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3.3 Прочтите текст и расположите предложения в порядке следования событий в тексте.

A.Her mother gives her rent money.

B.Kate shouts at her mother and leaves home.

C.She and an old boyfriend come back to collect her things.

D.She comes home for a few days.

E.She goes to stay with Melanie for a while.

F.She is thrown out of the flat.

G.She moves in with a friend on the other side of the city.

H.She moves into a boarding house.

I.She is still living at home six months later.

DIARY OF A WALKOUT

March 10. Kate demands money for getting ears pierced. I refuse. Cries, threatens, bangs on my bedroom door, then: You're so unsupportive, you don't talk to me nicely any more. There's no point in my staying. Slam.

March 14. Appears with former boyfriend to collect belongings. Watching her stuff clothes in bag causes me almost physical pain. March 18. She's moved out of former boyfriend's house, left school. Noone knows where she is.

March 26. Search area where I know she hangs out. Spot her standing in a doorway smoking. Take her for coffee. She tells me she's staying with Melanie. She won't divulge the phone number.

March 30. Volunteers phone number -just don't think you can ring me all the time.

April 7. Melanie's dad says Kate has to move out. Suggest she comes home. Does not work. She disappears again.

April 12. Hear she's living in a boarding house with a friend.

April 14. She makes contact and I meet her for dinner. Says the room in the boarding house needs a good clean. We bleach, detergent and food. April 16. My birthday. A bouquet arrives on my doorstep with a note: No matter what I do, Mum, I love you.

April 18. Rings to say she accepted a lift from a 2am today, was attacked, but managed to get out of the car. Feel scared, helpless.

April 20. Moves out of the boarding house to another "friend" on the other side of the city.

April 23. It's 3am and she's on the phone crying, saying the "friend" is throwing her out. The phone goes dead and I have no idea where she is.

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April 30. Moves into a flat with a friend. Ask for rent money. Agree to pay one month's rent, but no more – she has to get a job.

May 30. Is evicted from her flat. Cautiously suggest she returns home for a day or two and uses phone to find alternative accommodation and job. Grudgingly agrees. I'll be outta here by the end of the week.

Six months Later. She's nicer to live with, has gone back to school. Overhear her talking on the phone discussing a friend who has walked out of home. Silly bitch. Tell her to grow up and move back home.

3.4Найдите соответствия следующих предложений в тексте.

Она появляется с бывшим другом, чтобы забрать свои вещи. Я ищу место, где, мне кажется, она проводит время. Она не скажет мне номер телефона. Не важно, что я делаю, мама, я тебя люблю. Ее выгнали из квартиры. Неохотно соглашается. Комнату в пансионате нужно хорошо помыть. Мы идем в магазин за хлоркой, чистящим средством, едой.

3.5Ответьте на вопросы.

Do you think Kate was right to leave home? Why? Why not? When does Kate make contact with her mother?

What does Kate seem to want from her relationship with her mother? Money? Support? Friendship? Emotional reactions? Advice?

3.6 В статье используются следующие фразовые глаголы. Используйте их в следующих предложениях.

Move out of, hang out, get out, throw out, walk out.

These are the rules of the house and if you don’t like them you can just … now.

At the weekends I get up late then go and … with my friends.

We’re going to … this flat at the end of the month because it’s too expensive for us.

A growing number of teenagers … of home each year, after a fight with their parents.

Her school has threatened to … her … if she skips classes again.

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3.7 Разыграйте беседу между Кейт и ее старым другом после ухода Кейт из дома. Начните по образцу.

Kate: I’ve had a row with my mother and I’ve left.

Boyfriend: What do you mean, you’ve left?

3.8 перед вами список причин, по которым подростки уходят из дома. Какая из них заставила Кейт уйти из дома? По какой из причин вы могли бы уйти из дома?

•Teenager needs to establish own identity.

•Teenager feels under pressure about the future.

•Parent doesn’t listen or doesn’t care.

•Violence at home.

•Parent is strict.

•Parent’s expectations are too high.

•Teenager can’t accept one parent’s new partner.

3.9 Прочтите текст HOMELESSNESS. Догадайтесь о значении следующих слов и выражений.

banishing them from - not allowing them on critics people who don't agree (with the new law) hardheartedness being unkind, cruel

is nearing final approval of has almost agreed to swarm occupy in large numbers (like a swarm of bees) fed up unhappy

inaccessible people can't get into, or use the area dump throw away (rubbish)

wants rid of them wants them to go away task force action group (to help the homeless)

3.10 Прочтите текст со словарем.

HOMELESSNESS

There are approximately 50,000 homeless young people in London. Finding somewhere cheap to leave is not easy in Britain because there is not enough council housing. It is especially difficult for young people without work because they receive very little money from the State. If they are under 18, have left home and are not on a government work

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training scheme, they receive no money from the state. There are hostels for the homeless, but the accommodation is always temporary.

Every night an army of invisible people disappear into the alleys and abandoned buildings of Austin, Texas. They are the city's homeless. But here and in more than 40 cities across the United States, the homeless are facing new laws banishing them from the streets. Critics see the movement as proof of the growing hardheartedness of America. There are about 700,000 homeless people in the United States.

In Austin the city council is nearing final approval of a law to ban camping in any public place. In New Orleans, an anti-camping law has just been proposed, to control the homeless youths who swarm the French Quarter. "The general public is fed up," said New Orleans city council president Peggy Wilson. "People should be able to use public spaces. When other people come in and build cardboard tents and so on, the area becomes inaccessible for everyone else. Particularly in Lafayette Square, there's a group that feeds people on weekends, and they make no effort to clean up; they dump the garbage, and there's the presence of enormous rats."

