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1、5. discipline 6. divorce:7. care for:8. coo:9. wedding. 10. bride:B You are going to hear some people talking about pictures of their families. Listen carefully and identify which one of the following pictures each person is talking about. Number 1 This is my family. Im married. My husbands name is

2、Bill. We have two children a boy and a girl. Our little girl is six years old, and our little boy is four. Jennie goes to kindergarten, and Aaron goes to nursery school. My father lives with us. Grandpas great with the kids. He loves playing with them and taking them to the park or the zoo. Numberer

3、 2 This is a picture of me and my three sons. Were at a soccer game. Orlando is twelve, Louis is ten, and Carlos is nine. All three of them really like sports. Orlando and Louis play baseball. Carlos is into skating. Number 3 This is my wife June, and these are my three children. Terri on the right

4、is the oldest. Shes in high school. Shes very involved in music. Shes in the orchestra. Rachel shes the one in the middle is twelve now. And this is my son Peter. Hes one year older than Rachel. Rachel and Peter are both in junior high school. Time really flies. June and I have been married for twen

5、ty years now. Number 4 This is a picture of me with my three kids. The girls, Jill and Anne, are both in high school. This is Jill on the right. Shell graduate next year. Anne is two years younger. My son Dan is in college. It seems like the kids are never home. I see them for dinner and sometimes o

6、n Saturday mornings, but thats about it. Theyre really busy and have a lot of friends. PartQ: Parent Link is an organization that looks at the problems that parents and children face. Its director, Tim Kahn, told us about the changing roles of parents and children. T: The authoritarian model was one

7、 in which the child had no rights and I guess in the 60s and parents the 70s many people rejected that and we had the sort of the permissive era the age where many parents felt they had allow their children to do whatever they wanted to do and so in a sense the roles were reversed and it was the chi

8、ldren who were the bosses and the parents who ran around behind them. The ideas that we offer to parents are kind of a third position in which were looking at equal, where parents and children are different but equal. Q: What about changes in the male-female roles? Society has changed a lot. As well

9、 as technology leading to great changes, peoples roles have changed very much, in particular the womens movement has very much questioned the role of women and led many women to demand a freer choice about who they are and how they can be. Theres a lot of frustration with how men havent changed, and

10、 it seems to me that the more the frustration is expressed the more stuck in and being the same men are and we needed to find ways of appreciating men for the amount of work that they have to do in being bread-winners and providers for families and appreciating the efforts men are making to be more

11、involved with their children. Are there any changes you would like to see in the attitude to family life in Britain? In the past there were arranged marriages and I wonder if part of having an arranged marriage is knowing that you have to work at it to create the love and that now people are getting

12、 married out of love and theres a kind of feeling that your love is there and it will stay there for ever and we dont have to work at it and when it gets tricky we dont know how to work at it and so we opt out. I think helping people learn to work at their relationships to make their relationship wo

13、rk be a significant thing that Id like to see happening.Part III Family life then and now Josephine Davies and Gertrude Smith, two members of the older generation, are talking about their childhood in Britain 70 years ago. A Now listen to the following conversation. While listening for the first tim

14、e, add more key words in the left-hand column. After the second listening, answer the questions. Josephine: We did feel far more stability in our lives, because you see . in these days I think theres always a concern that families will separate or something, but in those days nobody expected the fam

15、ilies to separate. Gertrude: Of course there may have been smoking, drinking and drug-taking years ago, but it was all kept very quiet, nobody knew anything about it. But these days there really isnt the family life that we used to have. The children seem to do more as they like whether they know it

16、s right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think. Question: What was your parents role in family life? Well, my mother actually didnt do a tremendous amount in the house, but she did do a great deal of work outside and she was very interested, for example, in the Nursing Association collectin

17、g money for it. We had somebody who looked after us and then we also had someone who did the cleaning. Well, we lived in a flat, we only had three rooms and a bathroom. Father worked on the railway at Victoria Station and my mother didnt work, obviously. My fathers wage I think was about two pounds

18、a week and I suppose our rent was about twelve shillings a week, you know as rent was - Im going back a good many years. We didnt have an easy life, you know and I think thats why my mother went out so much with her friends. It was a relief for her, you know really. Did you have a close relationship

19、 with your parents? In a sense I would say not very close but we, at that time, didnt feel that way, we didnt think about it very much I dont think. I think today people are much closer to their parents and talk about everything, which we didnt. Then, of course, we used to play a lot of games, becau

20、se we didnt have a television or even a radio and we would play games in the evenings rather than have conversation, I think. Was there more discipline in families in those days? Oh yes, I do think so, yes. We were much more disciplined and we went about as a family and it wasnt until I was probably

21、 about 18 before I would actually go out with any friends of my own. B Now try this: listen to a more authentic version of the conversation and decide whether the statements after the conversation are True or False. Put T or F in the brackets. Statements:1. Seventy years ago young people often smoke

22、d and drank in front of others. 2. Apart from a great deal of work outside, Josephines mother also looked after her children and did the cleaning in the house. 3. Gertrudes father earned two pounds a week. 4. Gertrudes family had to pay ten shillings a week for their flat. 5. Young people seventy ye

23、ars ago deeply felt that they did not have a very close relationship with their parents. 6. Nowadays people are much closer to their parents and talk about everything to them. Part More about the topic: Fathers Day The following passage is about the fathers role in the family. Supply the missing wor

24、ds while listening. Father is a very formal word today. Most people use the word DadDaddy instead. On Fathers Day children might take their dad out for a meal. They might send him a greeting card or call on the telephone, or they might buy him a present. Not all children however will see or speak with their dad on Fathers Day. Studies say about 24% of American children live in a family without a father. This is th