1. REVIEW the vocabulary.
2. LISTEN to the audio.
3. ANSWER the questions.
4. CHECK your answers (Show Answers)

• grilling [n] - many many questions
• job prospects [n] - possible job opportunities
• parental [adj] - from parents
• interrogation [n] - many many questions
• nagging parents [adj+n] - parents who bother their children a lot
• keeping up with the Jones' [id] - doing as well as your neighbor
• testing [adj] - difficult
• partner [n] - boyfriend / girlfriend
• inflict [v] - cause [harm or pain]
• gone viral [id] - become very popular on the Internet
• close to the bone [id] - painfully true
• laden with [adj] - full of / carrying
• follow the herd [id] - do the same as everyone else
• hear hear [id] - I agree

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [id] - idiom

1. Which year is it this year?
   the year of the dragon
   the year of the rooster
   the year of the mouse
   
   
2. What is the song about?
   a soccer game
   taking difficult tests
   the horror of parental interrogation
   
   
3. Who is the song written for?
   people aged 15 to 25
   people aged 25 to 35
   people aged 35 to 45
   
   
4. What is one thing that the song tells people to do?
   go home and see their parents
   study hard for their university exams
   lose weight for a blind date
   
   
5. Where is the reporter?
   Beijing
   Shanghai
   London
   
   
6. Why is this time of year the scariest for these people?
   It is very cold.
   It is the only time of the year spent with parents.
   People are climbing tall trees.
   
   
7. Where does the man often hide?
   in the bathroom
   in a tall tree
   far away from home
   
   
8. What does the female person complain about?
   questions about having babies
   buying expensive gifts
   moving to a new city
   
   
9. What does the male person complain about?
   being set up on blind dates
   receiving too many gifts
   getting old
   
   
10. Why has the song gone viral?
    The choir sings well.
    It encourages people to take a break.
    It encourages people to live their own life.
    
    
11. When can you hear a review of the week's main news stories on BBC?
    In the morning
    Saturdays and Sundays
    After the New Year
    

1. What types of pressure do you face from your family? From friends or co-workers? From society?
2. Do you think children have any responsbility to live their lives as their parents wish?
3. How should children deal with family pressure to live in a way they don't want to?

• The original podcast from BBC World Report [HERE]
• News report and song on Youtube (Chinese) [HERE]