Learning Objectives:
The Importance of Domestic Helpers
Level 1 – Social Issues
Integrated Skills Development
Listening
Many people leave their country to work in Hong Kong. They
come to Hong Kong to work because there are jobs in Hong Kong
for them.
Students will:
Gain a new perspective
Many Hong Kong families need a domestic helper (家務助理) at
regarding migrant workers
home. Domestic helpers help with cooking, cleaning, buying
Learn vocabulary related to
food, etc. They are important for Hong Kong families because
migrant workers
people are busy.
Use the simple present
tense, gerunds,
Domestic helpers in Hong Kong are often from other countries.
conditionals, etc., to make
They are far away from their family and friends. Many families are
general statements about
nice to their domestic helpers. Domestic helpers are important for
the world and “universal
Hong Kong families.
truths”
Useful Reference
Visit Mission for Migrant
Workers at
http://www.migrants.net/_ind
ex.htm to learn more about
how organisations help
migrant workers as they adjust
to the lifestyle in Hong Kong.
Listening Question
Explanation: This is a 1. According to the video, domestic helpers in Hong Kong
factual question. Refer to are often from other countries. True or False?
paragraph 3: “Domestic True
helpers in Hong Kong are False
often from other
countries.”
Keywords: Social Issues; The Individual and Society Level 1
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Explanation: This is a 2. Why do people come to Hong Kong to work?
factual question. Refer to Because there are jobs in Hong Kong for them.
paragraph 1: “They come Because their family is in Hong Kong.
to Hong Kong to work Because they like Hong Kong.
because there are jobs in Because their friends are in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong for them.”
Explanation: This is a 3. What do domestic helpers do?
factual question. Refer to They help with cooking.
paragraph 2: “Domestic They help with cleaning.
helpers help with cooking, They help with buying food.
cleaning, buying food, etc.” All these answers are correct.
Vocabulary Vocabulary Exercise
Integrative use of listening, spelling and written structures
cooking noun 1. Some people go to another country to work.
making food
Ex. Amy loves cooking. 2. Many Hong Kong families need help at home.
3. My family is going to hire a domestic helper.
country noun
an area of land that is 4. Jenny likes cooking/cleaning very much.
controlled by its own 5. Tom does cleaning/cooking for his family every week.
government, president,
king etc
Ex. China is a big country. Reading Comprehension
cleaning noun
Many people leave their country to work in Hong Kong. They
making a house, office etc
come to Hong Kong to work because there are jobs in Hong Kong
clean
for them.
Ex. Ted comes on Thursday to
do the cleaning.
Many Hong Kong families need a domestic helper (家務助理) at
home. Domestic helpers help with cooking, cleaning, buying
domestic helper noun
food, etc. They are important for Hong Kong families because
people who are paid to
people are busy.
help out with domestic
duties such as cleaning and
Domestic helpers in Hong Kong are often from other countries.
cooking
They are far away from their family and friends. Many families are
Ex. Tom‟s family hired two
nice to their domestic helpers. Domestic helpers are important for
domestic helpers.
Keywords: Social Issues; The Individual and Society Level 1
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Hong Kong families.
families noun [plural]
a group of people who are
related to each other,
especially a mother, a
father, and their children
Ex. These two families know
each other very well.
Reading Comprehension Questions
Explanation: This is a 1. According to the passage, who are important for Hong
factual question. Refer to Kong families?
paragraph 3: “Domestic friends
helpers are important for domestic helpers
Hong Kong families.” teachers
students
Explanation: This is a 2. Which of the following words means “making a place
vocabulary question. Refer clean”?
to „cleaning‟ in the cleaning
glossary. cooking
families
country
Explanation: This is a 3. In paragraph 2, what does the word “they” refer to?
reference question. Refer Hong Kong people
to paragraph 2: “Domestic domestic helpers
helpers in Hong Kong are people who cook
often from other countries. students from China
They are far away from
their family and friends.”
Speaking
Integrative use of listening and speaking
1. People are very busy in Hong Kong.
2. Many families need a domestic helper.
3. They help with many things.
Keywords: Social Issues; The Individual and Society Level 1
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Guided Writing – Domestic Helpers Are Important
1. There are many domestic helpers in Hong Kong.
2. They are from other countries.
3. They are important for Hong Kong families.
Keywords: Social Issues; The Individual and Society Level 1
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