新标准初中英语第六册--MODULE 3 Now and then-Workbook（在线收听）

[00:00.00]Workbook

[00:01.97]MODULE 3 Now and then

[00:05.39]Listening andpronunciation

[00:07.77]6 Listen to the  conversation and  complete the notes.

[01:26.61]7 Listen again and  choose the correct  answer.

[02:45.57]8 Listen and say if the  underlined words are  stressed or not.

[02:53.17]1 Mabel had to share a  bed with her sisters!

[02:58.96]2 I don't think she had  any free time.

[03:03.83]3 She had a baby every  year for six years!

[03:09.94]4 What a hard life she  had!

[03:14.92]Now listen again andrepeat.

[03:42.47]Reading and speaking

[03:45.54]9 Read the sentences  from the passage. Who  says each one--the  wife or the husband?

[03:56.02]Now read the passage andcheck.

[03:59.80]Work and family lifeLaura Brent is a managerin an important company.

[04:07.89]She has threechildren--the eldest is10, and the youngest isthree.

[04:15.08]"My job was onlypossible because myhusband David wasprepared to take myplace

[04:21.94]and become a househusband," she says.

[04:25.57]More and more couplesare finding thisarrangement suits thembetter in today's world,

[04:31.39]where women are risingto the top of theircareers faster and moreeasily than they did inthe past.

[04:38.22]Many men, on the otherhand, like the idea ofstaying at home andlooking after thechildren.

[04:44.57]"My children see a lotmore of me than I saw ofmy father when I wasyoung,

[04:49.66]and I think it's betterfor them, especially forthe boys," says David.

[04:55.08]"It works just as wellfor Laura."

[04:57.77]"Now I can come homefrom a hard day at work,

[05:01.17]and immediately relaxwith the children,instead of having to dothe housework and thecooking," she says.

[05:07.83]Is there anythingDavid misses about goingout to work?

[05:11.94]"Not really. I supposethe worst thing aboutlooking after childrenand doing the housework,

[05:18.36]is not having a lunchbreak! It's a lot harderthan most men think."