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b) What is her opinion of parents who send their children to boarding schools?
c) What does she think about the way her friends bring their children up?
7. This is the reaction of some British people to the newspaper article. In groups,
discuss your responses.
a) At least our children have some discipline and good manners and don’t demand
attention all the time. Francesca’s kids think the world revolves around them.
b) I think we are prepared to spend more time and money on our children’s education
and extra curricular activities then many foreign parents are.
c) Well at least we spend our summer holidays together and have our kids’ friends
back to the house a lot, which is more than can be said for a lot of families abroad.
d) British children grow up more independent and self-reliant because they are not
over-babied and over-protected. Lots of foreign parents are much too possessive.
8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Discuss and give your
reasons.
a) Single people do not make good parents.
b) Children of working mothers are disadvantaged.
c) Fathers and mothers should have equal responsibility for looking after their
children.
d) Younger people make better parents.
PART 4. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
1. Look at the article below and make notes on:
– what Pamela Megginson did.
– why she did it.
– what happened to her.
Include only the basic facts of what happened.
A woman scorned
Pamela Megginson, 61, of The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, was convicted at the Old
Bailey in September 1983 of murdering her millionaire lover and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Cold fear swept over Pamela Megginson as she sat in a candlelit-restaurant on
the French Riviera. Across the dinner table was the elderly lover she now hated so
much she could no longer even bear to look at him. Self- made millionaire Alec
Hubbers, aged 79, had just announced that he was leaving her for a younger woman.
Less than an hour later he was dead. The jilted divorcee had battered him repeatedly
over the head with a champague bottle.
Megginson, the daughter of an English country squire. and Hubbers, a Russian-
born Jewish Immigrant, had fallen head over heels in love many years before. For t3

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