- •Life in the 90s
- •Too Many or Too Few?
- •Britain Today
- •A View of the City
- •Theme one Family Life
- •The Odd Couple
- •How Battered Wives Can Learn to Leave
- •One Beating Every 15 Seconds
- •Why She Didn't Leave
- •The Double Life of Batterers
- •Making the Break
- •After the Shame: a New Life
- •Can Abusive Husbands Be Cured
- •1. Find out in the story the proof of the following statements:
- •2. Now think about and discuss the following questions and statements:
- •Civil Cases
- •Here Come the dinKs
- •Independently from their parents is changing.
- •Show Me the Way to Go Home
- •Vocabulary
- •Questions and activities comprehension questions
- •Discussion questions
- •Group activities
- •Theme two a Place to Live and Work
- •Little Has Changed on the Streets of London
- •Unemployment
- •Migration
- •Theme three work and study Equal at Work
- •Unit two Communication
- •The Press in Britain
- •Language in the News
- •Theme one Getting the Message Across Publicising the Circus
- •You Too Could Become a Communication Expert
- •In Just 15 Minutes
- •The Development of Advertising
- •Living in Portugal
- •Theme two First Impressions
- •Text a The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- •Gestures
- •«Open» and «Closed» gestures
- •Clothes
- •Text в Girl Talk - Where You Can Buy Success in the Coffee Break
- •It is from your self-image that you:
- •Language Awareness: The Language of Newspapers Special Vocabulary
- •Style in the Tabloids
- •Theme three The Media
- •Out of Print
- •The Press at Work
- •Talking Points a. Read the extract, and answer the questions which follow
- •The Internet-Ready Resume
- •Job Applications
- •Unit three Reputation
- •In meaning to:
- •Theme two Public Image Circus People
- •The Cockney Hero with a Difference
- •Chanel public fame and private enigma
- •Robert Browning
- •A Brief History of Time
- •The Hawking Story
- •Theme three Two Women
- •Mother Teresa
- •С. Read the text and answer the questions that follow. Hounding of the Princess
- •Confronted
- •Why Diana moved us so
- •It was Tony Time
- •Section two rendering
- •Render the text in English and discuss the main points. Письма в «Тайме»
- •Принцесса Анна
- •Цена славы
- •Количество смертей, вызванных насилием в семье, значительно снизилось в графстве Санта Клара
- •I. Language focus.
- •Ш. The film discussion.
- •IV. Extention.
- •I. Discussion of the film.
- •III. Discussion of the language.
- •Diana Interviewed
- •An Interview with Margaret Thatcher
- •I. Lead-in. Discuss with other students:
- •IV. Name the three factors which, according to m. Thatcher, made up Britain.
- •V. Express your own opinion of pr technologies and political views of Margaret Thatcher.
- •Section four sample tests
- •The Fast No-fuss Way To Make Your Dreams Come True
- •Incur..........
Why She Didn't Leave
«I know this is incredibly difficult for anybody to understand)), Burnham says. People always ask: «Why didn't they get out?' My explanation to myself is that I was madly in love. I continually made up excuses for him».
Kate's reaction to Stephen's violence is all too typical, say experts. A battered woman is still a woman in love who believes she can trust her husband. The abuse may have started with snide criticism over her clothes. He may then yell about her cooking. And she thinks that maybe she can look better, maybe she should try to improve the menus. Next he slaps her over something else. He's contrite and she's forgiving. The violence escalates, and each time she blames herself for his rage. He only wants her to be perfect. If only she could be a better wife, this wouldn't be happening.
Kate drew the line after Stephen attacked her when she was pregnant with their first child. (Studies show that at least 25 percent of battered women are beaten when pregnant.) But she stayed away for only three days. He came to her on his knees, weeping. It would never, never happen again, he told her.
When the baby's head was crushed during labor, her husband decided to quit his job and help care for the sickly girl at home. In any other family that would have seemed heroic. But when Stephen found he could not make Beth well, he twisted his frustration into sadistic violence against Kate. Her eyes redden as she points to the spiral staircase in the kitchen. «I had a wineglass in my hand, and I remember being pitched down the stairs», she says in a whisper. She was so debased by that point that she thought she'd done something to deserve it. When she regained consciousness, she managed to drive herself to the hospital. She told the doctor that she'd been drinking and tripped on her robe. He duly recorded her injuries, and her flimsy story, without telling her he'd found a footprint from the kick that had sent her sprawling.
Two weeks later she left Stephen for a second time. But she had no money and no emotional support, and she had left her sick daughter behind. She went back and tried to put the best face on things. When her son, Robert, was born, she struggled to give him a happy home - but Beth's death (from complications of her brain damage) escalated Stephen's anger.
Later when Stephen threw Kate up against the refrigerator and announced he was going to kill her, she knew she had had enough. Her then-eight-year-old son's pleas to his father to leave seemed to work. When Stephen disappeared, Kate dialed for help. When he reentered the house, police hauled him off to jail in handcuffs. Despite being convicted for assault and threats to commit murder, Stephen was sentenced to only one year of probation, issued a restraining order and required to attend a banerers' treatment program.
The Double Life of Batterers
According to David Adams, a psychologist, «Batterers lead a double life, and that's even more the case for professional men who batter». They often use their status and power over their victims to deny responsibility and avoid detection. One batterer convinced his abused wife that she was deranged. A judge who routinely dismissed; all domestic-violence cases in his court-room beat his own wife. One wrecking-company owner repeatedly crushed the ringers of his deaf wife so she couldn’t use sign language to
report his savage rapes and bearings.
Experts agree that all batterers believe they have the right to use violence to get what they want. Just listen to how batterers in treatment groups describe their actions. One man said he put the kids in another room because he didn't want them to witness the bearing. Another said he took his rings off before punching his wife because he didn't want to really hurt her. That's premeditation, that's a planned pattern of coercive control.