Family dinner as an important part of family life.

A lot of people nowadays save family dinner for holidays and special occasions.Unfortunately, this attitude is becoming increasingly common.Many families have hectic schedules and rarely find themselves together at dinner time.Yet, by abandoning this daily routine, they’re ignoring its importance.

If the traditional family is eroding –and many people think it is one keyreason is the demise of family dinner time.In the past that’s where family members always connected.That’s where children learned most of their values.Sad to say, too many kids now come home to an empty house and find a note saying, “I won’t be home till later.There’s stuff in the fridge for supper.”

Dinner was a time for slowing down, telling news, airing problems, rehashing today and planning for tomorrow.

I’m not arguing for a return to the 50’s, when mum stayed at home and took care of the house.But families need to continue sharing dinner, in whatever way works best for them.

There are some tips to help people recapture or revitalize this endangered tradition:

1)Make the family dinner everyone’s responsibility.Working alongside one another encourages heart-to-heart talk.

2)Create a friendly atmosphere.

3)Avoid interruptions.Absolutely no one uses phone while eating.

4)Turn off the TV.Television is the primary dinner distraction.A poll showed that among families in the US with children under the age of 18 living at home, 42 per cent spend dinner time watching TV.Even worse, children who microwave their own dinners and eat in front of the television lose the sense that family time is more important that TV time.

5)Build family rituals.

I think having family dinner is very enjoyable, peacefull and having a lot of contemplative moments process.

11. Mary Grieve and Annie Light were both different from other women of the early 50-s.Talk about there differences and similarities.Whose choice in life do you approve of more?

Every woman has her own choice in life.

Some women want to be business ladies, others just prefer to be housewves.

I’d like to talk about a woman who reached the top and was a good role model for everyone.

She was the first female editor of a magazine in Britain. Her father believed in educating his daugter.Even though young women didn’t get good education at that time. She was obviously intelligent. She was not a quiet, submissive woman, she was very determined and prepared to be different.

At that time it was assumed that women of her class would spend a few years enjoying their freedom and then settle down and get married. But she didn’t do this. After graduating from university she got a job in journalism writing for a newspaper. She didn’t only worked for the newspaper but she also wrote articles and books later in her life. After many years of hard work and struggling in a male dominated profession she eventually reached the top and became the editor of the magazine.

She never married as her work was very important for her. Even being confined to a weelchair in her eighties she was still full of enthusiasm about life and knew what her friends and relatives were doing.

I consider this woman to be a good role model for everyone. Her example encourages us to think that we can do anything we want with our lives. Nothing is impossible.

12. Talk about the qualities a woman needed to reach the top in a male-dominated profession in the early 50-ies («My Great Aunt»).

I’d like to start with the fact that in Britain in the 1950’s a job and marriage did not mix. Men were born for jobs and careers and women for marriage and children.

Fathers sent their daughters to school where the girls learnt the skills preparing them for marriage.

After that they were assumed to spend a few years enjoying their freedom and then settle down and get married.

Very few women were at Universities or were allowed to enter. Most of them were quiet and submissive and didn’t even think about working in a male dominated society.

But some of them were prepared to be different to make carreer.They were obvieusly intelligent, рersistent and competent. They had personal courage, еnthusiasm and interest in life. Only this women after many years of hard work and struggling in male dominated profession eventually reached the top. They made men realise that appealing to women was important.

I think it was the beginning of a small revolution in our world.

Now nothing is impossible and a woman can do anything she wants with her life.

13. Talk about the recollections of a middle-aged person of his chilhood and his family. Compare them with your grandparents’ or relatives’ life in the country («My Life»).

Ewery one has his own recollections especially about his childhood and family.

I’d like to talk about recollections of a person who had very difficult chilhood.

He was the second child of a family of seven. His carliest recollection was that other children seemed to be better off than they were. One particular thing that he always remembered was that every Sunday morning his father brought him a comic for a half-penny plan and half –coloured ispite of the fact that he was out of work and had no money at all coming in.

His father was a painter and decorator. He could do almost everything: repair roofs, do a bit plastening but painting and paper-handing were his main work.

He remembered that winters were the hardest times for his family because there was hardly any work.

His mother used to go out charring. Sometimes she used to bring home little treasures: a basin of dripping or a little bit of butter. But his mother hated charity because she hated accepting anything. They even had no unemployment money, anything they got was charity.

He also remembered his mother went down to the council to try and get more for them when they had only one pair of shoes and they all needed mending.

When they were extra hard up they only had one room or two rooms in somebody else’s house. They never had a house to themselves, because at that time not many people could afford a house to themselves.

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