1. Pre-reading questions- How many people are there in your family? Do you live with your grandparents? Does your mother need to work outside the home?
2. Reading comprehension questions
- What are a nuclear family, single-parent family, a blended family, and an extended family? (P1-4)
- What is the benefit of living in an extended family? (P5)
- What change happened in American families in the last century? What reason could explain this change in families? (P6)
- Why did mothers no longer stay at home? (P7)
- What are explanations for an increase in the number of single-parent families? (P8)
3. Usage and grammar
- This was especially important in societies where mothers had to work outside the home, raising crops or gathering food. (lines 26-28)
- Mothers could work outside the home while other family members were available to take care of the children ... (lines 29-31)
- The growth of industry made it possible for many yound people to leave their families ... (lines 35-37)
- Since 1970, the number of ... has increased tremendously. (lines 50-51)
4. Collocations
- consist of (line 4)
- a quarter of ... (line 7)
- raise crops (line 28)
- gather food (line 28)
- take care of (line 30)
- do household tasks (line 31)
- one of the biggest changes in families (line 32)
- a decrease in the number of extended family (line 33)
- a majority of children (line 37)
- as long as (line 41)
- before long (line 47)
- contribute to (line 65)
- adapt to (line 69)
5. Quizlet
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