F2F Class Notes 29th August (Celeste) [1]
Homework for next class:
- At home, review this article, find any new vocabulary you don’t understand or know. Prepare to talk about these in your next class.
- Prepare to tell a summary about this article in class.
Study shows there are two divorce seasons
Level 4
Couples should think more about their marriage just before March and August each year. Sociologists found the number of divorces increased sharply in these two months. Researchers looked at data for divorces filed in the USA between 2001 and 2015. They found that divorce rates peaked after the summer holidays and after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Researchers said this could be because of money problems caused by the holidays.
Researcher Julie Brines suggested that couples felt down when the holidays were over. She said: “People tend to face the holidays with rising expectations.” She added: “[Holidays] represent periods in the year when there’s the…opportunity for a new beginning, a new start, something different.” Couples spend more time together during holidays. This may actually make tensions between them worse rather than bring them closer together.
Level 6
Couples might want to put a little extra effort into their marriage just before March and August every year. Sociologists have identified annual spikes in the number of divorces filed in these two months. Researchers from the University of Washington analysed data for divorces filed in the U.S. state of Washington between 2001 and 2015. There were almost 25,000 divorces filed in the state in 2014 alone. The scientists found that over the 14-year period of the study, divorce rates peaked in August, after the summer holidays, and in March, after the Christmas and New Year holidays. Some researchers said the divorces could be due to financial problems caused by the winter and summer holidays.
Researcher Julie Brines suggested that the anti-climax felt after the build-up to holidays, and the holidays themselves, may leave couples feeling stressed and deflated. She said: “People tend to face the holidays with rising expectations, despite what disappointments they might have had in years past.” She added: “[Holidays] represent periods in the year when there’s the anticipation or the opportunity for a new beginning, a new start, something different, a transition into a new period of life. It’s like an optimism cycle.” Couples generally spend more time in closer proximity to each other during holidays, which may actually exacerbate tensions rather than rekindle romance.
feel down / feeling down / felt down / will feel down v. – to be sad
Iren’s original summary
That mean couples will feel sad because they will rise their expectations during the holiday. They will spend too much time than before, that’s make their relationship more tensions than before. They will disappoint their relationship after holiday.
TBC
Free talk:
I finished the moving
I finished moving
I finished moving my boxes/things/furniture
all of my family did the unpacking, except her
you can didn’t unpacking his things
you can just unpack your things, not his things
Group Email
Hi Cindy,
Cindy,
Cindy – Do you have any suggestions on how we can get the position number immediately?
Hi Tom,
Tom,
Tom – For Sun’s on-boarding date, I guess he informed the HR op’s colleagues. Thank you for your information about delaying his on-boarding date.
Thank you – Iren
Regards – Iren
board / bored – same sound
( – ) dash
( _ ) underscore
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