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    TAI UPINT Old Enough To Be Her Grandfather

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    The document discusses different types of relationships involving significant age gaps, including a 25-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, a 17-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old man marrying an 18-year-old woman. It then presents a letter from a concerned son about his father remarrying a woman much younger than himself. The advice columnist agrees the marriage should be given a chance and that relationships with large age differences are not inherently wrong.

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    TAI UPINT Old Enough To Be Her Grandfather

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    The document discusses different types of relationships involving significant age gaps, including a 25-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, a 17-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old man marrying an 18-year-old woman. It then presents a letter from a concerned son about his father remarrying a woman much younger than himself. The advice columnist agrees the marriage should be given a chance and that relationships with large age differences are not inherently wrong.

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    The document discusses different types of relationships involving significant age gaps, including a 25-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, a 17-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old man marrying an 18-year-old woman. It then presents a letter from a concerned son about his father remarrying a woman much younger than himself. The advice columnist agrees the marriage should be given a chance and that relationships with large age differences are not inherently wrong.

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    TAI UPINT Old Enough To Be Her Grandfather

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    Paul Rose
    The document discusses different types of relationships involving significant age gaps, including a 25-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, a 17-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman, and an 80-year-old man marrying an 18-year-old woman. It then presents a letter from a concerned son about his father remarrying a woman much younger than himself. The advice columnist agrees the marriage should be given a chance and that relationships with large age differences are not inherently wrong.

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    Old enough to be her grandfather!

    Discussion
    Which of these relationships do you think are OK? Discuss in small groups:
    1.A 25-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman.
    2. A 17-year-old man with a 40-year-old woman.
    3. A 40-year-old man with a 17-year-old woman.
    4. An 80-year-old man with an 18-year-old woman.
    Do you know anyone in a relationship with a much older or younger person?
    Can you think of any famous people in a relationship like this?

    Reading
    Read this letter to 'Beth's advice column' in a magazine. Decide what advice you would give before
    reading the reply.

    Now read the reply. Do you agree with the advice?

    Who do you side with - the son or the father?

    True or false?
    Write true (T) or false (F) after each statement below:
    1.The marriage is a fairly new one.
    2. The son has evidence that his father's wife is after his money.
    3. Beth is in favour of giving the marriage a chance.
    4. Beth is generally against marriages in which one person is much older than the other.

    29 Old enough to be her grandfather! Taboos and Issues


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    Language 1 Language 2
    There are many different types of relationship. Look at this sentence from the second letter:
    Which of the following collocations could you Just because she's young, it doesn't mean
    use to describe the relationship you read about
    earlier?
    they have nothing in common.
    Match the two halves of these sentences:
    1.a casual relationship
    2. an extramarital relationship 1.Just because he's rich,
    3. a business relationship 2. Just because she didn't go to university,
    4. a doomed relationship 3. Just because he's got a nice car,
    5. a platonic relationship 4. Just because he's 70,
    6. a romantic relationship 5. Just because you don't like her,
    7. a sexual relationship 6. Just because her last husband died in very
    8. a love-hate relationship suspicious circumstances,
    Match three of the expressions above with the a. it doesn't mean he's rich.
    following meanings: b. it doesn't mean he's too old to get married.
    a. a relationship between a married man and c. it doesn't mean she's after his money.
    someone not his wife d. it doesn't mean she's less intelligent.
    b. a relationship with no future, which is going e. it doesn't mean the same thing will happen to
    nowhere your dad.
    c. a close relationship between two friends, which f. it doesn't mean you have to be unpleasant to
    is not sexual her.

    Discussion
    Discuss the following question in pairs: Would you be concerned i f one of your parents re-married
    somebody twenty years younger? Use the expressions below to help you.
    Well, it would be OK as long as ...
    I'm totally against ...
    I'm all for ...
    I think it all depends on ...
    Now work in pairs or small groups and discuss your answers to the following:

    1. At what age do you consider someone i s old enough to:


    begin going out with a boyfriend /girlfriend?
    have sex?
    get married?
    have children?
    At what age are people too old for the activities above, in your opinion?

    2 . Is i t generally better if people go out with people of a similar age? Why? Why not?

    3. What advantages can there be for a young man to have a relationship with an older woman?
    Any disadvantagesl
    What advantages can there be for a younger woman to see an older man? Any disadvantages?

    4. Look at this personal advertisement from a newspaper:


    Looking for fun? Hi, l'rn 24 years old, 5'10", 115 Ibs. I'm a
    model, very fit, excellent body and very sensual. l'rn looking
    for a man, preferably a MUCH older man who can help me
    feed my expensive tastes. If you know how to take care of
    me, I know how to be very grateful. Box no. 5497.
    What do you think about a woman who places an advertisement like this one?
    What do you think about a man who answers this kind of advertisement?

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