Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere!

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If I did not pay it would have been a curse on my children. My grandfather died a week later, so it was just in time." Many Chinese women complain of problems with their in-laws, but not Liu Guifang - Qu's wife of 18 years: "Although I am an outsider, I have melded into the big family. All the brothers and sisters get along really well. Everyone usually gathers here at the weekend. And I still often go and see my own brothers and sisters."

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Lajos' hobby is cooking and Ica likes watching serials on television. Ica lost her teeth a few years ago, but money and the will to have them repaired are both missing. "I am afraid of the dentist. I have already got used to it, and what's more my people have also got used to me like this," she says. Welcome to Our World 3: Lesson Planner with Classroom Audio CD, Teacher's Resource CDROM, and Teacher DVD Welcome to Our World uses beautiful photography, songs, and games to capture the imaginations of very oung learners, expose them to the world they live in, and introduce them to the English Language. Experience more of the real world with content that motivates learners to use English, including surprising photography, meaningful stories and readings, immersive video and incredible National Geographic Explorers. Attitudes to family and marriage are also changing, in line with western European trends. The number of marriages has now fallen to 43,000 a year - half the number in 1948-1949 - and more marriages are now ended each year than new ones begun. The lives of many have became harder, with workplaces closing down and increasingly exploitative working conditions. The gap between rich and poor is growing and some families are losing the struggle to keep their heads above water. The parks and subways of Budapest are full of the homeless and begging mothers and children, while the upper-middle classes luxuriate in their new-found wealth, resurrecting old traditions like the Opera Ball.

Unlike most other Chinese - particularly in rural areas - the parents say they are more than happy to have a girl. But they are disappointed that their daughter has to grow up alone because the one-child policy forbids them from having any more. Teach English through music, motion, and culture with Welcome to Our World Second Edition, a 3-level series for very young learners of English. Last year, Anita was finally posted to the capital, enabling the family to live together for the first time since Sarvocch was a baby. In the cosy living room of their flat, there are two daybeds and some soft stools that the family sprawl across together to watch their favourite programmes, such as The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Friday nights.

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In this wonderfulbook, young children can learn all about what people in other countries eat, wear and play, and how they speak and celebrate. From breakfasts to birthdays, cakes to clothes, and hiccups to hellos, there are so many ways to say and do things – but everyone shares a love of family, friends, food and fun. This delightful book teaches us that despite different languages, customs and traditions, it really is a small world, after all. Most likely to row: About money, especially if Boniface spends without telling Pauline - as when he helps out his extended family. Beijingers don't worry about whether it is better to have a boy or a girl. It doesn't matter as long as the child has company. In the past, we had many brothers and sisters. But our daughter is lonely," says Liu, 44. "Before, I always wanted to have two children. But now, even if I could I wouldn't try for another child. I am too old and don't have the energy. Compared with my parents I think the burden of having one child is lighter. Raising a family used to be very tough." Gabrielle Pritchard is an author of EFL courses and children’s books. Based in the UK, she has, over the last twenty years, written materials for EFL students at all levels. Shristi loves relaying the trials and tribulations of her school day to her parents. "I think they interact with me more than most of my friends." There are just a couple of things she clashes with her mother over. "She's always like 'study, study, study'. But mostly it's about shopping." One of the highlights of Shristi's life is the music, DJs and dancing that make up the monthly "jam sessions" put on for teenagers of army officers. "I wait desperately for it to come around and start thinking about what to wear a week before."

Teacher Resources / British English

The most enduring image of Indian family life, immortalised in Bollywood and Goodness Gracious Me, is dying. The "joint" family, where three generations live under one roof, is slowly disappearing as the booming economy leads couples to prioritise income and job over family duty. A growing number of middleclass women are entering the workforce (15% now work); the divorce rate, though low (1.1%), is going up, and rural families are increasingly losing relatives to the city.

Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere! Welcome to Our World: A Celebration of Children Everywhere!

Welcome to our World is a wonderful book about the differences and similarities of children around the world. Whilst we may appear very different to each other we are in-fact very similar. We all wear clothes, we all eat food, we all have somewhere to call home, we all talk to others, we all play games, the list goes on.

Teacher Resources / American English / Level 6

Lebanon is beautiful. Its landscape is dominated by the mountains that run parallel to the Mediterranean, separated from it by a narrow coastal strip in which most of the population lives. It is a qualified democracy, governed by a power-sharing arrangement between 18 sects. Excluded from this is the Palestinian refugee community - 10% of the country's population. Dr. Joan Kang Shin is an Associate Professor of Education at George Mason University and the Academic Program Coordinator of the Teaching Culturally & Linguistically Diverse & Exceptional Learners (TC... Their new home was cramped and both rooms served as bedrooms, but they were happy and didn't mind because in Hungary the living and sleeping function of rooms are not strictly separated as they are in Britain. Learn from real classrooms and interviews with teachers from around the world, covering topics relevant to every young learner teacher. The couple had an arranged marriage after Nagendra placed an advert in the Hindustan Times for an "educated" girl. They had a Hindu ceremony in 1988 in Delhi. Nagendra defied his father's wish that he marry a bride from Bihar, his native state in northern India. "We're Brahmins [the highest and priestly caste in Hinduism's caste system] and my father had a lot of land and would have got a lot of dowry from a local family. I obeyed him on everything but this. I don't agree with dowry and wanted to marry a woman who could understand me, teach our children and understand our relationship." Anita's family is from the rung below Nagendra's on the caste ladder and they come from a different state, Orissa, on India's east coast. "My father didn't believe in dowry or caste. He said the only thing that mattered was that the boy should be nice."

Welcome to our World - A celebration of children everywhere! Welcome to our World - A celebration of children everywhere!

Kaj Schwermer is an award-winning author and teacher trainer with over two decades of experience working with young learners. He has run his own chain of private language schools, been the educationa... Family motto: Strive for your career (to the kids); don't fight in front of the kids (to each other); and live a spiritual life. Each song is performed and taught by a video host, as well as sung by very young learners in real classrooms for international exposure, and supports the language and concepts introduced in the Student Books. Ica is currently out of work; Lajos works as a postman. The family still comes together at Christmas, Easter, birthdays and name days. Lajos also often visits his sons, who have their own families, and they come to visit them. The weekends are usually busy either with guests or with visits to other members of the family.

Denied some basic rights, such as the right to own property, and banned from working in 72 occupations, Palestinian refugees such as Amer are nevertheless a central part of Lebanon - in the city of Sidon, they comprise at least half of the population. A nurse in the Indian army, Anita has had to accept transient postings across north India, typical of many government jobs while Nagendra, an assistant sub-inspector in the Delhi police, had to stay put in the capital. He spent 14 years occasionally travelling up to 60 hours by train to spend a day or two with his family. Teach English through music, motion, and culture with Welcome to Our World Second Edition, a 3-level series for very young learners of English.