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Unit 4
Outside View
Activity 1
Activity 3
Listening in
News Report
Activity 1
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Many universities in the US are offering an Adopt-a-Grandparent programme. Through this programme, student volunteers are given the opportunity to adopt a nior adult living in a local nursing home as a “grandparent”. Each week students have the chance to spend time with their adopted grandparents talking, sharing stories and participating in a planned activity. In addition to regular visits, students are encouraged to write letters and nd prents to their adopted grandparents. The elderly are also encouraged to do the same.
This programme provides nior adults with a n of purpo and belonging. Not everyone who lives in a nursing home gets visitors or enough visitors, or has grandchildren of their own. Students commit to spending one hour a week with their adopted grandparents, but some end up visiting for three or four hours a week. They do it becau they like spending time with the elderly. There is no credit offered. The programme helps students develop a n of social responsibility and community awareness. More importantly, both students and the elderly learn from each other and form a family bond.
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1. What do we learn about the Adopt-a-Grandparent programme from the news report?
2. How does the programme benefit the elderly?
Activity 2
Script
A growing number of South Korean fathers are choosing to take a break from their careers to help bring up their children. Until recently, this is still regarded unthinkable as childcare has always been considered women’s responsibility in the male-dominated society of South Korea.
South Korean women have long believed that employers give them a lower salary and don’t give them promotion becau they’re likely to take time off to have children. They are also reluctant to be stay-at-home moms, having sole responsibility for all houhold duties. The concerns among women have contributed to a record low birth rate.
President Park Geun-hye has announced a multi-billion plan to help couples to have larger families. Fathers who take paternity leave will receive a government aid equivalent to 40 per cent of their monthly income, capped at 1.0 million won. According to the plan, men and women are entitled to up to one year’s — paternity or maternity leave.
1. What is considered unthinkable in South Korea?
2. Why is there a low birth rate in South Korea?
Passage 1
Activity 1
Script
Host: There’s a question that’s been argued about for a long time. Which is more importa
nt, your family environment or your genes? Well, a story has come up in the news about identical twins, parated at birth. They’ve just been reunited. And guess what? There are some amazing coincidences in their life stories.
Here’s the story – two American girls called Tamara and Adriana were parated at birth and adopted by two different ts of parents. And this is where the coincidences begin. Both families ended up living 25 miles apart. Both girls decided to study psychology at universities that are only a mile apart from each other. Isn’t that strange?
And this girl, who’s a friend of both of them, insists they meet. Just before they meet, Adriana’s mother tells her that she has a twin sister. Can you imagine how that must feel when you’re 20 years old to learn you have a twin? And when the girls meet, it’s like looking in a mirror – they’re identical!
Now get this! Both Tamara and Adriana’s adoptive fathers died when the girls were children. Both girls fell through glass doors at the age of five – that’s hard to believe, isn’t it? Their boyfriends look alike and have similar names – Alex and Adam. And this is the b
est part – both of them have the same recurring dream. Isn’t that incredible – they have the same dream! I think it’s an amazing story. So, for all tho of you out there who have comments, and I’m sure you do, the lines are open. OK, we’ve got Josh on the line. Hi Josh!
Josh: Hi.
Host: So, what do you make of this story?
Josh: It’s a great story but it doesn’t surpri me at all. I’m an identical twin.当归煮鸡蛋的做法
Host: You are?
偶尔的尔组词Josh: Yeah, my brother’s called Toby, and we’re 22, and we’re going out with two sisters ... and we’re having a double wedding next June.
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Host: Congratulations! So, what do you think? Is it our genes that decide who we are? The kind of stories em to suggest it.
Josh: Well, I’m not a scientist, but I think so.
Host: Rearch tells us that it’s about fifty-fifty.
Josh: I, I disagree.
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Host:好作文摘抄 Thanks Josh. OK, our next caller is ...
Activity 2
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Passage 2
Activity 1
Script
Voice-over: Kidney transplants are of two kinds – transplants from dead people and living transplants, transplants from people who are alive. Mostly the donor, the person who gives the kidney, is a relative – a parent, brother or sister. We all recognize that it’s one of the most lfless things a person can do, to give a kidney to someone, but as the operation becomes safer and safer, more and more people are doing it. We talked to two sisters who have had the experience – Henrietta Longmore, a journalist aged 40, married with one son, and her sister, Teresa Parker, aged 38, married with two children. They come from a family with four children. Here’s their story.
