Lesson 23

1. Warming up activities

1. For me, family is the most important thing in life. This is the circle of people who are always ready to support and help in difficult times. I have a poem dedicated to the family, I will write a couple of lines:

«A family is just a fairy tale

That can please children;

After all, tenderness, and love, and affection

Can melt the ice on the heart.»

Family is feelings, it's comfort, it's common hobbies, it's pleasure, it's sincerity. It's not just mom, dad, brothers and sisters, these are all close people with whom you are related by blood, it's just that some people are distant from us either by distance or by relationships. Family is something worth cherishing all your life.

2. Family plays an important role in everyone's life. This provides a sense of security, comfort and unconditional love. Family members provide support and guidance, helping people develop for the better. Strong family ties help to lead a healthy and fulfilling life, as well as develop a sense of belonging and purposefulness.

3. It seems to me that getting married "officially" or not is a personal choice of everyone. If they want to register their marriage, let them do it, if not, then no one should persuade them, they are adults and decide for themselves what to do and what not.

The responsibilities of all family members should be shared, for example, mom cooks, dad cleans the floor, the child cleans his toys. But this does not mean that they perform only these duties, they can also help each other, so the relationship in the family will be better.

2. Follow up activities

76.

1. I think our professor is the most interesting man I ever met.

2. I can’t agree with you, I got bored to death at his last lecture.

3. I’m disgusted by the young man’s manners.

4. His recent behaviour was shocking.

5. Mother got worried about his progress at school, he looks very depressed.

6. It’s not surprising, he misses a lot of classes saying that he’s tired.

7. Our teacher finds it annoying.

8. It is amazing that they did not expell him.

77.

1. These two photographs look identical.

2. Everybody praised his artistic performance in the comic opera.

3. The events of that tragic historic day showed political and strategic disadvantages of the democratic system.

4. It is not politic to leave just now, our host wants us to taste his favourite classic wine.

5. The dramatic changes of the past two decades were brought about by fantastic advance of new electronic devices for public purposes.

6. Our energetic landlady thinks that being practical means being economical and refuses to feed domestic animals.

7. He is well acquainted with the present-day economic and historical issues.

3. Focus on reading

1. T

2. T

3. F

4. T

5. T

6. F

7. T

8. F

4. Achievement test

1. A

2. B

3. A

4. A

5. B

6. C

7. A

8. C

9. B

10. A

5. Extention activities

1. I believe that parents should treat their children as equals, because there will be no comparison of generations. Perhaps children need to be treated more affectionately, because they are small, they need more attention from their parents. But teenagers can be perceived as adults, they are no longer children, they understand everything and think like adults. Therefore, in order not to disrupt the relationship and balance in the family, you need to take the teenager seriously and in an adult way.

2. In an ideal family, for me, there is always comfort and its own atmosphere of understanding and well-being. This is to meet relatives from work or school, it's to cook together, eat together, walk in the park on weekends, engage in common hobbies, spend time together, communicate, discuss in the evenings what happened to them over the past day, this is a concern. A person should understand that he is not superfluous in his family, that he is like behind a stone wall. This is decision-making all together. The ideal family is what I strive for.