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Unit 3 Listening Practice

The document discusses different types of modern families as portrayed in popular television shows from the last 30 years. It provides context and comprehension questions about families depicted in The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls, and Modern Family, including details about the relationships between key characters.

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Unit 3 Listening Practice

The document discusses different types of modern families as portrayed in popular television shows from the last 30 years. It provides context and comprehension questions about families depicted in The Simpsons, Gilmore Girls, and Modern Family, including details about the relationships between key characters.

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Listening practice Unit 3

Blood is thicker than water


1 Read the words and the definitions. Make sure you understand them before listening.

stepparents: the man or woman who is married to someone’s mother or father but who is not their real father or mother
split up: if two people split up, they end their relationship or marriage
interracial relationship: a relationship between people of different races

2 Read the first paragraph of the listening. What do you think it will be about?

What is a family? The definition of the word family has changed a lot over the last 30 years or so. Gone are the days when it was
assumed that a family meant a married couple with any number of children of their own. Now, families can be made up of one or
two parents or stepparents and any combination of children, stepchildren or adopted children. This is clearly demonstrated by the
different TV series that have existed over the last three decades.

3 03 Listen and circle T (true) or F (false). Give reasons 5 03 Listen again. Choose the best answers.
to justify your answers. 1 Marge is Homer’s …
1 Families are always made up of two parents and some a mother.
children. T / F b spouse.
c ex-wife.
2 The Simpsons doesn’t represent an American family because 2 Lorelai …
it’s a cartoon. T / F
a divorced Rory’s father.

b didn’t tell Rory’s father about the baby.
3 Gilmore Girls is about a single mother and her daughter.
T/F c split up with Rory’s father after Rory was born.
3 Jay is married to someone …
4 Gloria is Jay’s first wife. T / F a who is from a different country.
b who is from a different religion.
5 Claire and Mitchell are siblings. T / F c who is a distant relation.
4 Claire is Gloria’s …
a sister-in-law.
4 03 Listen again and answer the questions in your b daughter-in-law.
own words. c stepdaughter.
1 When did The Simpsons first appear on TV? 5 Jay has …
a two children and three grandchildren.
2 What is the relationship between Lorelai and her daughter b three children and four grandchildren.
like?
c three children and two grandchildren.

3 Where is Gloria from?

4 What relation is Jay to Manny?

5 Does Jay’s son Mitchell have a child of his own?

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