Vocabulary work.

A. Debbie and Penny use several colloquial expressions. Choose the best explanation for the examples below:

1 I had enough on my plate (Debbie)

A enough things to deal with В enough food to eat С enough work to do

2 without having Sarah tagging along (Debbie)

A watching В waiting С following

3 she shrugged us off (Debbie)

A behaved violently towards us В made us angry С treated us as unimportant

4 she wouldn’t nag (Debbie)

A understand В complain С approve

5 I haven’t been mollycoddled (Penny)

A protected too much В given too many toys C allowed too much freedom

6 she switches off (Penny)

A stops watching television В stops paying attention

C stops speaking on the telephone

B. Find words or phrases in the section about Peter Swift which mean the same as:

1. lots

2. cut (with a machine)

3. find time for doing something

4. spoken angrily to

5. exchange

Discussion. Discuss these questions in pairs. Share your ideas with the rest of the class.

1. Did your mother work when you were a child?

2. What kind of relationships did you have? Were they similar to the speakers in the texts?

3. Would you like your children to have a working mother or a stay-at-home mother? Why?

4. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of families where mothers go to work? Where mothers stay at home?

Read the first text again and identify the family problems that Debbie describes.

5.

A. Read the words and match the halves of the table (A and B) making word-combinations concerning family problems. Then find their Russian equivalent in column C.

A	B	C
1. generation	running home and growing children	проблема отцов и детей
2. overprotected	problems	мать/отец-одиночка
3. combining work with	gap	финансовые проблемы
4. financial	rivalry	работающая мать
5. early	parents	соперничество между братьями/сестрами
6. working	marriages (before making a career)	совмещать работу с ведением хозяйства и воспитанием детей
7. the only	children	слишком опекаемые дети
8. single/lone -	child	единственный ребенок в семье
9. divorced	mothers	ранние браки
10. sibling	parent	разведённые родители

B. Which are the biggest problems in your country?

C. Match these words and expressions to the problems above:

break up

first marriage

get divorced

half-sister

lack of time

misunderstanding

mollycoddled

neglect

separate

single parent

stepfather

stepmother

to argue

to compete

to fall in love

to need money

to quarrel

to remarry

to save money

to split up

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