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2.10 Прочтите текст FAMILY MATTERS – TWO POINTS OF
VIEW ON A FAMILY RELATIONSHIP. Обсудите следующие
вопросы с партнером.
• Who do you look more like, your mother or your father?
• Who are you more like in character, your mother or your father?
• Do you want to bring up your children in the same way you were
brought up?
2.11 В статье одного из журналов два представителя одной и
той же семьи рассказывают о своих отношениях друг с другом.
работайте в группах.
Группа A. Прочтите, что Оливер Дэроу говорит о своей дочери,
Кармен.
Группа Б. Прочтите, что Кармен говорит о своем отце.
FAMILY MATTERS – TWO POINTS OF VIEW ON A FAMILY
RELATIONSHIP
Oliver Darrow, actor, talks about his daughter, Carmen
My first wife and I only had one child. It might have been nice to
have more. I would have liked a son, but we just had Carmen. I see her as
my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem.
We have the same sense of humour and share many interests, except that
she's crazy about animals, obsessed with them - she has always had dogs,
cats, and horses in her life. We were closest when she was about four,
which I think is a wonderful age for a child.
That's when they need their parents most. But as soon as Carmen
went to school, she seemed to grow up and grow apart from her family,
and any father finds it difficult with a teenage daughter. She was very
moody and had an odd group of friends. There was an endless stream of
strange young men coming to our house. I remember I once got annoyed
with her in front of her friends and she didn't talk to me for days.
I've always wanted the best for her. We sent her to a good school,
but she wasn't happy there. She left because she wanted to become an
actress, so with my connections I got her into drama school, but she didn't
like that either. She worked for a while doing small roles in films, but she
must have found it boring because she gave it up, though she never really

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