In Austin, the city's estimated 6,000 homeless can be found near the drinking clubs of Sixth Street near the University of Texas campus and in tents in corners of the city parks.

It is the business community who wants rid of them most. "Austin is known as an easy city. It provides a lot for the homeless," said Jose N Downtown Austin Alliance, which favors the anticamping bill.

The city's new anticamping law is expected to carry fines as high as $500. At the same time, the council’s homeless task force, is proposing a $3,5 million "campus" for the homeless. Task force member Tom Hatch, an architect, said: "It's insane to make not having a home a crime."

3.11 Найдите эквиваленты в тексте.

Армия невидимых людей исчезает на аллеях, доказательство усиливающейся жестокости, городской совет, строить палаточный городок, деловые люди, делать из бездомного преступника, помогать бездомным, общественные места.

3.12 Выразите ту же самую мысль.

•Young people without work receive very little money from the State.

•Accommodation for the homeless is always temporary.

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•In more than 40 cities across the United States, the homeless are facing new laws banishing them from the streets.

•"The general public is fed up,"

•The area becomes inaccessible for everyone else.

•"It's insane to make not having a home a crime."

3.13Ответьте на вопросы.

1"Camping" is usually something you do on holiday. What does it mean in this article?

2Which of these are generally "for" (F) or "against" (A) the homeless:

•critics

•the Austin city council

•the general public

•Peggy Wilson

•the group that feeds people

•the Downtown Austin Alliance

•the homeless task force

•Tom Hatch?

3What is the number of people without home in Britain, the USA?

4How could the state help the homeless?

5Is it true to say that there are almost three-quarters of a million homeless people in the USA?

6If you could not live with your parents, where would you go and what would you do?

3.14 Обсудите в группе.

1.Try to imagine being homeless. How would you feel? What sort of problems would you have? What would you miss most from your present life?

2.In some countries asking for money on the street – “Begging” – is illegal. Do you think it should be allowed? Do you ever give money to beggars?

3.Young people can’t get a job if they are homeless – and they can’t afford a home if they haven’t got a job. How can they get out of this dilemma? Should the government or city council do something to help?

4.In Britain some homeless people make money by selling a magazine called The Big Issue. Would you buy the magazine? Do you think it’s a good idea?

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3.15 Представьте себе, что Вы бродяга. Опишите один из воих обычных дней.

3.16 Прослушайте спор между Стивом и Эмили. Сти собирает деньги в благотворительный фонд помощи детям Африки, Эмили сомневается в правильности его

деятельности.

3.17 Перед прослушиванием прочтите и запомните следующие слова. используйте их в своих предложениях.

Basic food and medicine пища и медикаменты

Drug overdose передозировка наркотиками

to commit suicide покончить жизнь самоубийством

Measles корь Vaccine вакцина

3.18 Соотнесите цифры и факты.

20% young children die every year

12 million die because of measles

50 dollars is the price of vaccine which helps people in Ethiopia not to di 15 cents of American children live in poverty

one can help the Americans to solve health, education and housing million

3.19 Продолжите беседу Стива и Эмили. в своем

диалоге используйте следующие выражения: You are

right of course. But..., I accept that, but …, That may be true, but…

Here is some information

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ВАмерике 20% детей живут в нищете. Каждый год в мире умирает 12 миллионов детей. Противокоревая вакцина стоит всего 15 центов.

ВЭфиопии дети умирают от кори, а в США – от передозировки наркотиками. Очень трудно быть бедным среди богатых. Люди умирают от болезней, которые находятся в грязной воде. Средняя продолжительность жизни в России 60 лет. В нашей стране высокий уровень безработицы.

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to save – to make it possible for someone or something to avoid danger, harm, injury etc: campaigns to save the planet / rainforest / whale. extinct – an extinct animal, plant, or language no longer exists: The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1936.

protection – 1. the process of keeping someone or something safe, or the condition of being kept safe: the protection of intellectual property rights; protection against disease;

2. something that keeps a person or thing safe from harm, injury, damage, or loss.

1.2. Прослушайте и прочтите стихотворение, старайтесь сохранить интонацию диктора. О чем оно?

NATIVE AMERICAN POEM

Only when all the rivers have run dry and all the fish in the sea have died

only when all the rainforests have been burnt down and there is no food for the animals

only when all the blue skies have been filled with smoke and the cities of the world have choked

will the white man understand that it’s too late to save the earth.

1.3 Прочтите новые слова, составьте с ними словосочетания и предложения.

Surroundings – окружение; crowded – переполненный; nuclear

–ядерный; noise – шум; alarming – тревожный; acid rain –

кислотный дождь; to suffer from – страдать от; depletion – истощение; ozone layer – озоновый слой; ultraviolet – ультрафиолетовый; chlorofluorocarbons – хлорфторуглеводы; to release – выбрасывать; refrigerator – холодильник; cancer – рак; to weaken – ослаблять; immune – иммунная; waste – отходы; fertilizer

–удобрение; the Mediterranean Sea – Средиземное море; Aral Sea –

Аральское море; brink – край (обрыва, пропасти); major – большой; impact –влияние; to recycle – перерабатывать; carbon – углерод; nitrogen – азот; oxygen – кислород; to determine – определять; rainfall – количество осадков; power station – атомная станция; accident – катастрофа; disaster – бедствие; to affect – действовать,

влиять; destiny – судьба; urgent – срочный; measure – мера; to avoid

–избежать; numerous – многочисленный; to preserve – сохранять.

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