Premarital Agreements Unit 9. Stage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 2: Reading-Centred Activities Stage 3: Vocabulary Exercises Stage 4: Translating and.

Premarital Agreements Premarital Agreements

Unit 9Unit 9

Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities Stage 1: Warming-up ActivitiesStage 1: Warming-up Activities

Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities Stage 2: Stage 2: Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

Stage 3: Vocabulary ExercisesStage 3: Vocabulary Exercises Stage 3: Vocabulary ExercisesStage 3: Vocabulary Exercises

Stage 4: Translating and Stage 4: Translating and WritingWritingStage 4: Translating and Stage 4: Translating and WritingWriting

Warming-up ActivitiesWarming-up Activities

Background informationBackground information

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Comparing the following words Comparing the following words

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Background informationBackground informationBackground informationBackground information

premarital agreements

Premarital agreements or prenuptial agreements are binding legal contracts between two people who intend to marry each other.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Born on July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy w

as first lady of the United States during the administration (1961-1963) of her first husband, John F. Kennedy. She had been a newspaper reporter and photographer before their marriage in 1953. As first lady, she was a patron of the arts and an international fashion-trendsetter. Under her supervision the White House was restored and redecorated and declared a national museum. She was riding beside President Kenney when he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov 22, 1963. In 1968 she married the Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis. After her second husband’s death, in 1975, she worked as an editor in book publishing.

Aristotle Onassis Born on January 20, 1906, Aristotle Onassis was a Greek ship

ping millionaire who accumulated a fortune of more than $500 million. Born of Greek parents in Turkey, he went to Buenos Aires in 1923 and became a telephone operator there. Soon Onassis established a tobacco import business, and by 1930s he bought unused freighters at low prices and by the end of World War II had amassed great wealth in shipping. After the war he increased his shipping fleet by purchasing surplus wartime freighters. He was also one of the pioneers in the construction of oil supertankers. Onassis used his profits to acquire hotels and banks throughout the world, as well as Olympic Airways. Onassis, who was divorced in 1960, had a well-publicized friendship with the soprano Maria Callas. In 1968 he married Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

the American Academy of Marriage Lawyers

Its official name is the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Enriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabularyEnriching your vocabulary

Read the sentences carefully and guess the meaning of the italicized term in each sentence according to the context and your own experiences.

• He is faced with the fact of an irremediable marital breakdown.

• At that time, abortion, divorce, premarital sex, and drug trafficking were listed as serious sins.

• There is growing concern about the increase in the number of prenuptial agreements.

• nuptial promises

• the nuptial day

婚姻

婚前的

婚前的

结婚的

• Her new book is a collection of short stories.

• Our library has a large collection of books.

• There are three collections a day from the post box on the corner.

• Are you able to verify your theory?

• There is a clause in the contract which says the company can fire people for economic reasons.

• A clause can be introduced with "that " or "which".

短篇小说集

藏书

收取 证明

条款

从句

• We feel bound together by our past experiences.

• The prisoner was bound hand and foot.

• The contract binds you to completion of the work within two years.

• The idea rapidly gained acceptance in political circles.

• Division within the party will limit its chances at the election.

• She works in the company's sales division.

连接 绑住

约束

认可

意见分歧

部门

• The news of his death was printed in headlines across all the newspapers.

• I intend to contest the judge's decision in another court.

• She stands a good chance since only two people are contesting the seat.

• She won a gold medal in an international contest.

• Candidates must write their names on the top page of the exam paper.

标题位置

提出质疑

争夺

比赛

参加考试者

• He was stung into making an angry reply.

• He felt a sting on his elbow as the spider jumped away.

• Exposure to the cold wind left my lips feeling dry.

• That building is where the chapter meet on Thursdays.

• She held her hand above her eyes to shield them from the sun.

• The soldier's shield saved him from being killed by his enemy.

被激怒 刺痛

暴露

分会

遮挡

盾牌

• They came back to England in 1991 to retire.

• I retired to my study upstairs.

• There is a law against dropping litter but it is rarely enforced.

• They tried to enforce agreement with their plans.

• She works for a firm of public relations consultants.

• The sword snapped.

退休 回到

执行

迫使

咨询公司

剑

• We have had to refuse the invitation to the wedding.

• Sad thoughts are an invitation to depression.

• Signature of this document means that you agree with us.

• The lawyer cited a previous case to support his argument.

• She was cited by the government for doing an outstanding piece of work.

邀请

引诱，诱惑

签名

援引

嘉奖

• The police asked some awkward questions about where the money had come from.

• Janet fixed copies and edited books for a variety of publishers.

• All references to racial problems were deleted from the history books.

