- •2.Talk about the person*s recollections of his childhood and his family.
- •3. Talk about the qualities a woman needed in a first half of 20th to make a career in a male-dominated profession in Britain («My Great Aunt»).
- •4.Talk about modern writer and give life-story about his mother.
- •5. Talk about talk about Laurie Lee and personality features of his mother that made him admire her.
- •6. Talk about the psychological problems and changes in the behaviour of a child. Compare them with those your bro/sist/ had when was a child(«Dear Editors»).
- •7.Talk about the daily chores of a British house wife.Compere them with those a young woman in this country.
- •8. Talk about the attitude of a housewife to the hardships of life.
- •9.Talk about a visitor’s impressions of a quiet country inn.
- •10.Describe an old English country inn.
- •11. Talk about the precautions people should take about their house when going on holiday.
- •12. Talk about the famous state buildings(White house).
- •13. Talk about the advantages and disadvantages of having a big or a small family ( I prefer a big family).
- •14. Talk about nationality traits as seen by the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish (Section I, Unit 3).
- •15. Talk about the problems that Marriage Guidance Council deals with.
- •17.Talk about the requirements to an ideal house.
- •18.Talk about the house rules for those who lodge in Britain.
8. Talk about the attitude of a housewife to the hardships of life.
To be a housewife is not an easy thing to do and I think that a housewife doesn’t feel very happy about her life.
In the morning she is already exhausted, bad-tempered, drained of patience, because another day of soul destroying solitude looms ahead.
The hardships of her life are the same every day: her son wants her tea in the morning , her daughter presents a few problems, the youngest wants his mother to play with him. She has to hurtle around the kitchen from frying pan to fridge and back again in response to the children’s persistent demands. She knows that if there is anything less than porridge, bacon and eggs, tea and toast they will be picketing outside the child welfare clinic.
She loathes, hates, abhors housework nevertheless that is what she doesn’t. Moreover she has to save on washing powder, hot water and electricity. Facing financial problems she tries to be strong and optimistic. She regards their monetary malaise as a temporary condition brought on by inflution and curable in time. If she didn’t she’d go insane.
Every day is exactly the same except weekends, when they take lots of walks, feed ducks, swing on swings and visit the library.
So the housewife’s life is really difficult and I’m convinced that having a job can make it easier.
9.Talk about a visitor’s impressions of a quiet country inn.
I’m a romantic person and quiet, beautiful places have always impressed me.To my mind it’s very enjoyable to spend a night in a quiet country inn where you can stay, where every stone remembers ancient times, like the inn described in the text we read. A lucky visitor draws up outside an old wooden gate, open to show a tee-lined path leading to a grey stone church with an aged stone tower.He sees to old men dozing contentedlyon a seat which circles an even older elm-tree opposite the gate.
But loveliest of all, a two-stored inn faces the river, unchanged surely for the past five hundred years.Such peaceful surroundings touch and calm.And he feels at peace with the world.His room is certainly very old with a low beamed ceiling, a small window looking out on green hils and the sound of the river just below.It is spotlessly clean buthas a few disadvantages.It’s stuffy and very cold at the same, the window refuses to open, there are no coat-hangers and no towel and the water is icy-cold and runs away slowly. But the hostess is nice and gives him all he needs even a small oil heater.
The cold meal is excellent washed down be some of the local cider and followed by a good country cheese with biscuits.
Then he has a lounge to himself, apart from the radio. The fire roasts his legs, the cats purr, the clock in the hall ticks slowly and all this makes him feel good. Next day he is happy about the eggs and bacon and the freshy-made tea are bether than any he has ever had. And he thinks: «How nice to be alive». I’m sure that having had so good rest at this place everyone will find his way back there one fine day.