4. Are these statements true or false? Use the phrases in the list:

True	False
I fully agree with you!	I disagree with you!
I’m of the same opinion.	I differ from you.
That’s all right!	Far from it.
That’s it! Just it! Exactly so!	Just the reverse.
I’m all for it!	Just the other way round!
Undoubtedly.	Nothing of the kind.
Beyond all doubts.	I object to it.
Looks like that.	It makes no sense.
I think so. I expect so.	By no means.

1) There are many different views on family life.

2) The family unit in Britain is in crisis and the traditional family life is in the past.

3) A “typical” British family used to consist of a mother, a father and three children.

4) There have been no changes in British family life recently.

5) Marriage and the family are not so popular as they once were.

Members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – don’t keep in touch with each other.

7) Each generation is keen to become independent of parents in establishing its own family unit.

8) Relationships within the British family are different now.

9) More than half of all old people are looked after at home.

10) Many others live in Old People’s Homes, which are private.

11) The English are a nation of stay-at-homes.

12) Most American families consist of a mother, a father and two children.

13) It is usual for members of the family other than the husband, wife and children to live together.

14) The nuclear family is economically dependent of the rest of the family.

15) In the American family the husband and wife usually share important decision making, the children do not participate in it.

16) Foreign observers are frequently amazed by the permissiveness of American parents.

17) Americans believe strongly that parents should decide the course of their children’s life.

18) Young people are expected to break from their families by the time they have reached thirty.

19) The job-retirement age in the USA is 60.

20) Elderly couples feel useless and lonely with neither an occupation nor a close family group.

21) An “ideal” family is one that consists of a husband, a wife, and their dependent children.

5. Supply the missing prepositions and adverbs where necessary:

1. There are many different views ... family life.

2. A “typical” British family used to consist ... a mother, a father and two children, but ... recent years there have been many changes ... family life.

3. One marriage ... three now ends ... divorce.

4. The majority ... divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility ... a second family.

5. ... general, each generation is keen to become independent ... parents ... establishing its own family unit.

6. The father is more involved ... bringing up children, often because the mother goes ... ... work.

7. Who looks ... the older generation?

8. The government gives financial help ... the form ... a pension but ... the future it will be more difficult ... the nation economy to support the increasing number ... elderly.

9. It is unusual ... members ... the family other than the husband, wife and children to live together.

10. Foreign observers are frequently amazed ... the permissiveness ... American parents.

11.... adulthood, Americans want and expect to choose where they will live, where they will work, and ... whom they will socialize and marry.

12. Children are expected to make choices – appropriate ... their age and maturity level – ... many areas ... their lives.

13. A more accurate conception ... the family must take account ... the many family forms that have existed or still exist both … America and … other countries.

14. The family is a relatively permanent group … people related … ancestry, marriage, or adoption, who live together, form an economic unit, and take care … the young.