Now, here are some questions to help you get started.

1. What do you think about marriage today?

2. Are you married or are you planning to?
3. What is the thing they all agree on putting first?
4. What four elements resume their comments, accoding to one of the panelists?
5. What would you suggest someone that is planning to get married?

B- Read and study in your book"Hot Topics 1", Chapter 2 Silly Sports.

Work on the following exercises:

Read the articles. Look for the answers to your questions.
Pg. 29, exercises: Check the Facts Reading1 A, B
Pg. 30, exercises: Reading 2, A, B
Pg. 31, exercise: Analyze
Pg. 32, exercise: Reading Skills
Pg. 34, exercise: PART II, Read to find the answers to these questions.
Pg. 35, exercises: Vocabulary Work / Reading Skills
Pg. 26, exercise: Talk about Your Ideas
1→ What do you think about marriage today?

In my country, specially younger people have been got into marriage from early age due to TV brainwashed.

Nowadays there is not control on it. Thereforce no all is lost. There are some people out there that want to be

marriage as they think that is the best way to deal with it. Thus, they’ll be run into many issues such, but the

power of love is powerfull.

2→ Are you married or are you planning to?

I’m not married. I’m planning to do it as soon as possible.

3→ What is the thing they all agree on putting first?

According to the video, they are agree with that marriage today has some incredible challenges to deal with.

4→ What four elements resume their comments, according to one of the panelist?

People whose want to be marriage soon or are married now, they need to evolved with the change in orden to

survive this society life that is changing every day. So the fours elements that it was mentioned in the video

were: Society, Internet, The Inventions and Culture.

5→ What would you suggest someone that is planning to get married?

As I said before, I’m no married yet, but I saw many people on that status. So IMO it’s better to be prepared to

deal with it, because being married is not a joke it a serious responsability that no everyone know or want to do.

See, when you make someone happy, that person in turn makes you happy. We can not go into a marriage

believing that is about you. Unselfish love makes a marriage stronger. The little things you do for the other

person when appreciated makes you heart sing. As well, make you smile like a moron.

IMO = In my opinion
B- Read and study in your book “Hot Topics 1” Chapter 3 Modern Marriage: Until death do us part?

Work on the following exercises:

Read the articles. Look for the answers to your questions.

Pg. 29, exercises: Check the Facts Reading1 A, B

Reading 1

A. Read the statements and write true (T) or false (F). Go back to Reading 1 and look for the answers you

are unsure of.

1. (F) Susan Fine is on the radio.

2. (T) “Nervous in New Jersey” wrote to Susan Fine.

3. (F) “Nervous in New Jersey” is a man.

4. (T) “Nervous in New Jersey” wants to get married.

5. (T) In 2003 most women said that only men should propose.

6. (F) Dr. Linda O’Connor is a divorce lawyer.

7. (T) The Advisor told “Nervous in New Jersey” to propose to her boyfriend.

Pg. 30, exercises: Reading 2, A, B

Reading 2

A. Read the statements and write true (T) or false (F). Go back to Reading 2 and look for the answers you

are unsure of.

1. (T) Most married couples get divorced.

2. (F) There is a mathematical formula that predicts who should get married.

3. (F) A mathematician worked with a sociologist.

4. (T) For their study, the researchers videotaped couples.

5. (F) The couples took a written test.

6. (T) The researchers gave each couple positive and negative points.

7. (F) If the score is bad, the couple has to get divorced.

8. (F) The formula predicts incorrectly 6 percent of the time.

B. Answer the questions.

1. What three things do the researchers look at?

The researchers look for the following:

• If the husband said something bad about his mother-in-law.

• It the wife rolls her eyes in bad mode.

• If the husband said something bad about his mother-in-law or the wife said the same, but a the end they

show mercy and they smile for said that.

2. Find two examples of body language or facial reactions in the reading.

Wife rolls her eyes.

Husband smiles

Pg. 31, exercise: Analyze

Analyze

1. Which one of these women are real? How do you know?

Monica

Miranda

Halle Berry

Halle Berry is a real woman, because I saw her in a lot of movies.

2. Why do you think Korbel Champagne Company did a survey about marriage?

They might want to know how the rules were working in this kind of topic

Pg. 32, exercise: Reading Skills

Reading Skills

Understanding Transition Words and Phrases.

Many transition words and phrases are used in English. Writers use transition words and phrases to connect

ideas. These words and phrases may connect ideas from one sentence to another. They may also connect ideas

within the same sentence.

Some transition words and phrases add ideas together:

He drank the soda and ate all the ice cream.

Some transition words and phrases put actions in time order:

First, take two eggs. Then break them in a bowl .

What do the underlined transition words and phrases from the readings do?

1. In addition, their boyfriends usually like strong women.

This phrases makes emphasize in that today, man don’t have any problem to a woman that like to say that. It

shows that woman who do that usually are educated and self-confident.

2. She also advises women to do two more things.

Here the world also, means that in orden to a woman propose to man it is a good idea to practice it before deal

with it.

3. Then the researchers listen to the conversation.

The word then here means that to put action in time for something. Example, in this case it was about couples of

people.

4. After that, they give the couple positive points and negative points.

I thing it is a phrase used to put actions in time order.

5. In the end, the researchers add up the points.

It was used as a transition phrase.