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FAMILY RELATIO SHIP

n. 1 Ask and answer the questions in pairs.

:r1 Do you get on well with your parents?

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Ul 2 Do your parents trust you?

03 Do you sometimes talk back to them?

4 Are you often grounded?

.J5 What did you do the last time you were grounded?

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w 6 Do you always obey your parents?

7 Do you think you are a good child to your parents? 8 Are your parents often nervous?

I 9 Do they keep their promises?

10 Are your parents violent?

11 Do you often slam1 the door and go to your room?

12 Can you rely on your parents?

13 Can they rely on you?

14 Are your parents understanding?

15 Do your parents always have time to listen to your problems?

16 Do your parents know about all your problems?

17 What do you like about your parents? What do you dislike?

18 What would you do if you were in your parents' place?

19 Would you behave the same way or differently?

20 What are the possible conflicts between children and parents?

21 What do you and your parents usually argue about? Is it

 

•school and marks?

• staying out late?

• pocket money?

• friends?

• clothes?

• posters on the wall?

• telephone bills?

• your untidy room?

• doing the housework?

• doing your homework?

• listening to music too loudly?

• watching TV?

• brothers and sisters?

• playing computer games?

• going to the disco?


 

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• wearing make-up?


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READING

 

2 Read the newspaper article and match the comments (1-10) made by people with the parts (a-k) of George's story on pages 76-77.

 

TEEN TERROR

A father was jailed last week for restraining1 his daughter.

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George Trimble was jailed for a few hours last week for physically trying to prevent his IS-yearญ old daughter Susie from going to see her boyfriend. He held her by the wrise, but she managed to escape. Later, she told the police he'd assaulted her, and he was held at the station for questioning. Susie has now dropped the assault charges and the family is trying to patch things up3

0 1 Perhaps George doesn't really see the problems his daughters have.

 

 

daughters- white, well-off and around their age.

05 This could have been a 'wake-up' call for her father to see what he could

lose if he didn't start respecting her individuality .

6 He wants Susie to listen to him, but does he listen to her?

7 George clearly sees himself as the victim in the affair.

8 Perhaps George is over-ambitious for his daughters and resents the

sacrifices he made. You can't buy someone's love.

9 Maybe George unquestioningly took on the values of his parents and

now resents Susie's questioning of his values.

10 George has worked hard all his life for his family and now feels very

frustrated that his daughter isn't turning out the way he wanted.


 

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READING

 

 

GEORGE'S STORY


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0 I'm a respectable businessman and all

I'd been trying to do was keep my daughter away from drugs and bad company, and I ended up in a police cell.

@ I've got two daughters, Helen and

Susie. Helen's 17 and Susie's 15. I've had no trouble with Helen, apart from a

bit of bulimia'. Susie's the problem. She

@ used to be a lovely girl with her dolls and

toys, but a few months ago her behaviour started to deteriorate. She started dating

C\ people who were much poorer than her

\.V and staying out later at night. It was really

worrying and annoying. Her American boyfriend was coloured and much older than her, not at all suitable for her.

We had some rows2 about this, and after one row she stormed out

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@ weekend. I think she was taking drugs . W D R D

So then I started physically to stop her - lj, FI LE

going out. But one night she went out an adolescent[.<eda'lesn t )

when we'd gone to bed, and in the to assault[a's:>:lt)

CD early morning the police brought her to blame[bl'etm)

home. So I told her, 'You see what to escapeb'sketp)

happens?' I told her she'd only got to interfereLmta'fta )

herself to blame. After that, 1 hoped to obey[a'bet)

she would start listening to me. But to prevent[pn'vent)

she didn't. to reject[n'd3ektl


@ Then last week she wanted to go

out again. I had had enough. I told her, 'You're going to do as I tell you.' But she shouted she'd do what she liked. I

grabbed her by the wrists , but she

ฎ pulled herself free and ran out of the

house. I was sick with worry. And then the police came and arrested me for


to remain[n'mem)

to resent[n'zent] inevitable[m'evttabl) rebellious[n'beljas)

• to be grounded

• to be jailed

• to run out of

• in order to


 

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READING

 

 

assault! I was taken to the police station like a common criminal. After a few hours, they

released1 me on bail, and I haven't been I

charged. But it was really unpleasant. I'm just

a normal father trying to save my little girl. ;o

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My girls were lovely when they were M

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younger. I drove them to piano lessons and

drove them back. My wife always made sure0

they were dressed really nicely. We gave z

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them everything we could, the sort of things I I

never had when I was a child. They were my11

pride and joy .

Q) I don't understand this rebellious stuff. I

never spoke back to my parents. I never went out drinking. In those days, if you didn't like

something you just put up with it. I was

ฎ working when I was 16, and I've spent my life

building up a business for my family, so they

would have a better future. And now this! I

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feel like my world has fallen apart.

 

Read the article and George's story again and guess the meanings of the words from the Word File'. Then check yourself consulting a dictionary.

 

4 Work with a partner and discuss the following questions.

1 How do you feel about the fact that George was jailed?

2 If you were Susie, would you have gone to the police? Why (not)?

3 How would you have handled the situation if you had been in George's shoes?

4 Why do you think George acted the way he did? Why do you think

Susie acted the way she did? Justify your answer by referring to their

characters, childhood and environment.

 

5 Work in groups and do the task below.

Suppose you had the opportunity to talk to any of the people mentioned in the article, what questions would you ask them? Write some questions and then discuss with your mates how these people might answer them.

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READING

 

 

D-. 6 a) Brainstorm the main areas of conflict

:t between parents and adolescents.

Ul b) Think and say:

zTo what extent do you think that

such conflict is inevitable? How

.J can it be avoided?

w • What does it mean to be a good

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son or a good daughter?

- • Do you think the ability to be a

:I good parent comes naturally or

should people be taught certain rules? What rules?

 

7 Read and say which passage, A orB, more closely reflects your opinion? Explain why.

AAll people need to have their own sense of identity to cope successfully with adulthood. If an adolescent just unquestioningly takes on the values of his parents, there is no struggle for identity but this can lead to problems later on in life if the individual then starts to question these values. Most adolescents need to reject their parents' values in order to find their own. Therefore, conflict with parents is almost an essential part of growing up.

BThe amount of conflict between adolescents and their parents has been

greatly exaggerated. Most conflicts between adolescents and their parents are caused by criticism of their choice of friends, too much interference in their social life and too little financial support. However, their fundamental values tend to remain similar to those of their parents, and it is their mother and father that are most likely to consult over educational and career plans.

 


VOCABULARY

 

 

1 Brush up personality adjectives.


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