Методические указания и контрольное задание №5 по английскому языку. Доржиева Г.Б - 17 стр.

of minor offences, while recorded criminality is of a grosser           4. social status
nature. Other factors, such as parental criminality, parental drug      5. minor offences
abuse, mental problems and broken families, appear as a                 6. mental problems
general rule to have more influence than social status in               7. offences of a grosser nature
determining whether or not young persons turn to crime.                 8. broken families
    3. One factor which appears to be more closely connected            9. strictness of norms
with juvenile crime than any of those mentioned previously is           10. family background
the way in which young persons have been brought up. The
absence of clear standards of upbringing, whether reflected by       IV. Entitle each paragraph of the text using the given headings:
lack of norms or an unstable code of norms, presents what in           1. The connection of parental social status with children’s
this type of survey is an unusually close connection with            criminality.
juvenile criminality. The strictness of norms, on the other hand,      2. Surveys of family background.
does not appear to be very important.                                  3. The commonest factors of juvenile crime.
                                                                       4. Standards of upbringing.
II. а) Read the following sentences and point out the numbers of
the sentences which correspond to the content of the text.           V. Rewrite and translate passage 2 in written form.
   b) Correct sentences with the wrong information and rewrite.
     1. Family background is an important factor of children’s       VI. Clichés for rendering of the article:
        criminality.                                                 I. INTRODUCTION
     2. The connection between family social status and              The headline of the article
        juvenile delinquency is rather strong.                            - The article I’ve read (looked through) is headlined …(is
     3. Whether or not young persons turn to crime depend on                 entitled…, is called…)
        parental criminality, drug abuse, mental problems and             - The article under rendering is entitled…
        divorced parents.                                                 - The article is headlined…
     4. Proper upbringing prevents young people from unstable        II. GIST (the main idea of the article)
        code of norms.                                                    - The article is devoted to …, is about…, is concerned…
     5. Strictness of norms for children appears to be a major            - The article deals with …, touches upon …, concerns…
        factor of upbringing.                                             - The main idea of the article is…
                                                                     III. SUMMARY (the contents of the article)
III. Arrange the factors which influence the growth of juvenile           - The story opens with…
crime, using the information from the text in grosser nature.             - In the introduction to the article the author mentions…
                                                                          - The author believes, depicts, dwells on, touches on,
Model:                                                                       explains, considers, analyses, comments on, points out,
  1. parental drug abuse                                                     enumerates, makes a few critical remarks on, accuses,
  2. parental occupation, education, income                                  exposes.
  3. upbringing                                                           - The article goes on to say that…