1、Unit1Part 1B1.Woman: 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
2、loves playing with them and taking them to the park or the zoo.2.Man: 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.3.Man: This is my
3、 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
4、school. Time really flies. June and I have been married for twenty years now.4.Woman: 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
5、 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.CWoman: 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
6、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, a
7、nd 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
8、 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 a
9、nd 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 los
10、e 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
11、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
12、 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.
13、 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?PART 2A and B Radio presenter: Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek Phone-In. In todays program we re going to concentrate on personal problems
14、. And here with me in the studio Ive got Tessa Colbeck, who writes the.in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the University of Norfolk. The number to ring with your problem is oh one, if you are outside London, two two two, two one two two. And we have our first calle
15、r 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
16、 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
17、leave at about a 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 ,BrightonsRosemary: No, ManchesterI live in Manchester.Tessa: oh. Im sorry, love. Im gett
18、ing 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
19、 right. I mean, I know my dad gets worried but its perfectly safe.Maurice: Rosemary. Have you talked about this with your dad?Rosemary: No. He just shouts and then he says he wont let me go out at all if I cant come home on time.Maurice: Why dont you just try to sit down quietly with your dad- somet
20、ime when hes relaxed-and just have a quiet chat about it? Hell probably explain why he worries about you. It isnt always safe for young girls to go out at night.Tessa: Yes. And maybe you could persuade him to come and pick you up from Christines house once or twice.Rosemary: Yes .I dont think hell a
21、gree to that, but Ill talk to him about it . Thanks.Part 3Josephine: 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
22、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 d
23、ifferent 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 someb
24、ody 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 suppo
25、se 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 yo
26、ur 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, be
27、cause 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 wa
28、snt 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
29、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 e
30、verything to them.Part 4Q: 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 perhaps
31、 the 70s many people rejected that and we had the sort of the permissive era-the age where many parents felt they had to 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 t
32、hem. The ideas that we offer to parents are kind of a third position in which were looking at equals, 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 cha
33、nged 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
34、more stuck in and being the same men are and we need 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 l
35、ike 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 l
36、ove 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 would be a significant thing that Id like to see happening
37、.Part 5BLouisa: She doesnt let me watch that much TV after school, which is really annoying because most of my friends watch Home and Away and Neighbors but I only get to watch one of them. I sometimes dont I mean I think thats really unfair so sometimes I just watch both anyway.Mother: First and fo
38、remost, Louisa watches a fair amount of television whether she thinks shes deprived or not, she must watch at least 45 minutes per day. And when Im not around you know I know the child sneaks in a fair amount more than that. So she gets in a fair amount of television, certainly on the weekends. But
39、I am of the opinion that television, very very very few programs will teach them anything. And I think when a child is under your care for 18 years its the parents responsibility to make sure that the input is of value, and I dont think television, much television is of any value at all, I think rea
40、ding a book and doing her piano lessons are far more valuable than watching crummy American soap operas.Questions for memory test:1. How many TV plays are mentioned?2. For how long a time does Louisa watch TV per day?3. Does Louisa try to get more time to watch TV?4. Which activities does Louisas mother think are far more valuable?CMy parents gave me a lot of free time. After dinner, during the week when I was say even 15 years old they would let me go out until ten oclock and they would never ask where I went. I would smoke cigarettes
