{"id":26688,"date":"2023-09-16T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T09:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=26688"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:19:31","slug":"presidential-children-and-the-white-house-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2023\/09\/presidential-children-and-the-white-house-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Children and the White House Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B2 – Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is common for voters to feel a personal connection to the highest leader of their country. This personal connection is comparable to that of a close family member. This is why when voters choose their candidate, they also take into account the parenting skills of their chosen president-to-be. The public image of the candidate’s children could be as significant as theirs in the voters’ eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s read the article and know more about some notable presidential children and how their image affected their presidential parent’s political image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/hunter-biden-is-the-latest-presidential-child-to-stain-a-white-house-reputation-but-others-have-shined-it-up-212233<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What does “reviled<\/strong>” mean? “As a historian of the American presidency, I see the case of Hunter Biden as a revealing indicator of the ways that presidential children have figured in American public life, whether they were beloved or reviled<\/strong>.<\/em>” Give 2 synonyms and use “reviled<\/strong>” in a sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Define “rough-and-tumble<\/strong>“. “The assumption that young children\u00a0should be free from the political rough-and-tumble<\/strong>\u00a0has recently made them highly effective symbols for presidential image-making.<\/em>” Use this idiom in your own sentence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What is the meaning of the phrasal verb “harken back<\/strong>“? “His approach harkened back<\/strong> to the 19th century, when presidents appointed their adult sons to office while young children rarely appeared in public.\u00a0<\/em>” Use it in a sentence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Who is Hunter Biden and what are his legal troubles?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. How do presidential children affect their parent’s likelihood of winning\/losing in an election?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. In your opinion, is it fair for the immediate family members of politicians to have their private lives on public display? Why or why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. How can this relationship result to nepotism? Is nepotism at this level common in your country?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Talk about a controversial presidential child that you know of.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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