UNIT 2

LISTENING: Neighborhood tour

A. Listen to Ellen describe different buildings in the neighborhood. Label the missing buildings
and places with the words from the box below.

Apartment building Bank Grocery store Pool

Grocery store Bank

Pool

Aparment building

SPEAKING: Information transfer

A. Work with a partner. One of you should look at Map A, on page 131. The other should
look at Map B, on page 133. Both of you know where the restaurant and the bus stop are, but
not all of the other places. Describe where each building is so that your partner can fill in the
blanks on their map. Then have your partner do the same for you.

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LISTENING: Where is everybody?

A. Listen to the students say where they are and who they are with. Fill in the table.

Where? With who?

Ann At home in her bedroom alone

Pete
At yard with his dog
Ellen At house in the living room with her sister
Tom At work in a restaurant with a client
Carlos At school in the library with Rachel
Diana At school in the library alone
WRITING: Where is everyone right now?

A. Where do you think your friends and family members are right now? Write sentences for
at least three of your friends or family members. Follow the example.

Certainly 100%
Probably 70-90%
Maybe 50%

Example: It is 11:30 AM on a Tuesday. My father is maybe at work. My mother is probably

at home. My younger brother is certainly at school.

3.30 friday
It is ________________________ on a __________________________.

Probably my father is at the farm.

____________________________________________________________________________

My mother is certainly in the home.

____________________________________________________________________________

My brother is maybe in the stadium.

____________________________________________________________________________

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READING: The Changing Family

A. Using the following charts, fill in the missing information in the reading below.

Chart 1: Average number of children per family Chart 2: Family living arrangements of children

50%
1976 2015 1960s 2016
Livingwith
with Living with Livingwith
Living with
40% Living
only Living with fatheronly
only
40% 41% motheronly
mother fatheronly
father only father
7%
7% 1%
1% 3%
3%
30%
Other
Other

24% 9%
9% Livingwith
Living with
20% 23% 22% 24% motheronly
mother only
23%
23%
14%
10% Other
Other Livingwith
with
11% 14%
Living
Livingwith
Living with
14% bothparents
both parents
bothparents
both parents
60%
60%
0% 83%
83%
One Two Three Four or more One Two Three Four or more
child children children children child children children children

The Changing Family

Write your answers to the following questions:
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1. How many children did your grandparents have? _________
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2. How many children do your parents have? _________
2
3. How many children do you think you will have? ________

If you are like most people in many parts of the world, the answers to those questions are getting
4 children. About
smaller with each generation. In the 1970s, most American families had ______
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_____% of families had three children, and about 23% of families had two children. Only 10% of
families had only one child. These days, most American families have ___
2 children, and families
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with only one child have doubled to ____%. In the 70s, about 40% of all families had four or
14 do. Family sizes are shrinking. Is this trend happening in your
more children, but now only ___%
home country as well?

What are the reasons for having fewer children? Money tends to be the most common reason.
In most families, both parents need to work, and child care in the United States is expensive.
Another leading reason is that parents want more time to spend on the children they have. People
have a limited amount of free time, and the more children they have, the less time they can spend
with each one. The third most common reason is simply that more parents want to have a little
more time for themselves. Raising children takes a lot of time and energy and leaves little free time
for parents.

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Another big change in families is with the parents. Traditionally, most children lived with both
parents. Many families also lived with their grandparents in the same house. In the 1960s,
most children lived with both of their parents. Only __%
1 of children lived with just one parent.
In 2016,83%
___ of children live with both parents. A total of 26% of children live with a single
person
_____________. That means either the mother or father does not live at home. 14% of ________
children

do not live with their parents at all. Most of these children live with grandparents or other family
members.

Comprehension
Match

Three reasons for smaller families A. People do not have enough money
for more children.
1. ________
a
B. People do not think the world is
2. ________
c (or will be) a good place for
children.
3. ________
e
C. Parents want more time for
themselves.
Not mentioned in the reading: D. With fewer children, you can spend
more time with each child.
________
b and _________
d
E. People are worried about
overpopulation (too many people
in the world).

SPEAKING: Your future family

A. Discuss the following questions with a partner.

1. How many children do you plan to have?
2. What are the reasons you do not want to have more?
3. What do you think about people having fewer children? What are the possible good and
bad points?
4. Is this situation in the reading similar in your own country? If yes, what are the reasons why?

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WRITING & SPEAKING: 5-minute conversations

A. Write at least three sentences for each question. Use the following cues to help you think of
more things to say on each topic:

Wh-Questions

What? Who? When? Where? Why? How?

Example: Tell me about your dream house in your future.

What? My dream house is big. It has many rooms. There is also a swimming pool!

Who? There are my future husband and three children in my house. There is also a dog.

When? I will have my house in about 10 years.

Why? I need a big house so I can have a big family.

How? In the future, I am rich!

1. Introduce yourself (name, occupation, family, personality)

My name is Diana, i like dancing.
__________________________________________________________________________________
I work in a store with my sister.
__________________________________________________________________________________
I have a boy, his name is Daniel.
__________________________________________________________________________________

2. Tell me more about your family.

I am finishing my accounting degree.
__________________________________________________________________________________
My husband studied civil engineering.
__________________________________________________________________________________
My son is ten years old.
__________________________________________________________________________________
The house of
3. Tell me about your dream house in your future. ______________________________________
my dreams will have a large garden,
__________________________________________________________________________________
it will have many rooms and
__________________________________________________________________________________
it will have a big pool.
__________________________________________________________________________________

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4. Describe your house or apartment.

My apartment has three bedrooms,
__________________________________________________________________________________
it has a living room, it has a kitchen and
__________________________________________________________________________________
it has a two bathrooms.
__________________________________________________________________________________

5. Describe your room.

My room is a big, it has a bed in front of the television
__________________________________________________________________________________
Has a window and the window is in front of the dresse
__________________________________________________________________________________
The moche table is on the side of the bed.
__________________________________________________________________________________

6. What places are in your neighborhood?

In my neighborhood there is interprovincial bus terminal.
__________________________________________________________________________________
In my neighborhood there is clinic.
__________________________________________________________________________________
In my neighborhood there are parks.
__________________________________________________________________________________

7. What are some of your favorite places (restaurants, stores, parks, etc.) in your town?
My favorite places are parks.
__________________________________________________________________________________
My favorite places are malls.
__________________________________________________________________________________
My favorite places are the sports fields.
__________________________________________________________________________________

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