Imagine you are talking to foreign teenagers. What would you ask them about family traditions they have in their country?

Imagine you are invited to spend a couple of days in your pen-friend’s family in London. Ask him about their family holidays and traditions.

1. Do you have your own family traditions?

2. How do people in your country observe family traditions?

3. What is your favourite family tradition?

What questions would you ask your foreign friend about his family?

1. Is your family large?

2. What are your parents?

3. Are there any problems in your family?

4. What is your parents’ attitude to your friends?

5. Do you like to spend time together with your parents?

IV

What can you advise people who want to have a close and happy family?

What can you advise a person who wants to get on well with his/her parents and grandparents?

If you want to have close relations in your family you should spend your free time together. You may go to the cinema or to a café together. You should help your relatives with household chores. Try to be open, friendly, caring, understanding and loving. Try to forgive your relatives. Don’t hurt them. And, of course, say a lot of words of love.

3. Your friend is going to marry. What is your advice? (What advice would you give him/her?)

I think you should marry only if your partner really cares for you. It’s necessary to have much in common, to be positive and reliable. If you trust your partner and decide to be only with him you should marry.

V.

Divorce doesn’t seem to be extraordinary any more. Has family become an outdated form of relationships?

Is the family ever likely to disappear as an institute? Why (not)?

Family is a very important unit of our society. It’s an emotional center of people’s lives and a transmitter of culture. But today there are a lot of divorces. People don’t want to understand each other; they don’t want to solve problems together. For example, my friend’s parents divorced because of misunderstanding. Besides, they also had financial problems. But I’m sure that family will exist forever. We just need to make the right choice.

Why are there many one-parent families? How does the state help such families?

Today there are a lot of divorces. People don’t want to understand each other; they don’t want to solve problems together. For example, my friend’s parents divorced because of misunderstanding. Besides, they also had financial problems. But the state tries to help such families. Such families have some privileges and allowances (пособия). There are also laws protecting the interests of one-parent families.

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