- •Предисловие
- •Unit 1. Types of Family in Modern Society
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •The British Family
- •The American Family
- •The Future of the Family
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Британская семья
- •The Family
- •The Problem of (Cohabit)
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •III. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •2. Class Activities
- •IV. Dialogue Discourse Modelling
- •2. Class Activities
- •Unit 2. What Makes a Good Parent? Family Discipline and Changes in Parental Authority
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •Permissiveness: “a Beautiful Idea” that Didn’t Work?
- •Comprehension Check
- •Article Rendering: Basic Structure Build-Up
- •Parents Are Too Permissive with Their Children Nowadays
- •1. Fill in the columns in the chart with the corresponding adjectives and phrases from the list below. Some descriptions may fit into both columns.
- •2. When you have completed the chart, pick out all the (1) synonyms and (2) antonyms to the following characteristics.
- •1. Synonyms 2. Antonyms
- •3. Make use of the completed chart to give a brief sketch of each child/parent type. Use the following questions as a guide.
- •Difficult Children
- •The Monster Children
- •Life Styles: “What Makes a Good Parent”?
- •Ivan sokolov
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •The Power of No
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Agree or disagree with the quotations below. Be sure to provide solid arguments.
- •II. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •III. Polylogue Discourse Modelling
- •1. Out-of-class Projecting
- •Debate Techniques
- •Introduction
- •Arguments and Counter-arguments
- •Questions
- •2. Class Activities
- •IV. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •Individual Argumentative Techniques
- •Project on a Problem Situation
- •Introduction
- •2. Class Activities
- •V. Written Discourse Skills Development
- •Unit 3. Problems of a Young Family
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •Additional Vocabulary List
- •The Child Care Dilemma
- •Comprehension and Discussion Guide
- •It’s 10:00 a.M.: Do You Know What Your Sitter’s Doing?
- •Smart ways to check on your sitter
- •It’s 4:00 p.M.: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Back to Day Care
- •Что творят с детьми няни (…или Как проследить за процессом воспитания)
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Written Discourse Modelling
- •2. Class Activities:
- •II. Polylogue Discourse Modelling
- •III. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •Unit 4. Hazards of Teenage Sex
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •Teenage Sex: Just Say “Wait”
- •Lower the Age of Consent
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Дочки-матери
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Polylogue Discourse Modelling
- •III. Dialogue Discourse Modelling
- •2. Class Activities
- •Unit 5. Problems of a Young Family Young Adults: Living in Parental Homes or Living Away?
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •Show Me the Way to Go Home
- •Comprehension and Discussion Guide
- •Back to Mum After All This Time
- •Could You Throw Out Your Child?
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Is Your Nest Too Full?
- •Bit of a Crowd in the Empty Nest
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Polylogue Discourse Modelling
- •II. Written Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Background Reference Information
- •II. Letter Structure Focus
- •III. Sample Letter Publication Foreword
- •Unit 6. Marriage and Divorce
- •Focus Vocabulary List
- •Vast Majority of Americans Still Believe in the Family
- •Comprehension and Discussion Guide
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •In Great Britain, an Easier Out
- •Divorce
- •Integrated Discourse Skills Development
- •I. Polylogue Discourse Modelling
- •2. Class Activities
- •II. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •Individual Argumentative Techniques
- •III. Written Discourse Development
- •IV. Monologue Discourse Modelling
- •References
- •Contents
Comprehension and Discussion Guide
Why does the author claim that single and married young adults no longer choose to live away from their family home? What statistic data prove the point?
Was the situation different until recently? What are (were) adult young people motivated by when they leave their parental shelters and start living on their own?
to vie for independence; to hate restriction on one’s independence; to struggle to establish one’s own separate identity.
Analysts cite a variety of reasons for these changes in lifestyle. So what makes adult young people – single and married – stay on or in back, return to the nest?
housing problems: to depend on one’s parents for housing; skyrocketing housing costs; ridiculous to pay all that money for rent to have to keep/support one’s own modest household; to be economically pressed; to take out loans; to cover payments on smth; to save to buy smth; to admit to expensive tastes; to be forced into debts; not to be able to pay off the debts, loans; to find one’s wings clipped;
exorbitant expenses of an away-from-home education: to attend local schools; to commute to a nearby college;
moral, social, psychological: marriage age rising; “Home and its amenities particularly attractive to young people”; high divorce rate; marriage break-up; declining remarriage rate; emotionally vulnerable; emotionally battered; to feel miserable;
advantages of living at home with one’s parents: to need help; to give financial and moral security and moral support; to make the family closer; (to welcome) to have 3 generations in the same house; to make success of the arrangement.
Why do some psychologists believe that it is unhealthy for several generations of a family to live together for a long period of time?
to share the family home; to require adjustments for all/to require accommodation; to manage the delicate balancing; to involve compromise; to create stress; hassles over bathroom, telephone, privacy, etc.
single adult young people: difficult setup; to dislike/hate constant control, pressure, restriction on one’s independence (drinking, dating, friendships, home duties, relationships, etc.); to never really grow up; infantile; to have difficulty in achieving one’s own separate identity; wind up with a sense of inadequacy, defeat and failure;
married adult young people: to stir up tensions, hostility; to have three generations living in the same house. Why can it be a disaster sometimes? Provide your own arguments;
parents: aging parents; to return to the nest; put-upon parents; to make room for one’s adult children; to enjoy some financial and personal freedom; to find oneself bogged down with responsibilities.
Conclusion: (made by researcher Debra Umberson, University of Michigan) Living with children of any age involves compromise and obligation, factors that can be detrimental to some aspects of well-being. All children, even adult children, require accommodation and create stress.
How long should adult children live with their parents before moving on? What do most psychologists feel about lengthy homecomings? What alternative do they suggest?
brief visits; to work beneficially; a positive experience; to need help; to make much closer; to put out the welcome mat.
What are some of the situations that have caused the young adults in the article to return to their parents’ homes?
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