Family. Ильичева Н.М - 17 стр.

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8) Why do members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – see
less of each other than they used to?
9) Is each generation keen to become independent of parents in establishing its
own family unit? Where does it lead to?
10) Relationships within the family are different now, aren’t they? Prove it.
11) Who looks after the older generation?
12) Are the English a nation of stay-at-homes?
13) And what is the American family like?
14) Do American families usually maintain separate households?
15) Is the nuclear family unit economically independent of the rest of the
family?
16) Who usually shares important decision making in the American family?
17) Foreign observers are frequently amazed by the permissiveness of
American parents, aren’t they?
18) Is independence highly valued in the United States?
19) At what age are young people expected to break from their families?
20) When do American aging people retire?
21) Why do elderly couples feel useless and lonely?
22) Who sponsors social centres for “senior citizens”?
23) What is a family? Must we take account of the many different family forms
that have existed or still exist both in America and in other countries?
Exercise 1.2. Are these statements true or false? Use the phrases in the list.
True False
I fully agree with you! I disagree with you!
I’m of the same opinion. I differ from you.
That’s all right! Far from it.
That’s it! Just it! Exactly so! Just the reverse.
I’m all for it! Just the other way round!
Undoubtedly. Nothing of the kind.
Beyond all doubts. I object to it.
Looks like that. It makes no sense.
I think so. I expect so. By no means.
1) There are many different views on family life.
2) The family unit in Britain is in crisis and the traditional family life is in the
past.
3) A “typical” British family used to consist of a mother, a father and three
children.
4) There have been no changes in British family life recently.
5) Marriage and the family are not so popular as they once were.
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