Listenthisway2Unit1Unit6听力原文.doc

Listen this way. Book Two. Unit 1 Under the Same Roof Part Ⅰ 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. I'm married. My husband's 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. Grandpa's 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. We're 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. She's in high school. She's very involved in music. She's in the orchestra. Rachel — she's the one in the middle — is twelve now. And this is my son Peter. He's 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. She'll 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 that's about it. They're really busy and have a lot of friends. PartⅡQ: 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 we’re 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, people’s roles have changed very much, in particular the women’s 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. There’s a lot of frustration with how men haven’t 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 there’s a kind of feeling that your love is there and it will stay there for ever and we don’t have to work at it and when it gets tricky we don’t 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 I’d 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 there's 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 isn't the family life that we used to have. The children seem to do more as they like whether they know it's right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think. Question: What was y。