新编英语教程第二册unit11word文档(16)

IV Reading Part 7

Group work:

How do your parents treat your grandparents? How will you treat your parents when they grow old? Do you want your child to treat you in the same way?

What is your feeling after looking those photoes ？

Answer the following comprehension questions:

1) In what physical condition is the writer’s grandmother? 2) Why can the writer’s family hardly put up with her? 3) Is she happy? Why or why not? 4) Are retirement homes all bad?

5) What did the writer’s mother decide to do when Grandma could not live on her own?

6) How are elderly people treated in many cultures? 7) Why are old people unhappy in a nursing home?

8) What is the writer’s opinion concerning the treatment of aging parents ?

9) What is your opinion concerning the old people in general?