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Today is Thursday, March 22nd,
2007, and this is the ESL Help Desk inviting you to listen to today's podcast.
Today's podcast is following up on last week's, which was a discussion of
the present perfect verb tense. In addition, we are also going to
listen to an audio story from the Easy Writer CD-ROM, to a story written
by Tung Mei Ni, entitled "My Views on Divorce".
We chose this story for today's
podcast because Tung Mei repeatedly uses the present perfect verb tense in
her essay. She also uses many other verb tenses; see if you can identify
which tenses she uses.
"My Views on Divorce
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Ideas for Further Thought or Writing How would Tung Mei have felt
if her parents had not gotten divorced? How do you think this
would affected her own future and future marriage? What kinds of problems is
Tung Mei referring to when she writes that her parents' staying together
would have created even more problems? How would it have harmed the
children? How important is it for a
husband and a wife to have the same or a similar educational level?
Explain. How does living in a new
culture put pressure on a married couple? What can couples who have
moved to a new country do in order to keep their marriage happy and
healthy?
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in China; however, when my father decided to move and bring the family to
America, this all changed. Since they came to this country, their lives
have gone in different directions. My father has changed and my mother
hasn't; she is an old-fashioned woman who only finished fifth grade and
even now speaks no English. They made the difficult decision to seek a
divorce and now they have been divorced for more than five years. If they
had decided to stay together, the marriage wouldn't have worked out. It
may have caused even more problems.
because
their staying together only harms their children. The parents will fight
all the time over little things, such as who is making the coffee, who is
taking the kids to school, and more. They don't realize that their
children would be better off if the parents separated than if they stayed
together. 
