Unit 7 Changing Times

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Unit 7 Changing Times
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Discussion of new trends

• DINK double income no kids
• Successful single career women
• Life of simplicity
• Volunteering work
• Plastic surgery
• Children-centered family

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Lesson A (2) answer

• a. 4
• b. 7
• c. 1
• d. 2
• e. 3
• f. 6
• g. 5

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Lesson A (3A) answers

• 1. who is required
• 2. who is required
• 3. that is optional
• 4. who is required
• 5. which is optional

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Lesson A (3B.2) Answers

• 1. who/ that
• 2. that/ which that /which
• 3. who/ that
• 4. which
• 5. whose

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Lesson A Part 6 Listening

• The new generation
• is more concerned with developing as an
  individual and trying to get a career going
  before getting married and starting a family
• Expects more material things
• Is more accepting of differences, such as race,
  religion, and gender

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Lesson A (7A.2) Answers

• Thesis statement
• Last month I took a giant step and finally moved
  to a new apartment.
• Comments
• in the beginning, I was a little scared. I was
  also a little concerned about feeling lonely.
• Details
• the decision to talk things over with a roommate,
  finding an affordable studio, decorating the
  apartment.

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Lesson B2 (3) Goal achievers

• to make a big deal of something to exaggerate
  the seriousness of a problem.
• to stick to something to limit yourself to
  something and not change to something else.
• to get distracted to be taken away (or have your
  attention taken away) from something you should
  or want to be doing.

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• to be methodical to do things in a very ordered,
  careful way.
• factor a fact or situation that influences that
  result of something.

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Lesson B Setting Goals

• Discussion
• What personal habits you would like to change in
  your life? Ask your partners to suggest solutions
  to your problems.
• Which priority is the most important to you and
  why? (p.62 B)

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Lesson B Part 2 Goal Achievers (answers)
Goals How they achieved them
Charles To lose weight Joined a weight-loss program
Melissa To get a college scholarship Improved in her weakest subjects, and researched and applied to some colleges
Brian To reduce stress and relax Stopped working in stressful jobs, spend more time with his family, and sold some possessions
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Lesson B (3A) Answers

• 1. I need to work on my communication skills
  because sometimes I feel as if Im not getting my
  message across.
• 2. I like to work by myself so that I dont feel
  as if/as though Im being pushed around by
  anybody.
• 3. Lately, Im trying to spend more time with my
  family and friends as/the way I did before I got
  involved in so many other activities.

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• 4. I have to establish more realistic goals
  as/the way my career advisor has suggested.
• 5. these days, women are not expected to stay at
  home as/the way their mothers did in the past.
• 6. sometimes I feel as if/as though Im not doing
  enough exercise and I spend too much time sitting
  at a desk.

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Lesson B 3B(2) possible answers

• 1. I feel as if I need a long vacation.
• 2. I dont need to be with people all the time as
  I did in the past.
• 3. I feel as though I never have time to sit down
  and read a book.
• 4. I would like to spend more time with my
  friends the way I did when I was a teenager.
• 5. I still enjoy swimming just like I did as a
  child.

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Lesson B6 (A1)

• rat race a stressful, competitive routine. Rat
  race usually refers to the rush of daily life
  (commuting to work, working long hours, not
  having enough time for ones family, etc.)

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