3. Tick the sentences you do or think the same way:
1. I find it easy to talk with my parents and have talked with them recently about TV when work is done.
2. I would like to talk about boys and low marks at school, but I haven’tdone so.
3. I am embarrassed to talk about boys, and I don’t like to think about poor marks.
4. Both my father and mother are easily available to talk with me.
5. The things that gripe me about my parents are that they argue with me about things which we’ve discussed.
6. Also, I don’t like the way other people’s parents argue with their kids when you are around.
7. My parents influence me with their actions when they say to keep my voice down and then they yell.
8. I think I know better how I should behave with boys than my parents do.
4. Use the words from the brackets to complete the sentences:
(Income, arrangement, allowance, expenses, pleasure, family, baby-sitting)
1. My ______________________ $ 4.00 a week, was decided on by a discussion and addition of things I’d need to spend.
2. I spend it on Christmas, Sunday school, carfare, and $ 1.00 for _________.
3. The _________________-is fair, because I have enough and can save 50 cent to $ 1.00 per week.
4. I earn money by _____________________for myself.
5. I don’t know my family’s _______________. It’s none of my business.
6. I am consulted about clothes ______________ house expenses, camp and trips.
7. As a ______________together we have especially enjoyed a trip to Montana and seeing museum dinosaurs.
5. Complete the sentences with the words from the brackets. Comment upon them:
(Group, attractive, friendship, friends, school, kids)
1. Most ______________have no difficulty with making ____________ in the class and at ______.
2. But there is a small ____________ in any class-often fine, ________children-who have no friends.
3. __________________are individual matter and no one can force them.
6. Read the following text and find answers to the following questions:
1. Why are children regarded a vital part of a family?
2. How does the birth f a child influence family relationships?
3. What is the ideal purpose of raising children?
4. What is understood by primary socialization?
5. What qualities should a family develop in their children?
6. What effect may unsatisfactory relations between parents have on children?
For most people, children are the key to a happy family life. Sociologists regard the raising of children as the primary function of the family. Childbirth is not just a biological fact. It is equally a social phenomenon. People have to readjust their roles as they become not only husband and wife to each other but also parents to their child. The birth of a child also influences relationships between the new parents and their own parents who take on their new role as grandparents. In most cases grandparents tend to be indulgent toward their grandchildren, while the parents themselves are stricter. Obviously, the specific social adjustment people must make after the birth of a child differ according to individual circumstances and cultural attitude. No matter what pattern is followed, however, ideally the children are brought up to become productive members of their society. To achieve this, they must get proper education within the family and, later, within the institutions of the society as a whole.
7. Comment upon the following situations. Tick the sentence if you’re the same opinion:
1. About personal problems, I’d talk them over with Mom and Dad, and the same for academic problems.
2. I don’t go steady and don’t want to. I’d rather play the field.
3. I got my sex information from my mother and from a book ‘It’s time you knew’, which was valuable to me.
4. I have all the information I want, but if I had a problem I’d discuss it with my mother.
5. As for smoking, I disapprove of it, haven’t done it and wouldn’t do it.
6. My father disapproves smoking but mother thinks it’s OK.
7. On kissing games, I disapprove, haven’t done, but I guess I would do it if I had the chance.
8. On these kissing games my father approves and my mother disapproves.
9. I don’t think you should start having dates till you are sixteen.
10. We all approve of alcohol, and I’ve drunk some, but I think it’s better to wait until you’re twenty-two.
11. I wear lipstick, but my father is against it.
8. Discuss the following statements:
1. I have smoked, but disapprove of it and wouldn’t do it again. My father and mother disapprove it too.
2. I think it’s OK to smoke after you are twenty-five.
3. I have played kissing games; my mother disapproves of them.
4. I don’t approve of drinking alcohol and have not done it. After 25 It’s OK, but not to excess.
9. Complete the sentences with the words from the brackets:
(Odd, shoveling, fair, family, earn, cutting)
1. I get no allowance, which I think is _______________, because I________ my spending money.
2. I get $ 3.00 for __________the lawn, and about 50 cents an hour for other _______jobs.
3. I shovel snow free but have made as much as $ 8.00 in a day ________other people’s snow.
4. I don’t know what my _____________________’s income is and don’t think I should know.
LESSON 2
