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Look at the picture. You can see my brother and me. Look at my head and hair. My hair is long. It is black. This is my face. My face is round. I have rosy checks. My eyes are blue. My ears are small. I have healthy teeth in my mouth. My hand is on the table, and legs are under the table. You can see my legs, but can’t see my feet.
This is my brother Pete. His hair is short and dark. His face is not round. His eyes are brown and his nose is short. He likes sport. His arms and legs are strong. In the picture he has a ball in his hand.
Proverd: A little body has often a great soul. (Сравни:Мал золотник да дорог.)
UNIT 3
Тема3:МEЖЛИЧНОСТНЫЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ.
ПЛАН МОНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО ВЫСКАЗЫВАНИЯ.
EX.1.WORDS
· Parents- родители
· Privacy- личная жизнь
· To respect feelings-уважать чувства
· To show point of view- показывать точку зрения
· To praise- хвалить
· Opinion- точка зрения
· privacy ['praivqsi] – личная, частная жизнь
· toinvade [in'veid] – вмешиваться (в чью-либо личную жизнь)
· topraise [preiz] – хвалить
· totakeoutbadmoodson – вымещать свое плохое настроение на ком-либо
· tobribe [braib] – давать взятку, подкупать
· softy – слабый, бесхарактерный
· tofeelleftout – чувствовать себя никому не нужным, изолированным
· never, but never – никогда-никогда
· to give the silent treatment ['tri:tmqnt] – неразговаривать.
EX.2 READ AND TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING TEXT
to play truant – прогуливать(уроки)
to bunk off – разг. прогуливать
absenteeism –прогул
to get out of control – выйтииз-подконтроля
evidence – зд. факты
failure – зд. неуспеваемость
tocommitcrime – совершить преступление
toswipe – вставлять (карточку)
attendance – посещаемость
gap – перерыв
to resort to – прибегать (к)
toturnup – являться, приходить
jail – тюрьма
tobefoundguilty – быть признанным виновным
to bring to senses – привестивчувство
tobebullied – подвергаться травле
toputpressure – оказывать давление, быть слишком строгим
WHY AREN’T YOU AT SCHOOL, SONNY?
This is a question that many schoolchildren may hear at some point in their school careers, when they are “playing truant”, “bunking off” or absent without permission. The government thinks that absenteeism is getting out of control, but what can they do to make sure children go to school? Here are some of the reasons they are worried.
One million children a year bunk off school (go absent without reason). In primary schools (5-11) the average time missed per absent pupil is over five days in the year. For secondary schools (11-16) it is 10 days.
Why is it such a problem? The evidence shows that truancy is linked to crime and failure at school. When children are out of school they might be committing crime and they certainly aren’t learning.
What is the answer then? Some people think it is electronic registration: this is a chip in a card that the children have to swipe at the beginning of the school day. When the children put the card in a machine the headmaster can see immediately who is in the school and who is absent.
The best way of improving attendance is to make school, and the gaps between the lessons more interesting. Some schools which have had attendance problems in the past have started lunchtime radio stations, sport, music and a breakfast club with morning TV and aerobics.
Other schools have resorted to more extreme methods when pupils don’t turn up. In 2003 about 9,000 children were expelled from schools in England, a big rise in figures. Many children were excluded for violence and criminal behaviour. Of course, throwing children out of school solves one problem but immediately creates many more. Some teachers want corporal punishment (beating children with sticks) brought back into classrooms, but the government didn’t agree.
One parent knows very well the cost of truancy, not only to her children’s education, but to her own freedom too. A mother of five, Patricia Amos, was the first person in Britain to be sent to jail for failing to send her children to school. She was sent to prison for 60 days after being found guilty in Oxford. She served 28 days in a very dangerous and violent women’s prison in London. Mrs. Amos said, “The whole horrible thing worked. It has brought me to my senses”.
RUNAWAYS
More than a million American teenagers run away from home every year. Their parents are often puzzled and hurt. Why do they do it?
There is usually a lack of understanding on both sides – parents and children – problems in communication.
More than half of these runaways are girls. Their average age is fifteen. For one reason or another, they refuse to stay at home. Of course, the great majority of young people never run away from home. Nevertheless, the problem is a serious one. There is no “typical” runaway, though. Many come from homes broken by divorce or homes where there is an alcoholic parent. Some run away from parents who beat them. But there are also many runaways who come from seemingly healthy homes where no such problems exist.
Steve, aged 15, ran away when he was 13. His father drank, and everyone in the family suffered when he got drunk. One night his father grabbed a gun and with his finger on the trigger, threatened to kill everyone in the family. Steve ran away – and stayed away. His chief concern was getting enough food and a safe, dry place to sleep.
“It’s frightening to be homeless because you don’t know about tomorrow,” Steve says. “Everything you have is what is on your back. You wonder where you’re going to eat or live. You don’t know if you’ll be all right”.
Sharon’s parents are divorced, but she says she had no real problems at home. She lived in a small town in Vermont. One evening she was watching TV when a friend rang up. “We are going to New York. Want to come along?” Sharon – 14 years old – hesitated, then shrugged her shoulders and agreed. When the police finally traced her, she had become a drug addict.
Unfortunately, these young people often run into trouble. Few runaways have any idea of how to get along in the lonely and often dangerous world they find after leaving home.
Most take off with only a few dollars in their pockets. When this is spent they find it is not easy to make money if you are only fifteen or sixteen years old. It’s useless for them to look for a proper job, because legally they are too young to get a job. The police say that most runaways return home within a few days. Often a phone call home is enough to patch things up. However, the longer a runaway is away, the more likely he or she is to get into trouble. One set of problems is often replaced by another. Runaways often think that they will find friendly people willing to help them out. But the sad fact is that cities are full of people on the lookout for runaways, who only want to take advantage of them.
On the street, there are four main means of survival: begging, stealing, prostitution and drug dealing. It’s like a quicksand: the deeper in you go, the deeper down you sink. Sometimes, inevitably, it leads to suicide.
There are a lot of charity organisations which try to protect street children. But unfortunately, the number of teen runaways is rising and the kids are getting younger.
Street children
There are about 100 million people around the world who call the streets their home. And their numbers are rising by the hundreds of thousands each year. In Africa, they are orphans of civil war or victims of famine; in Latin America and Asia, they are victims of poverty. In the capitals of the Western world, they are runaways.
Street children have to look after themselves, living off rubbish, trying to earn money by odd jobs.
The two most difficult cities in the world right now are Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Bangkok, Thailand. Many of the street children are beaten, raped and sold for sex. They cannot turn to the police for help because the police often do the same things to them. In some Latin American countries, street children are rounded up and imprisoned or killed, just to tidy up the streets for an important foreign visitor.
UNIT 4
