52. Develop the situation / idea.

1. There is a close relationship between family life and emotional well-being... 2. It’s important to let teenagers and young adults develop a sense of their own identity... 3. Self-destructive behaviours let a person’s life go down the drain... 4. There comes a moment in one’s life when one has to reorder their priorities... 5. When a relationship falls apart, the people may suffer from an identity crisis. 6. Being at peace with yourself and your relatives fosters... 7. Some futurologists predict that in the future there will be no feeling of community, intimacy or love... 8. In the age of globalization, more and more people are trying to pursue status at the expense of the most precious things...

53. Express your opinion and support it using the vocabulary of the unit.

Who do you side with?

• A Renaissance poet, John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”

• In the novel About a Boy, a modern writer, Nick Hornby, portrays Will Freeman, a wealthy single, who says: “Every man is an island.”

54. Comment on the following statements:

• The rights of the individual are perhaps the most important rights in a free society.

• Society has a right to expect people to obey the law.

• Greed is often thought to be a product of the consumer society.

• Personal morality is a matter for the individual, and society should not expect everyone to have the same values.

Home activities (8)

51. Complete the sentences with the proper forms of the Verb. 

Professor Warnock enjoys challenges. For some time she has been teaching at Oxford and working in London. Now she is about to take a new job at Cambridge. She likes the idea of ________________ (1 – to have) a new job in the year she is 60. She hates ______________ (2 – not/to have) something on to go. She prefers _____________ (3 – to ask/to do) things rather than ______________ (4 – to think) them up for herself, but she would hate ________________ (5 – to get up) in the morning and feel there was no purpose to her life. Normally she gets up at 7.30. She doesn’t like ____________ (6 – to stay) in bed much. It is no treat _______________ (7 – to tell) she needn’t _______________ (8 – to get up) until later. She likes _______________ (9 – to go) through her post first thing. If she doesn’t read her letters over breakfast she tends _______________ (10 – to lose) them. So she tries ________________ (11 – to have) a systematic routine first thing.

She still divides her time between London and Oxford. On an Oxford day she starts _______________ (12 – to teach) at nine. She has ________________ (13 – to fit) her teaching into two days so the earlier she can persuade anyone ________________ (14 – to come) the better. She remembers _________________ (15 – to think) nine o’clock was outrageously early for a tutorial when she was a student, and some of her students do too. But on the whole they are quite good.