Now listen
again while you
check the audio transcription.
Then check
the answers
below.
SPEAKER 1:
Speaking from my own personal situation I love the fact that I have a brother,
um, it provided, he provided me with a lot of fun when, when we were growing up
and um, and I'm now having, having two kids myself I am very pleased that they,
they've got each other to look after. And er I think as you go through life and
your own parents get older, um and you know, you will one day have to look after
them, I think doing that with a, with a sibling would be a lot easier.
SPEAKER 2: I'm an only child, and someone said to me, 'Oh that must be so much better to
be an only child because you get all your parents' attention and you don't have
to share it with your brothers and sisters,' and to an extent I kind of agree,
because it is wonderful to have all that attention from your parents. But, you
can end up becoming, sort of spoilt and used to having this attention, so when
you have to go to school or you have to interact with other people, if you don't
get the attention that you've been used to, you can react in a really spoilt way
without, sort of, meaning to.
SPEAKER 3: I've got two children and although they fight all the time and they, you know,
all this sort of thing, I think, I often when they are fighting try and look at
the positives of it and think, well, I suppose it's a good thing that they are
sort of, you know, learning to do all those things within a safe family
environment, which I suppose if you are I mean an only child perhaps then it has
to be at school or, you know, it's like practising.
SPEAKER 4: I'd hate to have been an only child, I mean I had three brothers and sisters,
and I think only, the girl next door was an only child and she was under so much
pressure from her parents to succeed and all their hopes were focused on this
one girl. I thought, I wouldn't want all that pressure on me.
QUESTION
1:
Do
they
mention
more
advantages
or
disadvantages
of
having
other
siblings?
QUESTIONS
2-5:
Now
listen
again.
Which
speaker
mentions
these
advantages
of
having
brothers
and
sisters?
2.
Learning to interact with other children.
3.
Not being spoilt.
4.
Not being the sole centre of your parents' expectations.
5.
Being able to share the responsibility of caring for elderly parents.
