Here are 5 questions once again
Fill in the missing words
1) My parents have been ________ for 18 years.
2) My parents are the two ___________ people in my life
3) ___________ help to break the whole family together
4) I believe that everything _________ in a family.
5) I think the main reasons for generation gap are.......
6) If I were asked to describe my family in one word, this word would be..... because......
7) Unfortunately today young couples _______ rather quickly
8) Children born out of __________ tend to be uphappy
9) I believe my parents gave me the best _____________ that I could only wish for
10) To be on good terms with the parents means ____________________
11) When I grow up, I will build ____________________________family
12) I find my parents to be very wise that's why I always try to ____________
13) I think I'm kind of responsible for ______ all my family traditions from one generation to another
14) Parents should _________ children _________ because they are future _________ of their country and these are the societal rules which should be followed.
15) Family is not necessarily the people but the __________
16) To be a good son/ daughter I always...........
17) My parents are doctors that's why I'd like to _____________footsteps
18) My elder sister is a shoulder to______________
19) I'm trying to be like my mum: independent and confident. She is a true_________ for me
20) There is no place like ___________, I always feel ______ when I'm not with my family
What
is family for you?
Are
you on good terms with your parents and grandparents?
What
will you ask a British teenager about his or her family?
What
can you advise people who want to have good relationships with their relatives?
What
do you think about the generation gap? Is it a serious problem?
Fill in the missing words
1) My parents have been ________ for 18 years.
2) My parents are the two ___________ people in my life
3) ___________ help to break the whole family together
4) I believe that everything _________ in a family.
5) I think the main reasons for generation gap are.......
6) If I were asked to describe my family in one word, this word would be..... because......
7) Unfortunately today young couples _______ rather quickly
8) Children born out of __________ tend to be uphappy
9) I believe my parents gave me the best _____________ that I could only wish for
10) To be on good terms with the parents means ____________________
11) When I grow up, I will build ____________________________family
12) I find my parents to be very wise that's why I always try to ____________
13) I think I'm kind of responsible for ______ all my family traditions from one generation to another
14) Parents should _________ children _________ because they are future _________ of their country and these are the societal rules which should be followed.
15) Family is not necessarily the people but the __________
16) To be a good son/ daughter I always...........
17) My parents are doctors that's why I'd like to _____________footsteps
18) My elder sister is a shoulder to______________
19) I'm trying to be like my mum: independent and confident. She is a true_________ for me
20) There is no place like ___________, I always feel ______ when I'm not with my family
№ 8
I. 1. Read
the story and say in 2—3 sentences what it is about.
Great grandad
It
was a funny and surprising thing that brought Grandad back to me. It was
algebra. I couldn’t cope with algebra in my first year at secondary school, and
it made me mad. “I don’t see the point of it,” I screamed. “I don’t know what
it’s for!”
Grandad,
as it turned out, liked algebra and he sat opposite me and didn’t say anything
for a while, considering my problem in that careful expressionless way of his.
Eventually
he said, “Why do you do PE1 at school?”
“What?”
“PE.
Why do they make you do it?”
“Because
they hate us?” I suggested.
“And
the other reason?”
“To
keep us fit, I suppose.”
“Physically
fit, yes.”
He
reached across the table and put the first two fingers of each hand on the
sides of my head.
“There
is also mental fitness, isn’t there? I can explain to you why algebra is
useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.”
He
moved his fingers gently on my head.
“It’s
to keep what is in here healthy. PE is for the head. And the great thing is you
can do it sitting down. Now, let us use these little puzzles here to take our
brains for a jog2.”
And
it worked. Not that I fell in love with algebra. But I did come to see that it
was possible to enjoy it. Grandad taught me that maths signs and symbols were
not just marks on paper. They were not flat. There were threedimensional, and
you could approach them from different directions. You could take them apart
and put them together in a variety of shapes, like Lego. I stopped being afraid
of them.
I
didn’t know it at the time, of course, but those homework sessions helped me to
discover my Grandad. Algebra turned out to be the key that opened the invisible
door he lived behind and let me in.
Now
I learnt that Grandad’s world was full of miracles and mazes3,
mirrors and misleading signs. He was fascinated by riddles and codes and
labyrinths4, by the origin of place names, by grammar, by slang, by
jokes — although he never laughed at them — by anything that might mean
something else. I discovered My Grandad.
1 PE [ˌpiːˈiː] физкультура
2
to take our brains for a jog [əˈdʒɒɡ] шевелить мозгами
3
a maze [meɪz] путаница
4
a labyrinth [ˈlæbərɪnθ] лабиринт
2. The
author says she had problems with algebra. Find this extract and read it aloud.
3. How
did the girl’s Granddad help her
understand the subject?
4. What
else did the author understand about her Granddad?
II. Listen to the member of the Greenpeace
organisation telling a story about whales and answer the questions below.
1. How did Uncle Roger explain to the boy why the whales were on
the beach?
2. How did the people help them?
3. How did this event affect the story-teller’s life?
III. Let’s talk about your future career.
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