Lesson Two FAMILY(II)
Part B Macro-Listening
(Tapescripts, Notes, Exercises with Key)
Dialogue
How's the Family?
I. Typescripts
Father Hello.
Mary Hello, Dad?
Father Yes... Mary! How are you? Is there anything wrong?
Mary Oh, no. I'm just calling to see how you and Morn are. It's been quite a while since I saw you last.
Father Oh, we're both fine. Your mother is down at the new shopping center shopping.
Mary For a new dress?
Father No, for shoes this time. How's Tom?
Mary He's fine. He likes his work and was given a raise last month. by Mr Davis. We were all pretty pleased about that.
Father Yes, I think you should be. And how are the children?
Mary Well, Billy's home from school today. It's nothing serious, just a bad cold. And it's his birthday, too.
Father Oh, I thought his birthday was May 24th.
Mary No, the 23rd.
Father Well, that's too bad. Tell him we,sent him a present.
Mary All right. Sally's still taking dancing lessons.
Father She must be pretty good by now. I'd like to see her sometime. And how's Ted?
Mary He's OK, too. He loves working on cars and has a part-time job at the garage now.
Passage
Great Changes in Family Life
Tapescript
Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry. In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many chil- dren. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry became more important than agriculture in American life, families became smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families cannot be moved from place to place as smaller families can. So, at present people tend to have smaller families.
In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consists only of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take child raising as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people's children, leaving those families free to move from job to job |