Dads also do these jobs

• Show Slide 2 or write 'obj', 'umm' and 'add' on the board and ask learners to unscramble the letters to make three new words: mum, dad, job. 
• Ask learners if they can make a question using the three words. Elicit What is your mum/dad's job?
• Introduce an alternative question, What does your mum/dad do?, and then model and drill pronunciation of question and answer with a funny response, e.g. My mum's an astronaut or My dad's an acrobat (show images if possible). 

• Put learners into pairs/small groups and show Slide 3 or give each group a set of job cards (worksheet 1 – cut-up cards) and ask them to categorise the jobs according to who they think would like those jobs more (boys/girls/both). Demonstrate with one example. 

Note: Learners may need to use L1 to explain the reasons for their choices, but monitor carefully to make sure they are using English for the target language, and help them with new language as much as possible. 

• Feedback – go through some of the jobs by asking each pair to reveal (and explain if they can) their choice. Compare with other pairs. 

Note: This is only an awareness-raising exercise to encourage learners to think about gender equality in terms of their future job choices, so while teachers may prefer more cards to be in the 'both' column, there are no right and wrong answers. 

• Tell learners they are going to read about two children – Pete and Julie – who are talking about their dads' jobs.  
• Show the image of Pete and the text on Slide 4 and ask the learners to read it quickly (one minute). 
• Remove the slide and ask learners what words they remember from the text and write them on the board. Invite them to suggest what Pete's dad's job could be. 
• Do the same for Julie's text (Slide 5). 

• Show Slide 6 or give learners a copy of worksheet 2, and ask them to read the texts again and decide (individually or in pairs) if the statements in Exercise 1 are true or false. 
• Elicit answers and encourage learners to give reasons for false answers.

Answers:

1. True 
2. False (It is Julie's dad who cooks all meals for the family.) 
3. False (Julie's dad does the laundry every day.) 
4. True 
5. False (His dad loves his job, and Pete is proud of him.) 

• Show Slide 7 and ask learners to work in pairs to answer the questions in Exercise 2 (worksheet 2) based on reading the two texts and their existing knowledge. 
• Early finishers could be encouraged to come and write on the board their suggestions for questions (a) and (e). It will be interesting to see if their opinions have changed from their initial ideas. 
• Elicit answers from the whole class.

Answers:

1. Julie's dad is a house husband or a home maker. 
2. A housewife is a woman who does domestic work at home (e.g. cooks meals, does the laundry, cleans the house, looks after the children) as her main job.
3. A house husband is a man who does the same as a housewife. 
4. 'A homemaker' is a gender-neutral way to refer to someone who does domestic work at home as their main occupation.
5. Learners may say that Pete's dad is a doctor or nurse, since he takes care of sick people. (You may need to explain the difference between doctor and nurse.)
6. Learners' personal answers

• Show Slide 8 and ask learners if they remember the jobs that Julie's dad did in the house. Elicit cooking, laundry or washing clothes, cleaning, tidying. Write them on the board. Use mime to reinforce meaning if necessary. 
• Ask learners if they can think of any other jobs done at home. They may suggest ironing, shopping, walking the dog, feeding pets, making the beds, washing the dishes, gardening, etc. 
• Explain that learners are going to ask each other who does these jobs in their house. Model and drill the question Who does the _______ in your house?

Note: You may need to be sensitive to some learners who come from one-parent families and show them that there are alternative options to 'mum' and 'dad' on the worksheet. 

• Show Slide 9 and give each learner a copy of worksheet 3 and explain that they are going to ask five (or more if time) people in the class about who does different household tasks in their house (mum/dad/brother/sister/them/another person). 
• Point out the difference of do and does in the response, depending on whether the subject is singular or plural. 
• Give learners time to circulate and complete their mini class surveys. Monitor correct use of the question. 

• Ask individual learners to provide information from their survey by asking questions such as: 

Who does (the shopping) in (Ricardo's) house?

• Learners write a short text (using worksheet 2 as a model) about one of their parents' jobs. 
• Learners write a short text about their dream job using the following prompts to help them: What is your dream job? What does this person do? Why would you like to do this job? 
• Learners make a class poster (Our dream jobs) with pictures of their dream jobs and a sentence written by each learner to explain why they would like to do it. (For example, I would love to be a pilot because I want to fly all around the world and see lots of interesting places.)