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

   -   In the introduction to the article the author mentions…             3.   household (n) – домашний круг, семья
   -   The author believes, depicts, dwells on, touches on,                4.   sample (n) – образец
       explains, considers, analyses, comments on, points out,             5.   survey (n) – исследование
       enumerates, makes a few critical remarks on, accuses,               6.   couple (n) – супружеская пара
       exposes.                                                            7.   divorce (n) – развод
    - The article goes on to say that…                                     8.    wedlock (n) – брак
    - According to the article...
    - The story ends with…                                                   Changes in the “Traditional” American Family
    - Finally, the author concludes that…
IV.THE PROBLEMS raised in the article. The author’s                       1. The U.S. government is interested in trends that affect
treatment of the problems.                                            the American family. To investigate how families are changing,
    - The author raises the problem of …                              every ten years the U.S. Census Bureau collects data on all
    - Saying all these the author raises the problem …                American households. From the information it receives, the
    - The problem raised by the author is very serious / acute,       bureau examines such important aspects of American life as
       pressing…                                                      family size and composition. It can then compare its findings
V. COMMENTS (your treatment of the problem).                          with the results of the censuses taken in the past to identify
    - I agree with the author here…                                   trends in the American family.
    - I disagree with the author and I’d like to reason it…               2. Information from a sample of 57,400 households
    - In my commentary I’d like to dwell on …/ point out,             surveyed by the Census Bureau in March of 1990 indicates that
       emphasize, outline, analyze…                                   the “traditional” American family – a family consisting of two
VI. CONCLUSION (your opinion of the article).                         parents and children under the age of 18 - is on the decline. The
    - In conclusion I’d like to say…                                  “traditional” family made up only 40 percent of U.S.
    - I found the article up-to-date / urgent, topical, dull, of no   households in 1970, 31 percent in 1980, and 26 percent in the
       value, of no importance…                                       year 1990. The more than 70 percent of households falling
    - The article turned out to be very informative…                  outside of the category “traditional” family includes -
                                                                      households consisting of never–married parents and children,
                                                                      divorced parents and children, couples without children, parents
                         Вариант 2                                    and children over 18 years of age, people living alone, and
Задание I.                                                            unrelated adults living in the same household.
I. Read the text and answer the question in written form, using           3. Findings of this survey reveal other interesting trends in
the vocabulary list.                                                  American family life. One finding was that while the rate of
What is the composition of the “traditional” American family?         divorce and childbirth out of wedlock (involving couples not
                                                                      married) continued to increase, both of these phenomena
                         Vocabulary list:                             increased at a slower pace during the 1980s than during the
       1. affect (v) – влиять                                         previous decade. But the number of unmarried couples living
       2. the Census Bureau – Бюро переписи населения                 together appears to be increasing rapidly, with the number in