• Vocabulary

Task 4. Skim-read the text to find the problems you cannot come across in it.

1. A family constantly changes preserving its essence.

2. Every society has rules about what sorts of people are permitted to marry each other.

3. The family in industrial societies uniquely provides a private haven of emotional support.

4. Too much perfection can't spoil the family.

5. Many alternatives to the traditional family have been suggested.

Task 5. Match column A with column B.

	A	B
1	Intercourse	А закононародження;
2	Heritage	B	взаємна користь;
3	Legitimacy	C	відповідний;
4	Eligible	D	співжиття;
5	Reciprocity	E	скасовувати;
6	Perpetuate	F	зв’язок, стосунки;
7	Abolish	G	відновлювати, відбудовувати;
8	Stigma	H	стереотип, клеймо;
9	Cohabitation	I	увіковічити;
10	Reinstate	J	спадщина.

Task 6. Fill in the correct wordsfrom the previous exercise into the gaps below (not all words are needed).

1. He is one of the most__________bachelors in Europe today.

2. Current policy only serves to______the old class divisions.

3. The government voted against________the death penalty.

4. Unfortunately,there's still a____attached to mental illness.

5. Britain_____slaveryin1807.

Task 7. Fill in the correct word or word combination from the box into the gaps below.

companion shipmate regulations belief reproduction universality legitimacy drastic cohabitation social status

1. The biological needs for sex and infant care do not explain the ___ of the family.

2. According to popular______, the incest taboo is a universal way of preventing the genetic deformities.

3. Children inherit a ____ _____, a particular place in the complex of social relationships.

4. The social process of linking a father to every child is known as ________ .

5. The family, in other words, is the primary means of social ____________ .

6. People in modern societies are subject to impersonal rules and bureaucratic ___

7. The modernization of the world has thus given people more freedom to choose a ____________ .

8. For many men and women ________ offers the benefits of marriage without its obligations.

9. The new government made _______ changes in sexual, marital, and parental relationships.

10. Although the family is losing some of its traditional functions, it remains the primary institution for love and ___________ .

Task 8. Are the following statements about the text true (T) or false (F)?

1.	In advanced industrial societies patriarchal arrangements tend to break down.	T / F
2.	Every society does not intrude on what sorts of people are permitted to marry each other.	T / F
3.	The family functions as an economic unit that provides innumerable services ranging from child care and food production to transportation and secretarial help.	T / F
4.	Single parenthood has nothing to do with the feminization of poverty during the 1970s.	T / F
5.	There is no doubt that the family is changing in profound, even revolutionary ways.	T / F

Task 9. Now look again through a part of the text called A Haven in a Heartless World. Find words in the paragraphs, which mean the same as:

a) remarkably, particularly ___________________

b) insensible

c) fellowship

d) tospring up, emerge

e) brutal, barbarous

f) toglide, crowl

g) dark, severe

h) a husband, a wife

i) to chain `

Task 10. Look through a part of the text called Other Functions of the Family. Rearrange the letters to form a word used in the text.

1	uagulraicrlt		a affected by the other thing and changes if the other thing changes;
2	cuonrmse		b too many to be counted;
3	crdouepr		c the activity of moving people or things from one place to another;
4	nedendetp		в involved in farming or used for farming
5	naimbuernle		e a person or company that grows food or makes goods to be sold;
6	tortioasprntan		f be in dincharge of someone or something;
7	psirlesitionby		g сapability of doing something;
8	gileninswls		h someone who buys and uses goods and services.

Task 11. Look through a part of the text called Forms of the Family. Power and Descent. Choose the best option to complete the sentences.

1. According to the text, American men no longer have a monopoly over money, education, and

1. economic prosperity

2. social prestige

3. culture

2. A number of studies have shown that working wives have more at home than other wives.

1. stress

2. responsibility

3. power

3. The author points out that in day-to-day decision making wives typically exercise far greater than their husbands over children.

1. immunity

2. authority

3. violation

4.The author claims, when husbands and wives disagree, it is usually the man who .

1. wins

2. says sorry

3. cries

5. At least in the middle-class, also have a great deal of power.

1. children

2. pets

3. senior members

Task 12. Skim a part of the text called Alternatives to the Traditional Family. Use the words from the right side to make the expressions with the words from the left side. Then translate them into Ukrainian.

male	inequality
social	relationships
parental drastic	married center
legitimately	Dominance
financial	changes
child-care	support

• GRAMMAR