1、Unit1Part IBSpeaker 1 not remember very much about childhood / not very close / not talk very muchSpeaker 2 get on very well with mum / talk very openlySpeaker 3 (mum) always tell me to do this and do that / (father) let me do what I wantSpeaker 4- fond memories of childhood / seemingly spoil usTape
2、 script:1. I dont remember very much about my childhood, actually. My wifes always asking me “When you were a boy, did you use to. “and I reply “I dont know, I cant remember.“ We didnt . we didnt use to talk very much, we werent very close, or if we were, we didnt show it. I remember I used to have
3、my hair cut every Friday. My father and I would go together. I had the shortest hair in the school. When theyd finished cutting it, theyd burn the ends with a sort of candle. Oh Ill never forget that smell.2. I got on very well with my mother. I used to tell her everything- or nearly everything - an
4、d shed talk to me very openly too. Sometimes shed say to me “Dont go to school today. Stay with me.“ And wed go out shopping or something like that.3. Im not a very tidy person, but my mothers very house-proud, so shes always telling me to pick things up and put them away, and do this and do that. S
5、he goes on for hours about “Cleanliness is next to godliness.“ My father isnt like that at all. He lets me do what I want. I think hes learned not to pay attention.4. I have very fond memories of my childhood. To me it represented security. We used to do a lot together as a family. I remember walks,
6、 and picnics, and going for rides on a Sunday afternoon. Every Friday, when my father came home from work, he had a treat for each of us. My mother used to say he was spoiling us, but why not? It didnt do us any harm.Part III FamilyA.The FamilyI. Functions of familyA. Providing necessities of lifeB.
7、 Offering affectionate joysC. Raising children to adulthoodD. Giving protection in times of emergencyII Patterns of familyA. Extended family - uncles, aunts, cousins and in-lawsB. Nuclear family - a husband, wife and their childrenC. Polygamous household- a husband, several wives and their childrenD
8、. Divided residence - husband and wife living separately with children raised by mothers brotherE. Nayar way of living - brothers and sisters and sisters childrenF. Communal living group- persons not biologically relatedIII Factors influencing family structureA. Economic conditionse.g. No aid from s
9、ociety or state - extended familyB. Industrialization and urbanizatione.g. Creation of many specialized jobs - nuclear familyC. Inheritance customse.g. 1. Property inherited by eldest son2. Property inherited by all of sonsTapescript:Throughout history the basic unit of almost every human society ha
10、s been the family. The members of the family live together under the same roof, they share the economic burdens of life as well as its affectionate joys, and it is the family which has primary responsibility for the important task of raising children to adulthood.The family is not a uniform concept
11、in all societies. In many places it is an extended group which includes uncles, aunts, cousins and in-laws. The family head usually has considerable influence in arranging marriages, selecting careers and determining all important moves and purchases by any member of the family. Particularly in cond
12、itions where society or the state does not give aid and where consequently the responsibilities of the family are greater, this larger group provides better protection in times of economic or other emergency.In many other societies, including most industrialized ones, the “nuclear family“ is the bas
13、ic social unit. This term refers to a husband and wife united through marriage and their dependent children, whether natural or adopted. Industrialization and urbanization create many specialized jobs which tend to scatter family members among different employers and thus to separate residences as s
14、oon as they become wage earners. The small family, which has only one - or if the wife works also, two -employed members, is better able to adapt to rapid change and to move when the job moves.The nuclear family is almost universal and the nuclear group of father, mother and their children is recogn
15、ized even when it is part of an extended family. There are cases, however, which strain the definition. Polygamy, for example, brings several wives and their children into the picture. But polygamous households are not common in any society. More difficult to explain are the cases of divided residen
16、ce. Among the Ashanti people of Africa, where the wife and husband do not reside together, the child gets training and affection from the mothers brother and learns that his mothers husband is “not his family.“ An even stranger situation existed with the Nayar of India before being changed by outsid
17、e influence. There the household consisted of brothers and sisters and the sisters children. The sisters were not married and the brothers simply took care of whatever children their sisters had.Inheritance customs also have an influence on the structure of the family. In England the farm was passed
