New Horizon College English

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• New Horizon College English
• Unit 9
• Premarital Agreements

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Words using Words game
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Background Information
Pre-reading Activities

• premarital agreement
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Aristotle Onassis

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Pre-reading Activities
Background Information
premarital agreements Premarital agreements or
prenuptial agreements are binding legal contracts
between two people who intend to marry each
other.
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Pre-reading Activities
Background Information
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Born on July 28,
1929, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was first lady
of the United States during the administration
(1961-1963) of her first husband, John F.
Kennedy. She had been a newspaper reporter and
photographer before their marriage in 1953. As
first lady, she was a patron of the arts and an
international fashion-trendsetter. Under her
supervision the White House was restored and
redecorated and declared a national museum. She
was riding beside President Kenney when he was
assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov 22, 1963.
In 1968 she married the Greek shipping
millionaire Aristotle Onassis. After her second
husbands death, in 1975, she worked as an editor
in book publishing.
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Pre-reading Activities
Background Information
Aristotle Onassis Born on January 20, 1906,
Aristotle Onassis was a Greek shipping
millionaire who accumulated a fortune of more
than 500 million. Born of Greek parents in
Turkey, he went to Buenos Aires in 1923 and
became a telephone operator there. Soon Onassis
established a tobacco import business, and by
1930s he bought unused freighters at low prices
and by the end of World War II had amassed great
wealth in shipping. After the war he increased
his shipping fleet by purchasing surplus wartime
freighters. He was also one of the pioneers in
the construction of oil supertankers. Onassis
used his profits to acquire hotels and banks
throughout the world, as well as Olympic Airways.
Onassis, who was divorced in 1960, had a
well-publicized friendship with the soprano Maria
Callas. In 1968 he married Jacqueline Bouvier
Kennedy.
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Questions for discussion
Pre-reading Activities

• work in pairs to discuss the following
  questions.

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Questions for discussion
Pre-reading Activities
1. What do you think of traditional marriage?
2. What do you think of the premarital
agreements?

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Words Expression
Word Using Word Game
Expressions patterns
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Words using

• 1. if his marriage didn't work out (Para. 1)
• work out develop well prove successful
• e.g. There have been enormous problems with the
  project, but it has all
• worked out now. ??????????,????????.
• 2. he could keep his treasured ice-cream
  collection safely stored away
• in a freezer. (Para.1)
• collection n.
• 1) a set of things that have been collected
  
• e.g. a stamp collection ????
• 2) collecting or gathering
• e.g. The local council is responsible for the
  collection of domestic waste. ?????????????.

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Words using

• 3. he could keep his treasured ice-cream
  collections safely stored away
• in a freezer. (Para. 1)
• store away / up collect and keep sth. for future
  use
• e.g. You can store coffee beans away in the
  freezer to keep them fresh.
• ???????????????.
• 4. A woman insisted on verifying who would walk
  the dog. (Para.1)
• insist on /upon
• 1) strongly demand sth.
• e.g. My parents insist on coming too. ????????.
• 2) say firmly that sth. is true
• e.g. He insisted on the truth of his
  story, even though the police
• didnt believe him. ???????,?????????????.

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Words using

• 5. lawyers for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  contested the prenuptial agreement (Para. 4)
• contest vt.
• 1) argue that sth. is not right
• e.g. The divorce was not contested. ?????????.
• 2) (take part in and) try to win (sth.)
• e.g. The leadership election will be contested by
  four candidates. ?????????????.
• 6. A typical candidate (Para. 6)
• candidate n. a person who is competing to get a
  job or position, or sb.
• who is taking an exam
• e.g. There are a large number of candidates for
  the job.
• ?????????.

