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Y. Read and translate the text. Make up the dialogue using the questions given after the text.
What’s Happening to the Family?
Nobody would argue that relationships in modern families are not the same as they used to be earlier. The family has changed in quality. And the main reason for this is that a woman has changed. She is not satisfied with the role of a housekeeper. She wants to have a profession; she doesn’t want to be dependent on another person. She has her own opinion, own hobby she is interested in.
And you may meet a lot of happy families based exclusively on mutual interests and respect. Among these couples there are childless as well, but it doesn’t make vacuum in the family, because each of them is self-valuable and interesting to the other. As for the question of children – each family should decide it for itself, jointly. Then even the thought of divorce won’t arise.
So whom to marry? Only the one whose way of thinking is close to yours, a man who is your friend, who respects a personality in you. But for this you have to be such.
Questions for the dialogue:
1. How many members do you have in your family?
1. Are you pressured by your family to act in a certain way?
2. Are your parents strict?
3. Do your parents let you stay out late? What time do you have to be at home?
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4. What kind of things do you do together with your family?
5. How many uncles and aunts do you have?
6. Do you often visit your grandparents?
7. What are some of your memories of childhood?
8. Do you look more like your mother or your father?
YI. A questionnaire. Answer the following questions and write an essay about yourself.
• What is your name?
• How old are you?
• Where are you from?
• What is your nationality?
• What is your place of birth?
• What is your occupation?
• Where do you study?
• What is your favourite subject?
• What kind of education did you get?
• Did you get a diploma (certificate)?
• When did you leave school?
• What are you going to be?
• What is your address?
• What is your phone number?
• What are your hobbies?
• What do you enjoy most?
• How do you spend your day-off?
• How do you usually relax?
• What are your interests?
• Who are your friends?
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• What are they?
• What music do you like?
• What books do you read?
YII. What are the questions to the answers?
a)_________________ My name is Nick Klimenko.
b) _________________ I am seventeen.
c) _________________ I live in Kyiv.
d) _________________ I study at the Department of Sociology.
e) _________________ Yes. Our Institute is large. There are about 3500
students in it.
f) _________________ I am going to be a sociologist.
g) _________________ I study at the Humanitarian faculty.
h) _________________ Our lessons start at 8 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m.
i) __________________ After the Institute I do sports.
j) __________________ My favourite sport is basketball.
k) _________________ Yes, I have many friends at the Institute.
l) ___________________ Some of them are going to be economists, others
- sociologists as I am.
YIII. Draw a family tree (it may be you own).
Family Tree.
1. Nick is 18. He has a father and a mother.
1. His father’s name is Jack. His mother’s name is Betty.
2. Nick has one brother. His name is Andrew.
3. Nick’s cousins are Jill and Colin.
4. Colin’s father is Paul. He is Nick’s father’s brother.
5. Fill’s mother is Ann. She is Nick’s mother’s sister.
6. Andrew is older than Nick. He is 28. He is married to Jane.
7. Mary is Andrew’s daughter.
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8. Nick’s niece is Mary.
9. Andrew and Jane are Mary’s parents.
10. Alfred is Colin’s grandfather.
11. Alfred has got two sons and one daughter: Jack, Paul and Ann.
IX. Read, translate and explain your attitude to the following.
The Bible says, “Honour thy father and thy mother”. It is one of the Ten Commandments.
In the family mothers and fathers help their children in many ways, long before the children can understand about it or say, “Thank you”. As children grow older, they do many things for their fathers and mothers. Parents and children help one another. Though parents sometimes make mistakes, the children should understand that their parents are wiser and they know what is best for their children. So sons and daughters must show respect to their fathers and mothers and trust them, and obey them.
But parents should spend more time with their kids. Some adults talk to their children only when they must scold them for something. It is completely wrong. How can they expect teenagers to be open with them if they are not interested in their life? Often, parents do not understand their children because they do not really try to.
Another thing is too much control. If adults do not trust teenagers, do not see them as equals, it is only natural that teenagers behave in an irresponsible and childish way. They do what is expected of them.