18、 on to the eldest son in order to keep the family land intact. Younger sons had to go out and start a new farm or join the army or move to town and take up a trade. They provided a large part of the labor supply during Englands industrialization process. In many areas of the European continent all o
19、f the sons shared equally in the inheritance and more extended households were common.Although the exact form varies from place to place and time to time, we can say that the family is the original and the most natural social group. The ties we develop by long intimate association with the small gro
20、up of persons who are biologically related to us cannot be matched in any of the forms of communal living which are tried every now and then.Unit 2 Part I Warming upA.Tapescript:1. Organized activity on behalf of womens rights began in the mid 1800s, when both by law and by custom, women were consid
21、ered “non-persons.“2. In the early tg00s, important changes occurred in the social and political climate in America as a result of World War I.3. In 1920 after World War t, American women gained the right to vote.4. During World War II, large numbers of women entered the job market to do the jobs of
22、 the men who had been drafted into military service.5. Today, women make up 1.5% of the 200,000 professional firefighters in the U. S., and they make up 4% of airline pilots and navigators.6. The Small Business Administration predicts that women will own nearly 40% (others Say half) of all small bus
23、inesses in the U.S. by the year 2000.7. From 1980 to 1988, the number of business men and women- entrepreneurs - increased 56% overall, but during that period, the number of female entrepreneurs grew 82%.8. In 1969 in the U. S., only 4% of the state lawmakers were women. By 1993, this number had gro
24、wn by 500%, and 20.4% of state legislators were women.9. Today, only 10% of American families have the traditional working father and the mother who stays home to take care of the children.10. The rate of womens participation in the workforce rose from 27% in 1940 to 44% in 1985.B.Speakers Key words
25、Lynne friends / child-free / respect for their choice / not myopinion / had to have children / dont know whyIrene daughter the same / eager / get married / have children/ thinking about / 8 or 9 years old / observe me as amother / other mothersBarbara Yes, thats how I was.Tapescript.L- Lynne I- Iren
26、e B-BarbaraL. I have many, many friends who have opted for a child-free life. I have a great deal of respect for their choice. But therein lies the key. It was their choice. Infertility was not my choice. Is a woman less of a woman without children? Absolutely not in my opinion, but I had to have ch
27、ildren. I dont know why. People have asked us, yknow, “Well what was that just made you so obsessed and compelled and driven?“ I dont know. I dont. I dont know that Ill ever know. All I know is I had to have children.I. Well, my daughter, interestingly enough, is the same way. Shes very eager as soo
28、n as she finishes law school to get married and have children. And we talked about this and she said, “Mom, you dont understand. Ive been thinking about having children since I was eight or nine years old.“C1. The difference between men and women when they surf the Internet according to the study co
29、nducted by Media Matricks and Jupiter Communications:Women: as a toolMen: tend to spend more time playing around2. The different reasons why women use the web:check email / chat / look for information / resources / studying searchTapescript:For the first time ever the number of women on the web has
30、surpassed the number of men, pushing the huge growth of females between the ages of 12 and 17.Music websites like are attracting teen girls and so are sites focused on fashion and shopping. An unscientific survey of teens, mostly girls attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California,
31、 shows teens are using the World Wide Web for many reasons.F. My name is Fi and Im 16. I check my email on the net and I chat sometimes. Thats all I did.P: My name is Sonia Fay Phillips. Im 17 years old. Mostly I use the Internet for, uh, look(ing) up for my college information or check my email or
32、chat. I use., mostly use it for resources and studying because I dont have time for play and stuff.M: My name is Lucien Morrison. Im 17. And I use the Internet to chat on, to get codes for play station games, to check my email and to play games on.M: Im Meesha. Im 14 years old. I usually just search
33、 on the web, just anything Im looking for or just search because Im bored or anything like that.Summer school students attending Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California.The Internet study released today conducted by Media Matricks and Jupiter Communications shows that men and women use
