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ваз Discovering America : Real People, Real Stories [Text] 2 textbook : in 2 р. /
A.Yu. <...> Учебник “Discovering America: Real People, Real Stories” A результат
многих лет преподавания американистики в разных дисциплинах, от языковых
до спешаальных, а также стажировок в США и сотрудничества с
американскими коллегами. <...> Furthermore, we must thank Storyeorps, an oral history project currently
traveling the country to collect stories, which kindly granted us their permission to
use the stories recorded by Americans for listening comprehension sections. <...> Focus I: The Changing Face of American Family
'»a. <...> LISTENING I
Be are Listenin Activities
Activity I: Orientation
What do you think а “family” is — or can be? <...> Do you think a new definition of
family is starting to emerge in our society? <...> Listen to the text» from the NPR news about “а series of extensive surveys from
2003 to 2010 on what Americans, or who, I should my, Americans consider
family. " Choose the best response to complete the following statements:
1, Prof. <...> Powell thinks it’s very difficult to give the definitions of a family unit
because `
a. <...> Americans don’t know an exact definition of a family unit.
b. there's going to be a constant change in people's definitions of families. <...> C. Americans are giving Various definitions to the types of living arrangements
as families.
2. <...> Only some Americans said that a married heterosexual couple, a husband, Wife
and children counts as family.
c. By 2010, two-thirds, to over 67 percent of Americans said that a lesbian
couple with children or gay male couple with children counted as families.
d. 30 percent of those they surveyed said that pets don't count as family, but gay
couples do. ' '
e. <...> People who were opposed to same sex marriage and said that same sex
couples do not count as families, they were more likely, however, to say the
same sex couples who are legally married <...>