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Page 38 - Exercise 6

Listening - Family life

Part A - Listen to the results of a survey about family life. Answer each question with men, women, boys or girls .

• Welcome to this week’s program.

• Do men have it easy? We’ll take a look at the roles and responsibilities of men and women in families. First, thanks to all of you who responded to our survey. John?

• Thanks Jennifer. Later on in the program will be taking your phone calls and talking to Dr. Walters, a family psychologist will answer your questions and now for the results of the survey. Jennifer?

• Well, in response to the first question, who is the messiest person in the house? The answer was boys. 92% of you said that your sons or brothers don’t help much around the house. They don’t pick up their things. Don’t hang up their clothes and leave their clothes lying around.

• Interesting. And what about the second question Jennifer?

• That was, who does most of the work in the kitchen? Well, 84%. If you answered women. Many of you also explained that the boys and men usually take out the garbage, the girls and women tend to cook, do the dishes and clean up.

• And what about the groceries Jennifer?

• Well, according to our results. Boys and girls usually put the groceries away.

• That’s surprising. So what else do the women do?

• Well, that’s our next question. Who worries most about expenses? In the majority of homes. It seems that women worry most about household expenses. One young man wrote to us saying, my mother always nags me and my sister. She tells us to get off the phone. To stop spending so long on the computer. To turn off the TV. Well, everything really. I always thought she just like to nag, but maybe she’s really worried about money. I think that’s probably true, don’t you John?

• Yes, very interesting and though I’d like to introduce Dr. Walters.