• She forged a new career for herself as a singer.

• They are forging all kinds of documents to a high standard.

编辑

删掉

开创

伪造

令人发窘的

• They've been trying to settle the dispute over working conditions for the last three days.

• Nobody disputed that David was clever.

• Do you have to show your passport at the check-in desk?

• The national birth rate has remained static for the last few years.

• Your remark didn't have any bearing on what happened.

争端 不认为

护照

稳定

关系

• She had a proud, distinguished bearing.

• They lost their bearings in the dark.

• I can see no justification for dividing the company into smaller units.

• We piled all the newspapers into a heap.

• We have heaps of time before the train leaves.

• They heaped the food onto our plates.

姿态 方向

理由

堆

许多 ，大量 堆

• She shed a few tears at her daughter's wedding.

• I'd like to shed a few pounds before the summer.

• These trees shed their leaves in fall.

• The farmer built a shed for his tractor next to the barn.

• I keep my socks in the bottom drawer.

流 出

减轻

落

棚

抽屉

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Questions for thought and Questions for thought and discussiondiscussion

Listen to a short passage Listen to a short passage carefully and then discuss carefully and then discuss the questions on page 242 in the questions on page 242 in groups.groups.

Homework Homework

Learn the new words and expressions of the text by heart.

Go over the text and try to get the main idea of the text.

Reading-Centred ActivitiesReading-Centred Activities

1. Global Reading Task Discuss the questions on page 242 Discuss the questions on page 242

in groups.in groups. Text structure analysis. Types of Reading Comprehension

Questions

• The essay focuses on one social phenomenon:________________________________. The author uses many different writing techniques such as general-specific details and general-examples to tell us what _________ are, who want _________, the points to be taken care of before signing ____________ and finally a general evaluation of __________.

premarital agreementsor prenups

prenups prenups

prenupsprenups

• How many can the whole passage be divided into?

• The first part:

• The second part:

• The third part:

• The fourth part:

4 parts

From Paragraph 1 to 4

From Paragraph 5 to 8

from Paragraph 9 to 14

Paragraph 15 and 16

• Paragraph 1 is  an introduction of prenups: A humorous beginning — crazy clauses of______________________, or a joke about what __________are about.

• Paragraph 2 is the real premarital agreement: The author corrects himself by saying that most of the prenups are about how _______________will be divided up if a couple divorces.

premarital agreements

prenups

financial assets

• Then Paragraph 3 deals with the general definition of prenups: what are prenups and who sign them?

• Premarital agreements are designed to ___________________________________when a couple put an end to their marriage.

• And prenups are negotiated by lawyers for________________________, and signed before______________________.

address the division of financial assets

the prospective spousesa marriage ceremony

• Paragraph 4 is just one example of prenups: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis won _______________ through her prenups with her second husband Aristotle Onassis.

• The second part is about who need to have prenups. The author goes into detail to talk about __________________who need to have prenups before a marriage.

• Paragraph 5 : Prenups are for those who will be involved in __________________________ in a divorce and those who want to ________. 

$26 million

4 types of people

great economic consequencesremarry

• Paragraph 6: Prenups are for those who have accumulated___________________, have already been stung once, and want to _____________________ to future problems.

• Paragraph 7: Prenups are for those who want to _______________to be passed on to______________________________.

• Paragraph 8: Prenups are for those who has, or is in line for, ______________________ or ________________, especially if the future partner has_____________________.

considerable wealth

reduce their exposure

shield assetschildren and grandchildren

great inherited wealtha family business

little or nothing at all

• The third part deals with what points should be taken care of when one goes into a premarital agreement. 

• Paragraph 9:

1. Proper _____________are necessary.2. A lawyer is required to write the ______________.3. Do not use the same lawyer as your _________________does.  

guidelines

document

future spouse

• Paragraph 10:

Do not sign a prenuptial agreement ___________________.

• Paragraph 11:

Two examples of not_________________.

• Paragraph 12:

Watch out that a dispute of ____________ prenups could happen if a couple decides to divorce while ________________with different passports.

under pressure

taking the advice

carrying out

living abroad

• Paragraph 13:

An example of Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s __________. 

• Paragraph 14:

An understanding of the nature of prenups:

prenups are_____________________.

divorce

business agreements

• The fourth part is about the general evaluations of prenups, one negative and the other positive.

• Paragraph 15:

Prenups sometimes may help save a couple from____________________.

• Paragraph 16:

Prenups sometimes prove to be of no use to_________________________.

a terrible marriage

some happy marriages

Reading-Centred Reading-Centred ActivitiesActivities

2. Detailed Reading Task • Language points

• Simulated writing (exercises 8 and 9 )