Vocabulary Items Term 7 Social Issues

Nuclear family extended family cohabitation divorce rate juvenile crime maintenance consumerism exposure to drugs

stimulating parental style supportive parental style lenient sentencing hereditary studies nature \ nurture debate left\ right hemisphere child prodigy to handicap

hard slog to pay off callousness a spendthrift a sneak a fickle friend physiognomy IQ

British Character

Continuity modernity irrelevant to sth. to lag behind the time English breakfast stereotype

reluctant hostility a swot scruffy breach of privacy flag day

jumble sales voluntary \ volunteer hypocrisy ancestor multiculturalism

Monarchy in gb

The Civil List The Commonwealth The Windsor Castle

The Way Ahead Committee The primogeniture law The royal assent

anti-monarchists / anti-royalists figurehead

Term 7 Examination Speaking Points

22. Personality studies.

23. Modern family values.

24. The British versus the Americans.

25. British stereotypes.

26. Customs and traditions in GB.

27. Monarchy or republic in GB?

Home Test 2

SOCIAL ISSUES

1. Give definitions to the following words and phrases:

1. fickle friend

2. to handicap a child in the future

3. slog

4. cohabitation

5. physiognomy

6. nuclear family

7. hereditary studies

8. burden

9. poverty trap

10. to go to enormous lengths to do sth

II. In each set of words and word combinations spot the one which does not relate to the others.

1. a) inhibit b) stop c) delay d) promote

2. a) cruel b) ruthless c) callous d) greedy

3. a) lewd b) mysterious c) obscene d) bawdy

4. a) big spender b) squanderer c) spendthrift d) rascal

5. a) to cover up b) to disclose c) to testify d) to attest

III. Insert prepositions where necessary:

1) The distinct glint in Mona Lisa’s eyes attests … her bawdy sense of humour and her eyes spell … a clear message: if another woman was … her lover, she would punish the enemy by any means.

2) Supportive parents praise whatever level of achievement results … their children’s pet interests.

3) The long and hard slog will definitely pay … when children grow up into successful adults.

4) A great number of women are employed … a part-time basis and are expected to supplement … the husband’s income.

5) Marriage was traditionally looked … as a sacred bond between man and woman.

IV. Translate from Russian into English:

1. юношеская преступность

2. воспитывать ребёнка

3. изнурительный период работы

4. гениальный ребёнок

5. подавлять способности

6. исследовать гены

7. кратковременный союз

8. дискуссия о том, что важнее в формировании личности—гены или воспитание

9. светские манеры

10. дать детям хорошую подготовку, которая обеспечит им преимущество перед другими

11. быть отмеченным божьим перстом (idiom)

12. «мягкое» наказание в суде

13. родители, воспитывающие ребенка самостоятельно

14. иметь полный рабочий день

Key to Home Test 2

I.

1. unreliable friend

2. to disadvantage; to make it difficult for children to do something that they want or need to do

3. hard work

4. living with another person and having a sexual relationship with them without being married

5. judging human character by facial features

6. a family unit that consists only of a husband, wife and children

7. studies of the genes and those qualities that are passed from a parent to a child before the child is born

8. something that causes worry, difficulty or hard work

9. a situation in which a poor person without a job cannot afford to take a low paying job because they would lose the money they receive from the government

10. to try very hard or to do whatever is necessary to achieve something that is important to you

II. 1d; 2d; 3b; 4d; 5a

III.

1. to; out; after

2. from

3. off

4. on; -

5. upon

IV.

1. juvenile crime/delinquency

2. to bring up/nurture/raise a child

3. a gruelling period of work

4. a child prodigy

5. to inhibit one’s aptitudes

6. to track down one’s genes

7. a transient bond

8. the nature/nurture debate

9. worldly ways

10. to give children a head start

11. to be touched by the divine finger

12. lenient sentence

13. single parents

14. to work full-time/to be employed on a full-time basis

Home Test 3

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERISTICS (after the text Attitudes)