Unit 2 Reading12 (Chuan)

UNIT TWO
WORK IN PAIRS. DISCUSS THE QUESTION:
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Love
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A nice house/ flat
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Money
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A good job
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Parents’ approval
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Good health
Which of the following factors is the most important for a
happy life ? why ?
- romantic [rou'mæntik] (a)
- attract (v)/ attractiveness (n)
- contractual [kən'træktjuəl] (adj)
- On the other hand:
- survey ['sə:vei] (n)
- conduct ['kɔndʌkt] (v)
- confide [kən'faid] (v) in sb
- A large number of :
- significantly [sig'nifikəntli] (adv)
- romanticism [rou'mæntisizəm] (n)
- response [ri'spɔns] (n)
- Be supposed to do sth (v)
Lãng mạn
Thu hút; sự thu hút
Khế ước

Trái lại
Sự khảo sát
Tiến hành, chỉ đạo
Tin ai, giãi bài tâm sự với ai
Many
Importantly
Sự lãng mạn
Answer
Có nhiệm vụ
1. Vocabulary
2. Task 1: Explain the meaning of the italicized words / phrases in the
following sentences
1. Love is supposed to follow marriage, not precede it
2. A survey was made to determine their attitudes toward love and
marriage
3. They agree that it is unwise to confide in their wives
4. An Indian woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man
5. A husband is obliged to tell his wife where he has been
Choose their meaning :
a. Having a duty e. happen or exist before
b. Trust
c. Willing to stop having something you want
d. Find out
Answer keys
1. precede : happen or exist before
2. determine : find out
3. confide : trust
4. sacrifice : willing to stop having something you want
5. obliged : having a duty
- They are Trust built on love, Physical attractiveness,

Confiding, and Partnership of equals
- The Americans are much more concerned than the Indians
and Chineses
- They agree that “a woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage
than a man”
- Young Asians are not as romantic as their American
counterparts
3. Task 2: Answer the following questions
1. What are the four key values in the survey?
2. Who are much more concerned with physical attractiveness
when choosing a wife or a husband , the young Americans
or the young Asians?
3. What are the Indian students’ attitudes on a partnership of
equals?
4. Why does the American wife trust her husband to do the
right things?
- Because he loves her not because he has to
5. What is the main finding of the survey?
4. Task 3: Discuss the question:
what are the differences between a traditional Vietnamese
family and a modern Vietnamese family?
Ideas
A traditional
Family
A modern
Family
1. Number of children?
2. The kind of the family?
3. The head of the family?
4. Who works?

5. Who takes care of the
house and children?
6. The income?
A lot of
One or two
Extented Nuclear
Fathers Both parents