Unit 4, Number 7, Exercise 1.0:02
Listen to the text the Family in Britain and write which of the facts in your activity book are true, false or not stated in the text0:07
the Family in Britain A typical British family used to consist of mother, father and two children.0:27
However, in recent years there have been many changes in family life.0:36
Some of them have been caused by new laws and others are results of changes in society.0:41
For example, since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorced people has increased.0:48
This means that there are a lot of one parent families.0:55
Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried couples and single parents.1:00
You might think that marriage and the family life are not so popular as they once were.1:07
But the majority of divorced people marry again and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.1:13
Another change has been caused by the fact that people are living longer nowadays and many old people live alone.1:22
As a result of these changes in the pattern of people's lives, there are many households which consist of only one person or one adult and children.1:30
Members of a family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they used to.1:41
This is because people often move away from their hometown to work and so the family becomes scattered.1:51
Christmas is the traditional time for reunions.1:58
Relatives often travel many miles in order to spend the holiday together.2:02
As a rule, each generation is keen to become independent of parents in establishing its own family unit.2:07
And this fact can lead to social as well as geographical difference within the larger family group.2:15
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