Roles in the�mily 2

Look at the questions below. What is the situation in your country and why? Is it changing? What do you think the reasons are for any changes? Discuss these points in smali groups.

a)    What is the average age for people to get married?

b)    Is divorce common?

c)    If a couple gets divorced, which parent do the children usually stay with?

d)    Is it common for people to live alone?

e)    What is the average age for a woman to have her first child?

f)    What is the average size of a nuclear family?

g)    Is birth outside marriage common?

h)    Are one-parent families common?

i)    Do many people adopt children?

j)    How do parents discipline thelr children?

k)    Do parents put their children in nurseries or leave their children with childminders?

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Presentdtion Skills: When you give a presentation, you need to remember your audience and make it easy for them to follow your talk. Tasks 3 and 4 help you to help your audience by looking at different presentation minl-skills. You will practise these skills later by. presenting key ideas from an article.

Read the article on page 80 entitled Men want to be househusbands.

Look at the two OHTs in Appendix 2. One of them is a useful visual aid to support an orał summary of the article, and one is not.

a)    Decide which one is a useful visual aid, and which is not. Give reasons for your decision.

b)    Now, in groups, make a list of the characteristics of what makes a good visual aid.

® Listen to a student presenting key points from the same article. Refer to OHT 2 as you listen. Notice how the presenter expands on the points on the OHT.

When referring to a text, it is important to separate your own views from the writer's and to indicate clearly to the audience when you give your own views.

Look at the three extracts from the presentation. In which one does the presenter give his own views on the information in the article?