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Unit 1: cultural diversity
Reading
I. Before you read
Work in pairs to discuss the most important factors for a happy life.
Vocabulary
Romantic
Contractual
Response
Concerned
Majority
Reject
Vocabulary
Romantic (adj): lãng mạn
Contractual (adj): xếp đặt
Response (n): sự phản hồi
Majority (n): đa số
Reject (v), (n): bác bỏ
Unwise (adj): không khôn ngoan
II. While you read
Task 1: Read the passage and match the words with its meaning.
Precede
Determine
Confide
Sacrifice
Oblige
Willingly stop having sth you want.
Tell sbd about sth very private or secret
Happen or exist before
Having duty to do sth
Find out
Precede
Determine
Confide
Sacrifice
Oblige
Willingly stop having sth you want.
Tell sbd about sth very private or secret
Happen or exist before
Having duty to do sth
Find out
Task 2: Answer the questions
What are the four key values in the survey?
Who are much more concerned with physical attractiveness when choosing a wife or a husband, the young Americans or the young Asians?
What are the Indian students’ attitudes on a partnership of equals?
Why does the American wife trust her husband to do the right thing?
What is the main finding of the survey?
Task 2: Answer the questions
What are the four key values in the survey?
Who are much more concerned with physical attractiveness when choosing a wife or a husband, the young Americans or the young Asians?
What are the Indian students’ attitudes on a partnership of equals?
Why does the American wife trust her husband to do the right thing?
What is the main finding of the survey?
Answers
1. What are the four key values in the survey?
They are physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of equals and trust built on love.
2. Who are much more concerned with physical attractiveness when choosing a wife or a husband, the young Americans or the young Asians?
The young Americans are.
Answers
3. What are the Indian students’ attitudes on a partnership of equals?
They agree that a woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man.
4. Why does the American wife trust her husband to do the right thing?
Because he loves her not because he has to.
5. What is the main finding of the survey?
It is that young Asians are not as romantic as their American counterparts.
III. After you read
Work in groups to discuss the question: What are differences between a traditional Wietnamese family and a modern one?
Suggestions
India
Korea
Vietnam
America
China
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Homework:
Read the passage again and fill in each blank with one suitable word.
1. Parents are .......... by law to send their children to school.
2. An Indian woman has to ..............more in a marriage than a man.
3.They greed that it was unwise to.............. in their wife.
4.Love is supposed to follow marriage, not...................it.
5.An inquiry was set up to...................... the cause of accident.
6. He developed his own program in.................. with an American expert.
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