Family. Ильичева Н.М - 18 стр.

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6) Members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – don’t keep in
touch with each other.
7) Each generation is keen to become independent of parents in establishing its
own family unit.
8) Relationships within the British family are different now.
9) More than half of all old people are looked after at home.
10) Many others live in Old People’s Homes, which are private.
11) The English are a nation of stay-at-homes.
12) Most American families consist of a mother, a father and two children.
13) It is usual for members of the family other than the husband, wife and
children to live together.
14) The nuclear family is economically dependent of the rest of the family.
15) In the American family the husband and wife usually share important
decision making, the children do not participate in it.
16) Foreign observers are frequently amazed by the permissiveness of
American parents.
17) Americans believe strongly that parents should decide the course of their
children’s life.
18) Young people are expected to break from their families by the time they
have reached thirty.
19) The job-retirement age in the USA is 60.
20) Elderly couples feel useless and lonely with neither an occupation nor a
close family group.
21) An “ideal” family is one that consists of a husband, a wife, and their
dependent children.
Exercise 1.3. Comment upon the following proverbs and illustrate their
meanings.
1) There is no place like home.
2) The Englishman’s home is his castle.
Exercise 1.4. Supply the missing prepositions and adverbs where
necessary.
1. There are many different views ... family life.
2. A “typical” British family used to consist ... a mother, a father and two
children, but ... recent years there have been many changes ... family life.
3. One marriage ... three now ends ... divorce.
4. The majority ... divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take
responsibility ... a second family.
5. ... general, each generation is keen to become independent ... parents ...
establishing its own family unit.
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