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Conversational Activities

1.Describe your family.

2. You are showing your friend a family album. Make up a dialogue.

3.You have brought an international student who is on an exchange programme at your University to your house for the first time. Make up a conversation between your parents, your friend and you.

4.Describe the Goodwins as if you were one of them.

5.Make up a dialogue describing the average British family.

6.In groups of threes or fours, brainstorm and give a scetch of the average Ukrainian family (type, number of people, marriage age, parents’ education and occupation, income, etc).

7.In groups, fill in the following chart from the Ukrainian perspective.

Nuclear Families

Extended Families

Advantages

Disadvantages

8.Answer the following questions.

  1. What defines a family?

  2. Should parents have a great deal of authority over the children? Why? Why not?

  3. What expectations does society have about a family as a social institution?

  4. What are the main types of families in different cultures? What does it depend on?

  5. What is your opinion of arranged marriages?

  6. What are the main reasons for the changing roles of husbands and wives?

  7. What is the rate of separation and divorce in Ukraine?

  8. Some psychologists are sure that divorce to the family is exactly what suicide to man is. Do you agree? Why?

  9. Does a “generation gap” exist in your family? What are the main differences between the way you and your parents think? What are the main causes of your conflicts?

  10. What is your idea of the “ideal” family?

  11. Can there be an "ideal" family?

  12. What are the roles of the family members and the beliefs that unite a family?

  13. Do external factors such as economic situations, politics, technology, etc. affect the way families live and behave? How?

  14. What are the public, legal, and religious attitudes toward divorce in this country?

9.The sibling relationship becomes for many the only intimate connection that seems to last. Friends and former co-workers may move away, marriages break up, but our brothers and sisters remain our dearest people. Do a sibling survey interviewing your friends and groupmates asking the following questions.

  1. What kind of relationship do you have with your brothers and sisters?

  2. Do siblings feel closer to each other as they get older?

  3. Do relationships with your brothers and sisters change with time? Why? Why not?

  4. Which pair of siblings do you think is usually the closest: a brother and a sister, two sisters, two brothers? Why?

  5. Which person in your family usually takes responsibility for getting family members together?

  6. What factors affect how much contact siblings have?

  7. Do you quarrel and compete with your brothers and sisters? What are the main reasons for this?

  8. Is it important for children to have brothers and sisters? Why? Why not?

  9. When you need help, do you turn to your brothers and sisters?

  10. What is your birth order? Has your role in your family been influenced by your position?

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