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Text 2. Family problems

ACTIVE VOCABULARY TO REMEMBER

to honour

dead

misunderstanding

adulthood

adolescence

values

generation

gap

generation gap

drug

juvenile delinquent

to be convinced

rescue

to dial

way out

почитать, уважать, чтить

однообразный, безжизненный, неживой, мертвый

неправильное понимание, размолвка, ссора, разногласие

зрелость, взрослость; состояние зрелости организма

подростковый возраст, юность

достоинства, ценности

поколение

разрыв, глубокое расхождение (во взглядах и т. п.); недостаток

конфликт поколений, проблема отцов и детей

наркотик

малолетний преступник

быть убежденным, уверенным

спасение

набирать номер, звонить

выход из положения

"Honour your mother and father and you will live long and be well, if not, you will die" – says the Bible. Some families are happy, some are dead. It seems to me the reason is misunderstanding of each other in the family.

One more thing, teenagers can take on most of the rights and responsi­bilities of adulthood. Before this occurs, however, they go through the pe­riod of adolescence and most of them experience conflicts at that time. They change rapidly both physically and emotionally and they search self-identity as they grow up and become more independent.

Sometimes teenagers develop interests and values different from those of their parents. That sets a conflict between two generations, which leads to a gap in mutual understanding. Traditional disagreements are: the time to come home at night, doing work about the house and the friends to spend time with.

I'd like to point out, that teens face a number of problems: drinking al­cohol or using drugs. Moreover, some children run away from their homes. Most of them return after a few days or weeks, but some turn to crime and become juvenile delinquents.

I'm convinced that sometimes parents do not care about their children. It is exactly at that age when young people need a piece of advice or help. Dif­ferent TV programmes and magazines for the young come to their rescue. In case of need you can also dial a special telephone number, the so-called 'telephone of trust'.

But it's not the way out. Parents should help their children and find the right approach to them so as to make everything clear. Being able to view the problems more rationally, they should try to do their best to resolve them. We need to learn to talk our problems over in our family. If we are able to do it, everything will be all right.

Practice:

1. Answer the following questions:

1. What does the Bible say about parents? 2.What is the reason of unhappy family? 3. When do teenagers experience conflicts? 4.What sets a conflict between two generations? 5.What problems do teens face? 6.What do teenagers especially need at that age? 7.How should parents help their children? 8.What other means come to their rescue? 9.What do we need not to have problems in the family?

2. Make up the plan of the text and retell it according to your plan using the expressions from Appendix I.

UNIT 2. EDUCATION.

TEXT 1. BELGOROD UNIVERSITY

OF COOPERATION. ECONOMY AND LAW

ACTIVE VOCABULARY TO REMEMBER

a higher educational institution

granted the right

was founded in 1978 as a branch

possesses modern facilities

research and leisure

laboratories with modern equipment

volumes of books

comfortable reading-rooms

post-graduate courses

the tuition is organized on the contract basis

the compensation of all expenses

are awarded state standard diploma

different commercial organizations

a Preparatory Department

allows them to work

enterprises

various forms of ownership

- высшее учебное заведение

- имеет право

- был основан в 1978 как филиал

- имеет современное оборудование

- научно-исследовательская работа и отдых

- лаборатории с современным оборудованием

- тома книг

- удобные читальные залы

- постдипломное обучение

- обучение основано на контрактной основе

- компенсация всех затрат

- получают диплом государственного образца

- различные коммерческие организации

- подготовительное отделение

- позволяет им работать

- предприятия

- различные формы собственности

Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economy and Law is a higher educational institution. It is granted the right to carry out activities in the field of secondary, higher, post-graduate and professional education.

The University was founded in 1978 as a branch of Poltava Cooperative Institute. The student body of the University is about 23, 000 including its branches. The number of full-time students is about 11, 000.

The University possesses modern facilities for study, research and leisure. They include 21 lecture halls, 20 computer classes, 70 laboratories with modern equipment and computers, a library containing 400 000 volumes of books, 3 comfortable reading-rooms, a cafeteria, a gym and a print shop. More than 1, 000 students live in 3 hostels.

The University consists of 11 faculties, 24 departments, post-graduate courses and several branches. The tuition at the University is organized on the contract basis of 5-year full-time course with the compensation of all expenses for training a specialist. The University graduates are awarded state standard diploma. Male students are freed from the service in the Army.

The University trains specialists of market economy for the system of consumer cooperatives and for other fields of economy who can work in different commercial organizations, the marketing departments of plants and factories, banks, stock exchanges, customs, supermarkets and so on.

Training specialists of high qualification is carried out both at the day-time and correspondence departments in the following specialties:

  • Accounting and Audit;

  • Finance and Credit;

  • Taxes, Taxation;

  • Information Systems;

  • Management;

  • Marketing;

  • Law (Jurisprudence);

  • Catering;

  • Economics and Management

at Enterprise;

  • World Economy;

  • Customs Business;

  • Merchandising and

Commodity Expertise;

  • Statistics;

  • Service and some others.

At the University there is a special Department for those who want to get the second higher education, a Preparatory Department and Extra-Mural Department.

High level of professional training of graduates from Belgorod University of Cooperation, Economy and Law allows them to work in any sector of consumer cooperation as well as enterprises and institutions of various forms of ownership.