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Family: Parents and Children

Частное Образовательное Учреждение

Институт Экономики, Управления и Права

Нижнекамский Филиал (г. Казань)

Контрольная работа

По английскому языку для студентов

Курса психологического факультета

Заочного отделения

Проверил: Старший преподаватель

Кафедры иностранных языков

Журавлева Е. Н.

Г. Нижнекамск

Для того чтобы правильно выполнить контрольную работу, необходимо изучить следующие разделы курса английского языка:

1) множественное число существительных;

2) различные типы вопросов;

3) порядок слов в английском предложении;

4) видовременные формы глаголов группы Continuous (Active Voice);

5) Пассивный залог (Passive Voice).

 

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Family: Parents and Children

(after Karen Hewitt)

The number of single children in Russia astonishes mane British visitors, especially the older ones. «Where are the brothers and sisters? » they ask. Isn’t that child in danger of being spoiled? Being spoiled is a very British concept. Not every mother is suspicious of too much indulgence but it is certainly often mentioned as a worry.

Once the children are at school, most debates are essentially about rules and freedom. Both are necessary, but parents and children are in constant conflict about how much freedom, how many rules.

British parents take money seriously. Children from the age of 5 or 6 are normally given weekly «pocket money» - a few pence at first, increasing as they get older. Pocket money is often related to responsibilities about the house.

Teenage children are often given a clothing allowance (they must buy their own clothes) and budget accordingly. It they spend too much on a smart jacket or a fashionable dress, they will have no money for shoes. They are being taught «the value of money». Children from the age of 13 often take part-time jobs to pay for records, electronic gadgets and so forth.

They are not of course your problem. But this is a difference between Britain and Russian which is most often misunderstood b young Russian citizens. Imitating the rich West does not mean owning videos and fashionable clothes. In a market economy basically there is no «blat». There is money. Or no money.

What about moral attitudes? How do parents in Britain teach their children the difference between «right and wrong»? If you talk to parents of all social groups you will find there is general agreement that children should be taught to be kind, to be honest and to be fair; and that it is wrong to be cruel, to steal or to destroy the happiness of other people.

The other moral appeal to the British child is to «be fair». Basic justice should be done. If there are three apples and three children, then the apples should be divided. Simply enough, and world-wide perhaps. But many advantages are divided on this basis.

In other western countries, different values are stressed. The Americans like to teach their children that everyone has the right to health, wealth, happiness, education, goods, etc. So it is your duty to insist on your rights and not to let other people take them away. These values are not really ours. Because most of us get worried it seems that people aren’t somehow trying to make things more fair.

It is easy to find Americans, for example, who are absolutely certain that they know what is right because it is the world of God or an inalienable part of the American constitution. But the English are hesitant, muddled, but content to live with the muddle, trying to do the right thing but persuaded that a different approach might be all right if it sounded fair.





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