- •Чебоксары 2011
- •Предисловие
- •Topic: getting acquainted text a. Just good friends?
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. The “name game” winners
- •Text c. Ageism turned her into a liar
- •Conversational practice dialogues
- •Getting acquainted
- •Talking points
- •Topic: family text a. The american family
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. Family life
- •Text c. Nuclear family, extended family
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. A hardworking mother
- •B. A lovely bride
- •C. Mr. Cliff’s family
- •D. An arranged marriage
- •C. A career for robert
- •Talking points
- •Topic: appearance and character
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text a. Beauty
- •Text b. Body size and body parts
- •Text c. Physical description
- •Text d. Personality
- •Text e. Who are these? people describing
- •Do you have a “Type a” or “Type b” personality?
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. Describing people
- •B. Missing person
- •He is very forgetful
- •Steven or Rod
- •Victorian Family
- •The Office Party
- •Talking points
- •Topic: our english lesson text a. Learning foreign languages
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Idioms and sayings about education:
- •Exercises
- •What makes a good language learner?
- •Text b. At school for 17 hours a day
- •Higher education
- •Conversational practice dialogues
- •Talking points
- •Topic: home text a. Our flat
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Our House in the Country
- •Text b. Feng shui
- •A House with a Difference
- •Text d. Flat-sharing – the inside story
- •Additional exercises
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. Looking for a new apartment
- •B. Renting a room
- •E. Discussing new apartment
- •In pairs talk about Circle 1, 2, 3. Ask at least one more question. Get as much information as you can.
- •Topic: plant and animal life text a. Plant life and animal life in the uk
- •Topical vocabulary
- •Exercises
- •Text b. Animal telepathy
- •Text c.
- •Additional exercises
- •Are our zoos cruel to wild animals?
- •Conversational practice dialogues a. А bit of gardening
- •B. A conversation with jack hanna
- •Talking points
- •1. You are in the Zoo. Speak about the animals you and your friend see there and you have at home.
- •Литература
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Text b. Family life
Ex. 1. Read the text.
Most young people eventually get married, buy or rent a house or a flat of their own and start a family. However, a great many changes are taking place in this pattern of behaviour.
In Britain, as in many other Western European countries more and more men and women are living together without being married. In the mid 1990s more than a quarter of new brides had lived with their husbands before marriage, compared with 8 per cent in 1980. People are also getting married later than they used to.
However, marriage is still popular even among those whose first marriage has failed. In fact, in 36 per cent of all marriages one or both partners have already been married and divorced. Britain now has the highest divorce rate in Europe and about 10 per cent of children live with only one parent.
Another trend is toward smaller households. Very few children grow up in large families and more and more adults are living alone (25 per cent in 1997). Many of the people who live alone are elderly; it is unusual to find three generations living in one house as they used to do in the past. It is quite common for close relatives to live in different parts of the country and many people hardly ever meet their uncles, aunts and cousins. One reason for this is that British people move house five years on the average. They do this in order to change jobs or to buy a bigger or better house.
Ex. 2. Comprehension check. Choose the right variant.
1. The text is about…
a) new tendencies in family life in the modern world
b) the divorce rate in Europe
c) reasons for people to get married
d) tendencies in family life of the British
2. Those who failed in their first marriage…
a) never marry again
b) marry again quite often
c) sometimes marry again
d) always marry again
3. Relatives nowadays…
a) do not see each other very often
b) try to see each other as often as possible
c) are closely connected
d) do not know each other
4. The British people often move house nowadays…
a) to get closer to their families
b) because they feel bored
c) to get a better job or a bigger house
d) because it is a custom
5. Nowadays families living together are getting … they used to be.
a) smaller than
b) bigger than
c) more friendly than
d) as big as
Ex. 3. Answer the questions below.
1. What are the new features of family life in the modern world?
2. Can you think of any reason why people get married later than they used to?
3. What can you say about modern divorces?
4. Were you surprised to learn about the divorce rate in Britain?
5. What do you think the divorce rate in our country is?
6. Speak about modern and old households. Do they differ? In what way?
7. What do you think about the life of aged people in the modern world?
8. What can you say about family connections nowadays?
9. Why do British people often move house?
Ex. 4. Write about your family (300 words).