Unit 2:
Lesson: Reading
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
From the pictures; guess which countries do these traditional wedding dress(es) come from
Mini gameshow
Japan
China
Korea
India
Vietnam
Before you read:
In your opinion, what are the most important factors in marriage (LOVE, MONEY, A GOOD JOB, GOOD HEALTH, A NICE HOUSE/FLAT, PARENTS’ APPROVAL)? ( in Vietnam and American)
Precede(v): to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
Contractual(a): pertaining to, or secured by a contract.
Determine(v): To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
Conduct(v): The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
Oblige(v): To attach, as by a bond
Significantly(adv): In a significant manner
Attitude(n): The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

While you read:
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.

Task 1. Explain the meaning of the italicized words/phrases
in the following sentences
After you read:
Suggested answers:
1. precede:
2. determine:
3. confide in:
4. sacrifice:
happen or exist before
find out
5. obliged:
tell someone about something very important or secret
willingly stop having something you want
having a duty to do something
Task 2 and Gameshow
Rule:
Having a keyword
If you answer the questions in Task 2, you will have a suggestion
You have 5 suggestions to find keyword
Task 2. Answer the 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 Indians students’ attitudes on a
partnership of equals?
4. Why does the American wife trust her husband to do
the right thing?
5. What is the main finding of the survey?
1.They are Trust built on love, physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of equals.
2. The Americans are much more concerned than the Indians and Chineses.
3 .They agree that “ a woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man”.
4. Because he loves her not because he has to.
5. Young Asians are not as romantic as their American counterparts.

Suggestion
It`s a noun that relates to these status divorce, widow, husband,wife, bachelor
Husband and wife,they are stick together because of?
They love each other 4 a long time and move to the next page of their life.
What is the most important turning point that turns a couple into family ?
It starts with a letter “m”.
MARRIAGE
After you read:
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