34、the web differently. Women use it as a tool. Men tend to spend more time online playing around.Among the other most popular sites reported for women on the web? for ages 35 to 44: market- and ; for ages 55 and up theyve been posting the second biggest jump in usage: aarp.org and genealogy, com.Part
35、II Working mothersB1. According to Beth, which do more and more women choose, to work or to have a child? both / not be superwoman2. According to some research, how important is a mothers role?more important in some regards than we had thought / bonding process / lasts longer3. What happens to child
36、ren if they are separated too early from their parents? often go into shock4. Why do people need concrete support of community? parents not close by / brothers and sisters in another state or country5. Does Beth think its necessary for a mother to stay home full time to be together with her children
37、? important but not necessary / if not inclined6. What is the wonderful trait that some working mothers have?a. the ability to be attentive to multiple demandsb. the ability to think about more than one thing at a timeTapescript:B - Beth I - IreneB. Its a big challenge for mothers today, because oft
38、entimes mothers feel like its an either / or proposition that they have to work or have a child. And the reality is more and more women are choosing to do both, and also not be superwomen, so its a tricky., its a tricky line to balance. But I do have a quote that says, “To choose to have a child is
39、to choose forever to have your heart walk outside of your body,“ which means, just as weve been talking about, that you are constantly attached to your child, no matter how old they get, but you will learn to walk those lines. And you will learn to create balance and harmony in your life, and youll
40、realize that not everything you do is going to send your child to a therapist. And thats wonderful.I. Yes, yes. Ive just always felt that if you loved them hard enough, and that you had . your heart kind of in the right place, which obviously is outside your own body, that there was very little that
41、 . that you could do wrong. I mean you .B. Yes. I think thats true. I think if you build a solid foundation with your child, especially in the early years, and.I. How early are we talking “early years“? I mean, by what point is the childs personality formed already?B. Well, you know theres a lot of
42、information on that that definitely is conflicting. But there are new studies coming out that are just fascinating about how important, extremely important it is for a child to be with his / her mother until theyre close to four years old. Now, that doesnt mean consistently. Im not advocating that a
43、 mother stay home full time if shes not so inclined. But theres definite research thats coming out saying that, yknow, a mothers role is more important in some regards than we had thought, and that the bonding process lasts quite a bit longer. In fact, children go into shock oftentimes if they are s
44、eparated too early. And thats why I think a lot of us are fighting for parental leave and family leave, that allows both mother and father to have time with their children hopefully within the first two years, not just the first few months.People need concrete support, and especially nowadays, I did
45、 write another meditation about people needing the support of community because nowadays we oftentimes dont have our parents close by, or brothers and sisters live in another state or even in another country. And so especially when you come home for the first few months or the first few years, you m
46、ay feel extremely isolated if you cant hook up with a co-op, a babysitting co-op, or a mothers group . And this is just a wonderful way to remind mothers that we have what Mary Catherine Bateson calls peripheral vision: the ability to be attentive to multiple demands and to think about more than one
47、 thing at a time. And I think thats a very valuable trait that mothers do have. And sometimes we think of ourselves as being scattered and airheads because of it, and thats been oftentimes how weve been portrayed, but this is a wonderful, wonderful trait that mothers develop especially in the first
48、few years.I: Well, we have eyes in the backs of our heads, right?B. Exactly.I. But we are also able to keep lots of balloons in the air, which means that what we do is, you get up in the morning and you say, “I need to do this, this, this, this, and I need to go to work, and whats for dinner besides
49、.”B. Exactly.I, You get it all in order before you leave the house in the morning.B. Right, and you can take your needs into account as well as the needs of many other individuals, which is extremely important in this day and age. I mean we no longer can afford ecologically to have a one-track mind. We can no longer afford it in the family, in the work place, and I think thats something that women very much have to offer.I. I think that the
