Unit two Happy Family Life II

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Unit two Happy Family Life (II)
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Part I Warming up A

• Vocabulary
• Jealousenvious

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• You are going to hear a man and woman talking
  about some relationships, such as parents,
  neighbors, boyfriends or girlfriends. What do you
  think which one is most important to you?

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Key

• 3. Neighbors 4
• 4. 2
• 2 The other members of the family
  3

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B Vocabulary

• Treata source of special delight or pleasure

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• You are going to listen four people talk about
  their relationships with their parents
• How about your relationship with your parents?

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Key

• Not remember very much about childhood/not very
  close/not talk very much
• Get on very well with mum/talk very openly

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• (mum) always tell me to do this and do
  that/(father) let me do what I want
• Fond memories of childhood/seemingly spoil us

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C

• First just read the following difficult sentences
  
• Then listen
• Listen again without looking at these sentences

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Part II Mothers and daughters
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Vocabulary

• Strainpull, draw or stretch tight
• Nurturenourish, feed
• Onseta beginning, a start
• Pubertya stage of adolescence in which an
  individual becomes physiologically capable of
  sexual reproduction

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• Maternalrelating to or characteristic of a
  mother or motherhood
• Diffusemake less soften
• Impetusan impelling force, an impulse

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• You are going to hear a report on the
  relationships between mothers and daughters.

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Key

• Lynn a mothers premature death on children
• the most perfect/wonderful/loving

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Roni Cohen-Sandler

• Clinical psychologist
• The daughters puberty

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Victoria Secunda

• Sociologist and author
• Widespread
• Much before the daughters puberty
• When You and Your Mother Cant Be Friends

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• Listen again and focus on what causes the
  conflicts between mothers and daughters. What is
  the advice given by experts?

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Key

• Mother
• Everything personally
• Her own experience
• Daughter
• Listening to me
• wrong

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According to Victoria

• Mother
• Looks, clothes, behavior, etc.
• In her footsteps
• Betrayed
• Daughter
• Different life

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• Let go
• A good impetus for healthy change
• mediator

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Part III A

• Vocabulary
• Polygamythe practice of having more than one
  wife at the same time
• Intact whole because no part has been touched,
  spoilt, or broken

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• Listen to the passage and complete the outline
  with the information you hear on the tape.

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Key

• I. A. Providing necessities of life
• B. Offering affectional joys
• C. Giving children to adulthood

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• II. A. Extended family
• B. Nuclear family
• C. Polygamous household
• E. brothers and sisters and sisters
  children
• F. Communal living group

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• III.
• A. Economic conditions
• B. Industrialization and urbanization
• C. Inheritance customs

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B. vocabulary

• Disintegrate become reduced to components,
  fragments or particles
• Therapist one who specializes in the provision
  of a particular therapy

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• Listening to a report on family changes in the
  U.S.A. Focus on the kinds of American households.

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Key

• 75(1960)69(1970)
• 60(1980)55(1990)
• 52(2000)
  

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Married-with-children household

• 45(1960)25(today)

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• One-person household

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• Single-parent household

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Questions

• 1. Two and a half/the aging of the American
  population/ the growing number of people living
  alone

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• 2. a. men and women / delaying marriage and
  having children
• b. the number of single-parent families /
  growing

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• 3. Increasing social isolation
• a sign of prosperity / an expression of
  American individualism

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Part IV Listen and relax

• Diverge separate and go on in different
  directions
• Quirka strange happening or accident

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• Your are going to hear a story of an identical
  twin. Listen and enjoy

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