LISTENING AE1

Siblings Relationships
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WARM UP VOCABULARY
01 Answer some basic questions 02 Learn new words about the topic

LISTENING Watch video

03 Answer the listening exercises 04 Answer questions

REVIEW
05 Overview the whole lecture
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Warm up
Answer some basic
questions

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 vocabulary
Learn new word about the
topic
 03
listening
Answer the listening exercises
 True - false

1. President Bill Clinton was born in 1946. True

2. 2. Bill and his half-brother had similar childhoods. True

3. In 1978, Bill was elected governor of Alaska. False

4. Roger was an excellent student. False

5. Roger has spent half of his adult life struggling to develop

a career as a rock singer. False
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Sibling Relationship WORDS
How sibling relationships contribute to (6) later success
1. Birth order
- First-born children tend to garner success. They are also more likely to be more educated,
have higher levels of intelligence and have (7) larger income/ more income.
- Middle-born children have lower chance of getting financial support and are (8) least likely to
have high academic abilities. They have to suffer (9) financially later in life.
2. Reasons:
- First-born and (10) only children spend more time in an "adult" environment which means
they get more parental attention, more (11) mental stimulation, and more valuable (12)
feedback from parents.
- In contrast, middle-children have to (13) compete for attention and the family’s (14) economic
resources among siblings.
- (15) Youngest siblings, on the other hand, receive more attention and resources thanks to
other siblings’ maturity.
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WORDS
3. Factors that affect the differences within families, (16) development, and success:
- Gender:
+ The difference between parents’ treatment of sons and daughters is (17) significant
+ Boys are allowed to be more independent than girls.
+ Fathers spend more time attentively responding to their sons than to their daughters.
- Genes: All of us are different individuals. Genes do have an influence on success.
- (18) Family size: More important than birth order. A family which has poor resources
and interactions can lead the children to face negative impacts.
- (19) Hardship : lots of unpredicted events such as (20) divorce, abandonment, losing
jobs, death of parents or house demolition can affect different things in different
ways.
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What other types of unhealthy
sibling relationships do you
know of?
What do you think
about the video?
 Do you have a difficult
relationship with your sibling?
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