[00:02.17]Unit 24 Society Warm-up
[00:05.98]Exercise 2 Listen to a radio news report
[00:10.24]about changes in British society.
[00:13.23]Match the topics with the graphs below.
[00:17.35]A recent report on British society
[00:19.50]has shown that most Britons live longer,
[00:21.55]are healther,better educated
[00:23.72]and much richer than twenty years ago.
[00:25.66]However, we work longer hours
[00:27.49]and are much more worried about crime
[00:29.15]than ever before.
[00:30.59]Our standard of living has risen
[00:32.46]and the average income of British families
[00:34.13]is now nearly ￡550 a week,
[00:37.09]compared with ￡326 in 1981,
[00:40.77]which is a considerable rise
[00:42.31]even when taking into account inflation.
[00:45.20]The percentage of households
[00:46.41]with cars has climbed from 62% to 72%,
[00:50.51]while the number with central heating
[00:52.25]has increased from 61% to 90%.
[00:55.64]The percentage of households with computers
[00:57.66]has rocketed dramatically
[00:59.32]from around 3% to over 40%.
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