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АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family; whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one!”

Jane Howard

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2013

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INSIDE
NEWS IN BRIEF
Marriage No Longer A Key Goal for Girls,
Survey Suggests................................................	3
TEXTS FOR READING
End to Blinding Disease in Sight .......................	4
Men and Women:
Are We from Different Planets? ......................	54
Numbats and Wandoo Trees ...........................	56
METHODS OF TEACHING
Ролевая игра как методический прием
обучения иностранному языку
в 8–9-х классах ..............................................	5
Grammar Smile ................................................	8
Mistakes: To Correct or Not.............................	10
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
English Club ...................................................	12
"My Family Tree"............................................	14
CREATIVE WRITING
Family Matters ................................................	13
FOCUS ON LANGUAGE
Quotes from Literature.....................................	17
Family Idioms..................................................	17
LESSON PLANS
My Family and Me..........................................	19
Family............................................................	20
Я помогаю семье ............................................	21
Wedding Traditions
in Great Britain and Russia..............................	24
TOPICAL JOURNEY
Family............................................................	25
SCHOOL THEATRE
English Performances.......................................	41
Oliver Twist....................................................	42
GOOD NEWS
An Unusual Continent....................................	44
TESTS
Family............................................................	47
Five-Minute Tests ..........................................	47
PREPARING FOR EXAMS
Моя семья. Мир вокруг нас ..........................	49
DISCOVERING THE PAST
A Gay Family Feast – with Some Tears ............	51
Using Online Resources
and Studying American History.......................	52
YOUTH ENGLISH SECTION
Between the Continents:
American Reality with Russian Eyes ................	58

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ГАЗЕТА ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКОГО ДОМА: Первое сентября – Е.Бирюкова

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The Importance of

Family

Family brings out the best and worst in each of us. As we yield to and serve others we learn to love them and ourselves in the process. Many of us could never approach this form of selflessness in any other way. There is something about a mother or a father, a son or a daughter. There is a connection there that binds us and asks more of us then we are normally willing to give. When we are true to ourselves and follow our feelings and share openly and honestly with our loved ones we remember why family is important. And we are well rewarded for our sacrifice as it enables us to better appreciate who we are. On the other hand, when we yield to our selfishness and take our family members for granted or treat them poorly we lose our sense of self-worth and begin to despise those whom we once loved.

In our day-to-day interactions with our family we find out by our words and actions what kind of a person we are and what’s most important to us. Levin in Anna Karenina put his family first and found himself through faith in God focused by his suffering. In the story he explained, “my life now, my whole life, independent of anything that can happen to me ... every minute of it is no longer meaningless as it was before but has a positive meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.” This “positive meaning of goodness” that Tolstoy began to unravel in Levin’s life with the birth of his son can be acquired by each of us as we strengthen our own family relationships.

Our families hold the keys to understanding and appreciating ourselves. Who can relate better to us then our own brother or sister that shared so many experiences with us? Who can love us more selflessly then our own mother or father who sacrificed daily for so many years to raise us? The better we understand our parents and siblings the better we understand ourselves. This understanding is most completely achieved as we look to our family’s heritage with the help of our oldest living relatives. By discovering the customs, practices and traditions of our ancestors we uncover truths about our parents and ourselves. We find out how our grandparents treated our parents and so on from generation to generation. We discover the ambitions and fears of our forefathers along with their failures and triumphs. In the process of learning our family history we uncover our past, understand our present and shape our future.

Family is important because we are important and we need a group of loyal supporters. It matters what we think and feel and nobody cares more about us than the members of our families – at least, that’s how it should be and it starts with us. The better we are to our spouses, children, parents or siblings etc., the more they will want to be better to us. When we can count on each other and lean on each other then family works. If we waltz in on family when it’s good for us and run out when it’s bad for us then we’re not doing our part and will not find fulfillment there or elsewhere. Family is not only for our pleasure or entertainment but for all facets of life: for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do we part – we need a family and that family needs us. When we support our families we find ourselves supported.

NEWS IN BRIEF

MARRIAGE NO LONGER A KEY GOAL FOR GIRLS, SURVEY SUGGESTS

Girls are increasingly ambivalent about marriage while most boys see it as something to aspire to, suggests a poll for the Girl Guides.

Some 46% of girls agree marriage is the best form of relationship against 56% of boys, according to the study.

The Girls’ Attitudes Survey polled 600 boys and 1,200 girls aged 7 to 21.

Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said: “Girls still value family and marriage but, they clearly do not see this as the absolute definition of success.”

The survey indicates that in 2012 girls are more likely to de-

fine success as being confident and independent (56%) rather than being married (21%). The figures also suggest girls are generally positive about marriage but many are open minded about whether it is the best or only option.

More than two thirds (69%) of the girls agreed that some types of families were treated less fairly, such as single parents and same-sex parents or parents who were not married.

Most, (72%) disagreed with the suggestion that marriage was just another piece of paper and more than three quarters

(76%) disagreed with the idea that it was better not to get married at all – and almost half (46%) agreed that married couples divorced too quickly without trying to make it work.

The annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey has canvassed the opinions of a representative sample of girls and young women throughout the UK since 2009. The sample is not confined to

Guides.

Boys are included in this year’s survey for the first time as a point of comparison over gender issues. The survey reveals differing attitudes between the sexes on family and parenting issues and on how gender will affect other aspects of their lives.

Some 47% of the boys agreed that married couples made better parents than unmarried couples, compared with 32% of girls.

Most of the girls (85%) and boys (82%) agreed that parenting should be shared equally between parents.

In terms of employment, the girls had a more optimistic outlook than the boys. Only 19% of the girls believed their career prospects were worse than those of their mothers, while 38% of the boys said they expected to be less successful than their fathers – but one in five of the girls aged 11 to 21 thought women were treated less fairly by employers.

Two in three of the girls aged 11 to 21 (69%) believed education was the top freedom worth fighting for, as opposed to the right to vote – picked by only 9% as a cause.

The boys were more likely (78%) to say they were happy with their looks than the girls (68%) were, with one in three of the girls willing to consider cosmetic surgery.

Some 69% of the girls believed women were judged more on appearance than skills – a figure that rose to 75% among those in work.

Almost half of those aged between 11 and 21 felt that women who worked in the caring professions or focussed on motherhood were undervalued by society.

Ms Slocombe said: “Young women today have strong opinions, and some of those are very different from the boys’. They believe they have it better than their mothers’ generation and they prize their independence and education.

“They value confidence, so it is a great shame that despite this they feel they are judged on their looks and believe that society wouldn’t value them if they focus on motherhood or work in a caring profession.”

Caroline Cartmill, 15, a Guide, said: “Like many other girls, I value my education and the opportunities it presents to me.

“I believe successful careers, thriving families and a positive lifestyle are all feasible to women of today. Girls can have an independent outlook and recognise the alternatives to the traditional family structure.”

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

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January 2013

By Jessica Marola-Hugh