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Words using

• 7. The effort to shield assets to be passed on to
  children and
• grandchildren(Para. 7)
• shield vt. protect from harm defend from
  criticism, attack, etc.
• e.g. Let me shield you from the wind. ??????.
• e.g. Denis says theyre using the children as a
  human shield.
• ?????????????.
• 8. more common among retried people in their 60s
  and 70s who are
• remarrying after a spouse has died. (Para. 7)
• retire vi.
• give up ones regular work, esp. because of age
• e.g. Shes worried that she wont have enough
  money to live on when she retires.
  ??????????????.
• 2) go away, esp. to somewhere quiet or private
• e.g. We were a bit tired, so we retired to our
  hotel room after dinner.
• ?????,??????????????.

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Words using

• 9. Another situation that calls for premarital
  agreements (Para. 8)
• call for require, demand or need sth.
• e.g. Launching a new product onto the market is a
  highly complicated
• business, and careful planning is called for.
• ?????????????????,??????.
• 10. it can be impossible to enforce it in court
  if proper guidelines have
• not been followed. (Para. 9)
• enforce vt.
• cause (a rule, law, etc.)to be obeyed, or carried
  out effectively
• e.g. The teacher will enforce the rules of the
  school.
• ??????????.
• 2) make (sth.) happen, esp. by threats or force
• e.g. They enforced payment by threats of legal
  action.
• ????????????,????????????.

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Words using

• 11. some lawyers will not draw up an agreement
  once a wedding date
• has been set. (Para. 10)
• draw up write out
• e.g. The lawyer drew up a contract for the sale
  of the property.
• ?????????????.
• 2) (of a vehicle) arrive at a certain point and
  stop
• e.g. A taxi drew up in front of the hotel.
  ??????????.
• 18. Such lawyers counsel their clients never to
  send out wedding
• invitations (Para. 10)
• invitation n. inviting a request to go or come
  somewhere
• e.g. I got a letter of invitation yesterday.
  ??????????.
• 2) sth. which encourages sb. to do sth.
• e.g. Officials believe that allowing
  government-backed loans would be an invitation to
  fraud.

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Words Game
think about
complete the based on the meanings
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Words Game a set of things that
have seen collected


collection
verify
make certain of or prove the truth of sth.
negotiate
discuss sth. in order to reach an agreement
relation or influence
bearing

remove a word, letter, etc from a piece of writing
delete
enforce
make people obey a rule or law
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Words Game
think about
match the phrases with their meanings
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Words Game
guess the meaning of these words store away
demand that
sth. should be done insist on
get more of sth.
gain in
keep sth. for future use under
pressure make sth. easier to
understand send out
almost very nearly just
about
influenced by urgency or other form of pressure
shed light on
send sth. to a number of people
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Text Analysis
Part I (14) Introduction of prenups
Text Structure
Part II (58) Who want prenups
Part III (914) Some points to be taken care of
regarding prenups
Part IV (1516) Evaluations of prenups
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Text Analysis
devices for developing it
a general statement supported by example
(paras 12-13)
example 1
An agreement is stuck under somebodys nose on
the day of wedding
general statement
To avoid a prenuptial agreement under
pressure Lawyers counsel their clients never to
send Out wedding invitations until both
signatures Are on the agreement.
example 2
Two sides were still editing the contract
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• summary
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  Main Idea
• The essay focuses on one special phenomenon
  prenups or premarital agreements. The writer
  wants to tell us what prenups are, who want
  prenups, the points to be taken care of before
  signing prenups and finally a general evaluation
  of prenups.

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writing
Writing Practice

• write your composition on the topic of Bad
  habits can
• ruin your health with the writing skill a
  general
• statement supported by example

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writing
Writing Practice
Bad habits can ruin your health

General statement Bad habits can ruin your
health Examples 1. Excessive coffee drinking 2.
Skipping breakfast 3. Eating too much before
sleep 4. Smoking, excessive drinking
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Exercises

• Learn the new words and expressions of the text
  by heart.
• Go over the text and try to get the main idea of
  the text.
• Do the exercises on pages.

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Everyday Sentence

Happiness is form courage .( H. Jackson , British
writer ) ??????????? (???? ???. H.)
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Thank You for Your Attention!