Complete the text with a word or phrase from the list:
(depended, home, wedding, introduced, fiancé, engaged, running,
close, support, work out, pregnant, give up, intention, split up,
bringing up, plan, benefit, independent, career, nanny)
Granddaughters often have good relations with their grandmothers. Sandy has always been ___________ to her grandmother, Nancy, who’s now in her eighties. Nancy was thrilled when Sandy got _________ to her boyfriend Paul and the two of them talked about the differences in their attitude to marriage.
Nancy was twenty when she got married in 1935. Her ________, David, was an engineer and they had been _________ at a party given by members of David’s family. They were engaged for two years before the actual ___________. Nancy was working in a dress shop when they met and she had to __________ her job when she got married. She stayed at __________ in the house she and David rented. She had no money of her own and so she ___________ on her husband for necessities. Soon she was ___________, and her first child, Sandy’s mother, was born in 1937. Nancy had her second child a year later. Her life revolved around __________ the house and __________ their two children. David was busy with his job and worked long hours to ___________ the family.
Sandy doesn’t see her married life being like this. She’s got a good job and has no __________ of giving it up. She’s told her grandmother that her ___________ is as important to her as being Paul’s wife. She is twenty-seven now, and she and Paul don’t _________ to have any children until she is in her thirties. Even then she intends to continue working. She will be able to pay for a _________ to look after the children. She thinks that her children will ____________ from having a mother who has her own interests and career, and who is financially ___________. Looking on the dark side, if things don’t ___________ in the marriage, both she and Paul agree that it’s better to ___________ than to stay together unhappily for the sake of the children.
Nancy says, ‘It was all so different in my day.’
(depended, home, wedding, introduced, fiancé, engaged, running,
close, support, work out, pregnant, give up, intention, split up,
bringing up, plan, benefit, independent, career, nanny)
Granddaughters often have good relations with their grandmothers. Sandy has always been ___________ to her grandmother, Nancy, who’s now in her eighties. Nancy was thrilled when Sandy got _________ to her boyfriend Paul and the two of them talked about the differences in their attitude to marriage.
Nancy was twenty when she got married in 1935. Her ________, David, was an engineer and they had been _________ at a party given by members of David’s family. They were engaged for two years before the actual ___________. Nancy was working in a dress shop when they met and she had to __________ her job when she got married. She stayed at __________ in the house she and David rented. She had no money of her own and so she ___________ on her husband for necessities. Soon she was ___________, and her first child, Sandy’s mother, was born in 1937. Nancy had her second child a year later. Her life revolved around __________ the house and __________ their two children. David was busy with his job and worked long hours to ___________ the family.
Sandy doesn’t see her married life being like this. She’s got a good job and has no __________ of giving it up. She’s told her grandmother that her ___________ is as important to her as being Paul’s wife. She is twenty-seven now, and she and Paul don’t _________ to have any children until she is in her thirties. Even then she intends to continue working. She will be able to pay for a _________ to look after the children. She thinks that her children will ____________ from having a mother who has her own interests and career, and who is financially ___________. Looking on the dark side, if things don’t ___________ in the marriage, both she and Paul agree that it’s better to ___________ than to stay together unhappily for the sake of the children.
Nancy says, ‘It was all so different in my day.’
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close, engaged, fiancé, introduced, wedding, give up, home, depended, pregnant, running, bringing up, support, intention, career, plan, nanny, benefit, independent, work out, split up,
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