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Listen this way. Book Two. Unit 1 Under the Same Roof Part Getting ready. A The following words and phrases will appear in this unit. Listen carefully and study the definitions. 1. kindergarten: 2. nursery school: 3. kid: 4. stability: 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 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 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 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 twenty 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 on 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 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 children 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? T: Society has changed a lot. As well 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 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 involved with their children. Q: Are there any changes you would like to see in the attitude to family life in Britain? T: 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 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 work 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 time, 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 families 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 its right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think. Question: What was your parents role in family life? Josephine: 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 collecting money for it. We had somebody who looked after us and then we also had someone who did the cleaning. Gertrude: 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 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. Question: Did you have a close relationship with your parents? Josephine: 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, because we didnt have a television or even a radio and we would play games in the evenings rather than have conversation, I think. Question: Was there more discipline in families in those days? Josephine: 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 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. 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 families 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 its right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think. Question: What was your parents role in family life? Josephine: 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 collecting money for it. We had somebody who looked after us and then we also had someone who did the cleaning. Gertrude: 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 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. Question: Did you have a close relationship with your parents? Josephine: 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, because we didnt have a television or even a radio and we would play games in the evenings rather than have conversation, I think. Question: Was there more discipline in families in those days? Josephine: 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 about 18 before I would actually go out with any friends of my own. Statements: 1. Seventy years ago young people often smoked 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 years 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 words while listening. Father is a very formal word today. Most people use the word Dad or Daddy 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 three times more than in 1960. Back then only 8% of children lived in a family without a father. One reason is the increasing children born to women who are not married. Studies show the children growing up without a father are more likely to be poor. They are more likely to leave school before completing their education, and they are more likely to become involved in crime or illegal drugs. Another reason for the large number of American families without fathers is the increasing of the number of people who have ended their marriage. The divorce rate in the US has increased sharply in recent years. Today more than 50% of all marriages end in divorce. In 1960 the rate was only 6%. After a divorce, a judge decides which parent will care for the children. In about 70% of cases, the judge decides that the children will live with their mother. In about 8% of the cases, children live with their father after a divorce and in about 15% of the cases children live with each parent at different times. The image of fathers in America has changed especially since the 1960s. Before then, many people felt that fathers were not supposed to become involved with their children or to show love for them. This was not a part of a fathers image as a strong and emotional man. Fathers were the leaders of the family. They earned the money. They made the rules. They punished the children when they were bad. Back then fathers did not always spend a lot of time with their children. Most mothers stayed at home to care for them. They also did all the shopping, cleaning and cooking. During the 1960s and 1970s, however, more American women began to work outside the home. As a result, more and more fathers became interested in taking care of their children and helping their wife. Yet, most studies today show that women still spend more time caring for their children and doing housework. This is true even if the wife works and earns the same amount of money as her husband. Several studies show that fathers who are involved with their children are usually more happy and in better health than fathers who are not involved. So celebrating fatherhood is important for men not only on Fathers Day but throughout the year. Part Memory test: Brothers and Sisters You are going to hear a young lady talking about the relationship between brothers and sisters. After that several questions will be asked. Find the right answers as quickly a possible according to the notes you have taken while listening. Woman: Well, my brother was six years younger than I, and er, I think that when he was little I was quite jealous of him. I remember he had beautiful red curls (mm) . my mother used to coo over him. One day a friend and I played, erm, barber shop, and, erm, my mother must have been away, she must have been in the kitchen or something (mm) and we got these scissors and sat my brother down and kept him quiet and (strapped him down) . Thats right, and cut off all his curls, you see. And my mother just was so upset, and in fact its the first . I think its one of the few times Ive ever seen my father really angry. Man: What happened to you? Woman: Oh . I was sent to my room for a whole week you know, it was terrible. Man But was that the sort of pattern, werent you close to your brother at all? Woman: Well as I grew older I think that er I just ignored him . Man: What about . youve got an older brother too, did . were they close, the two brothers? Woman: No, no my brothers just a couple of years older than I . so the two of us were closer and we thought we were both very grown up and he was just a . a kid . so we deliberately, I think, kind of ignored him. And then I left, I left home when he was only still a schoolboy, he was only fifteen (mm) and I went to live in England and he eventually went to live in Brazil and I really did lose contact with him for a long time. Man: What was he doing down there? Woman: Well, he was a travel agent, so he went down there to work . And, erm, I didnt, I cant even remember, erm sending a card, even, when he got married. But I re . I do remember that later on my mother was showing me pictures of his wedding, cause my mother and father went down there (uh huh) to the wedding, and er, there was this guy on the photos with a beard and glasses, and I said, Oh, whos this then? cause I thought it was the brides brother or something like this (mm) . and my mother said frostily, That . is your brother! (laughter) Questions for memory test: 1. According to the passage, how many brothers does the lady have? 2. When the sister saw her mother coo over her younger brother, how did she feel? 3. Whats her fathers reaction when he got to know that the sister had cut off her younger brothers hair? 4. How old was her younger brother when she left home? 5. Where did her brother eventually live? 6. Who was the guy on the photos with a beard and glasses? Unit 2Part I BWhen parents make a lot of rules about their childrens behavior, they make trouble for themselves. I used to spend half my time making sure my rules were obeyed, and the other half answering questions like “Jake can get up whenever he like, so why cant I?or “Why cant I plays with Angela?Jacks mum doesnt mind who he plays withorJack can drink anything he likes. Why cant I drink wine too?Jacks mum, I decided was a wise woman. I started saying things like “Of course, dear. You can drink as much wine as you like” and No, I dont mind how late you get up”and Yes,dear,you can play with Angela as often as you like.The reault have been marvelous. They dont want to get up late any more, theyve decided they dont like wine, and, most important, theyve stopped playing with Angela. Ive now realized(as Jacks mum realized a long time ago)that they only wanted to do all these nasty things because they werent allow to.Part II Radio phone-inRadio presenter: Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek phone-in. In todays program were going to concentrate on personal problems. And here with me in the studio Ive got Tessa Colbeck, who writes the agony column in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the University of Norfolk. The number to ring with your problem is 01, if youre outside London, two two two, two one two two. And we have our first caller on the line, and its Rosemary, I think, er calling from Manchester. Hello Rosemary.Rosemary: Hello.Radio presenter: How can we help you, Rosemary?Rosemary: Well, its my dad. He wont let me stay out after ten oclock at night and all my friends can stay out much longer than that. I always have to go home first. Its really embarrassing Tessa: Hello, Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you dear?Rosemary: Im fifteen in two months time.Tessa: And where do you go at night when you go out?Rosemary: Just to my friends house, usually. But everyone else can stay there much later than me. I have to leave at about quarter to ten.Tessa: And does this friend of yours does she live near you?Rosemary: It takes about ten minutes to walk from her house to ours.Tessa: I see. You live in Brighton, wasnt it? Well, Brightons Rosemary: No. Manchester I live in Manchester.Tessa: Oh. Im sorry, love. Im getting mixed up. Yes, well Manchesters quite a rough city, isnt it? I mean, your dad Rosemary: No. Not really. Not where we live it isnt. I dont live in the City Center or anything like that. And Christines house is in a very quiet part.Tessa: Christine. Thats your friend, is it?Rosemary: Yeah. Thats right. I mean, I know my dad gets worried but its perfectly safe.Maurice: Rosemary. H