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Jigsaw Reading
Exercise 1. Discuss the following questions:
1. Who do you look like?
2. Who do you take after in character?
3. Do you think you will bring up your children similarly to the way your
parents brought you up? Do you intend to be more/less strict? More/less
indulgent?
4. In what way do you hope your children’s life will be better than yours?
Exercise 2. Read the feature in a magazine in which members of the same
family describe their relationship, James Mitford, an actor, and his
daughter Amy.
As you are reading, try to answer the questions. You won’t be able to answer
them all, so try to guess the answer if you’re not sure.
James Mitford: My wife and I only had the one child. It might have been nice
to have a son, but we didn't plan a family, we just had Amy.
I see her as my best friend. I think she'd always come to me first if she
had a problem. We have the same sense of humour, and share interests. I don't
mind animals, but she's completely obsessed with them, and she has always had
dogs, cats, horses, and goldfish in her life.
We were closest when she was about four, which I think is a lovely age
for a child. They know the parents best, and don't have the outside contacts. She
must have grown up suddenly when she went to school, because I remember her
growing away from her family slightly. Any father who has a teenager daughter
comes across an extraordinary collection of people, and there seemed to be an
endless stream of strange young men coming through our house. By the time I'd
learned their names they'd gone away and I had to start learning a new lot. I
remember I told her off once in front of her friends and she didn't talk to me for
days afterwards.
I wanted more than anything else for her to be happy in what she was
doing, and I was prepared to pull strings to help her on her way. She went to a
good school, but that didn't work out. She must have upset somebody. When
she left she decided she wanted to become an actress so I got her into drama
school. It wasn't to her liking so she joined a theatre group and began doings
bits and pieces in films. She was doing well, but then gave it up. She probably
found it boring. Then she took up social work, and finally went to work for a
designer and he became her husband. And that's really the story of her life. She
must be happy with him — they're always together.
We have the same tastes in books and music, but it takes me a while to
get used to new pop songs. I used to take her to see the opera, which is my big
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