Reading

1. Read the text.

In Work and out of Work.

The majority of young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try to spend less and save more. They want to be able to get homes of their own one day.

As children move to independence, it is important to make sure that they understand what decent values are. To prevent children from becoming spoilt and greedy parents should not indulge them too much. To make sure that they grow up well-mannered they should be taught to be polite from an early age. Children should be scolded for bad behaviour, which will be an effective way of helping them to distinguish right from wrong. Parents need to reward their children when they do things well to give them a sense of pride. But at the same time parents must be careful not to overdo it or they may become conceited. Parents should try to make their children tolerant and respectful of other people’s beliefs. Parents should try to place great importance on setting a good example to their children, because children’s behaviour is often an imitation of that of their parents. To bring up children to be normal, well-adjusted human beings? Requires great wisdom and perhaps a bit of luck.

Vocabulary

decent values –настоящие ценности

spoilt – испорченный

greedy –жадный

to indulge – давать себе волю, позволять себе

to scold – ругать

conceited – самонадеянный, тщеславный

well-adjusted – легко-приспосабливающийся

wisdom – мудрость

2. Answer the questions to the text.

1. Do you do more or less what your parents did?

2. How will you bring up your children?

3. Do your parents understand you? What will you do to make sure that your children understand what decent values are?

4. Is it necessary to scold children for bad behaviour? Why?

3. Please, point out modal verbs in the text.

4. Give a short summary of the text in English.

Quicktest

Variant I

Write down the sentences in Past Simple and Future Simple.

1.We can help you.

2.I must wait for him.

3.I can do this work myself.

4.He must be at the Institute at 9 o’clock.

5.They can read English books.

Variant II

Write down the sentences in Past Simple and Future Simple.

1.She can translate this article into Russian.

2.I must do it at once.

3.I can buy a dictionary for you.

4.You must learn the story by heart.

5.He can go to the library with you.

Proverbs

Match the Russian and English equivalents of the proverbs. Comment upon the proverbs.

1. What can’t be cured must be endured.

2. You can’t eat your cake and have it.

3. To put the cart before the horse.

4. What’s done cannot be undone.

5. If you want knowledge, you must toil.

6. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

1. Хочешь знать – трудись.

2. Делать шиворот-навыворот.

3. Пытаться сделать невозможное.

4. Что прошло, уж того не воротишь.

5. Не откладывай на завтра, то что можешь сделать сегодня.

6. Нужно мириться с тем, что от тебя не зависит.