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Control work IV-III
Part 1 3.16. Read the newspaper article from the “Guardian” and formulate the issue under discussion. Comment on the headline: I suppose that the issue under that discussion may be following: the attitude to love greatly changes from infancy through adolescence. Children believe that love is “being kind, and holding hands and getting married”; in other words, love is a very simple thing. Teenagers consider that on the one hand, love is “expensive and hard work”; on the other hand, love is “nice and secure” but may be dangerous; in other words, they have some hands-on experience and see different sides of love. As regards the headline “Love is … Nice and secure. Love is … Dangerous”, I suppose that the author tries to show different views on love, ambiguity and variety of this phenomenon. Even people of the same age can see love in different ways because of their different hands-on experience. One considers love is a dangerous and painful business because of unrequited love, another one believes that love is very romantic and sentimental. I think that the author succeeded in expressing the great variety of views on love and consider that this headline is proper to this article.
3.18. How does the children’s attitude to love change from infancy through adolescence? Children believe that love is a very simple thing. They suppose that all comes to holding hands and getting married. At the age of about six they have future conquests planned down to the last details: they consider that it is very important to buy their girl-(or boy-)-friends chocolates and write love letters. When children became older, they get some experience and perceive various sides of love. Teenagers’ view on love differs from the childish one. Victories and failures create different views on love. Love may be pain or happiness, dangerous or sentimental – it depends on great deal of conditions. The attitude to love becomes mature and complex from infancy through adolescence.
Part 25.1. Read the newspaper article (pp 201-202) 5.3. Point out the problems the one-parent family is confronted with: According to the article “Loving Struggle with Tears and Taunts” there is a whole series of problems the one-parent family is confronted with. Mainly these problems concern children. Mother, father and home are the child’s whole world. Divorce is a great stress for children of any age. Children miss their absent father or mother and it makes them suffer. They still love both parents and think they are responsible. A child living with one parent frequently thinks to himself: “I did it - they blame me - they don’t love me”. These feelings can lead to anger, fear and feelings of resentment. He may not actually say these things, but he can feel them very deeply. In addition to the inner child’s problems, there is a great number of external problems. Children may have problems at school and with his/her friends from two-parent families. School friends often taunt children with not having a father or a mother and don’t realize how their words may touch on the raw. Children often leave out of school actions because they have no father/mother to take them. In my opinion there is a whole series of the additional problems the one-parent family is confronted with. The author says no words about financial problems of one-parent family, whereas these problems are very important because of lack of money and necessity to work for single parents. So, often one-parent families are characterized by overburdened adults who balance care for children and careers outside the home and cannot possibly provide the amount of supervision, nurturance, time, discipline and love that their children need. Children from single parent homes are deficiently prepared in school, are over stressed and are poorer students than children from two parent households. There is a lot of social problems in upbringing. Frequently single parent families rely on the older children to carry the extra burden in the family, fail to adequately teach children role modelling of both sexes. Girls growing up in homes with a custodial father will be more masculine than if they had grown up in a home with a custodial mother. There is a higher chance of a boy becoming more womanlike if he grows up in a home with a custodial mother.
3.1. Read the text. Try to keep in your memory as many words and phrases as you can to speak on a wedding ceremony and a wedding reception (pp. 187-188): Ø the best man; a person who give away the bride; the bridesmaid to arrange the bride’s veil; bridesmaid usually stands behind the bride and holds her bouquet; after the ceremony the couple go into the vestry to sign the register with their close relatives; to be showered with confetti; Ø the important parts of the reception are the cutting of the cake and the toast to the bride and groom; the bride cuts the cake with her husband’s hand upon hers; to leave for honeymoon.
3.3. Make up questions to ask your classmates about wedding customs in Britain: Ø When do the parents and close relatives of the bride and groom arrive at the wedding ceremony? Ø When does the bride arrive at the wedding ceremony? Ø Who may be a person who give away the bride? Ø What does the wedding service consist of? Ø I’d like to know where the couple go after the ceremony. Ø Is there a celebration after the wedding? Who is the official receiving line? Ø What a reception consists of? Ø Why is the cutting of the cake an important part of the celebration? Ø Could you give (me) an example of a toast to the bride and groom? Ø I wonder what goes on after the toasts.
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