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Unit two Happy Family Life (II)

Unit two Happy Family Life (II). Part I Warming up A. Vocabulary Jealous:envious. 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?. Key.

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Unit two Happy Family Life (II)

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  1. Unit two Happy Family Life (II)

  2. Part I Warming up A • Vocabulary • Jealous:envious

  3. 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?

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

  5. B Vocabulary • Treat:a source of special delight or pleasure

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

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

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

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

  10. Part II Mothers and daughters

  11. Vocabulary: • Strain:pull, draw or stretch tight • Nurture:nourish, feed • Onset:a beginning, a start • Puberty:a stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction

  12. Maternal:relating to or characteristic of a mother or motherhood • Diffuse:make less soften • Impetus:an impelling force, an impulse

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

  14. Key • Lynn : a mother’s premature death on children • the most perfect/wonderful/loving

  15. Roni Cohen-Sandler • Clinical psychologist • The daughter’s puberty

  16. Victoria Secunda • Sociologist and author • Widespread • Much before the daughter’s puberty • When You and Your Mother Can’t Be Friends

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

  18. Key • Mother: • Everything personally • Her own experience • Daughter: • Listening to me • wrong

  19. According to Victoria • In her footsteps • Looks, clothes, behavior, etc. • Betrayed • Daughter: • Different life • Mother:

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

  21. Part III A • Vocabulary: • Polygamy:the practice of having more than one wife at the same time • Intact: whole because no part has been touched, spoilt, or broken

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

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

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

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

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

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

  28. Key • 75%(1960)—69%(1970) • 60%(1980)—55%(1990) • 52%(2000)

  29. Married-with-children household • 45%(1960)—25%(today)

  30. One-person household

  31. Single-parent household

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

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

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

  35. Part IV Listen and relax • Diverge: separate and go on in different directions • Quirk:a strange happening or accident

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

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