■ Is it important to understand this? If not, I can forget
1 Defend your but also know your it for now.
. ■ Can I guess its meaning from the context?
2 Respect other people’s . ■ Is it part of the word family of a word I know?
3 Take for your actions.
3a 03 Watch again. Match the teenagers to one or
4 Think before you take on new . more of these ‘lessons in life’.
1 When you make a decision, you have to accept the
1b Do you think these things are a right (RI), a good and bad things about it.
responsibility (RE) or both (B)? 2 Helping someone else can make you happy.
1 helping at home
2 free time 3 You don’t know how hard others work until you do
their work.
3 having a pet
4 If you’re responsible, people give you more
4 pocket money
freedom.
5 privacy
6 looking after someone 3b Complete these sentences with your opinion.

While watching 1 I think has the biggest responsibility


because ...
2a 03 Read the questions. Then watch the video
2 I think has learnt the most important
and write the teenagers’ names.
lesson in life because ...

After watching
4a Think of a person you know with similar
responsibilities to those of one of the people in
Grace Louis Jessica the video. Write a description of the person and
his/her responsibilities in your notebook.
1 Who spends time with ... ?
a a pet 4b SKILLS 4 LIFE Your rights and responsibilities don’t
b an older family member stop outside the home. Create a poster of your
rights and responsibilities at school and in your
c a younger family member
town/city. Follow these steps.
2 Who has to ... ?
1 Make a list of at least one right and one
a go to see him/her
responsibility in each place.
b help with homework
c take him/her home We have a right to …
d take him/her out We are responsible for …
e take food
f make food 2 Design your poster. Decide what you are going to
write and what photos or drawings you could use to
2b 03 VIDEO SKILLS Read the video skills box. Then make your message clear.
watch again and answer the questions. 3 Find the things you need. Then make your poster.
1 Why does he/she have the responsibility?
a Grace: REFLECT ON IT
b Louis:
Read the following paragraph. Do you agree with
c Jessica:
it? Can you think of other examples?
2 What’s difficult about the responsibility?
We live in a world where people defend their
a Grace:
rights but ignore their responsibilities. People
b Louis: want a clean city, for example, but they drop litter
c Jessica: in the street.

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