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7. Work in groups of three or four. Decide which of the following statements you agree or disagree with. 
Discuss these with the other members of your group. Be ready to report your discussion to other groups: 
1. There's never a problem child, there are only problem parents. 2. Anyone who expects 
quick results in child upbringing is an incurable optimist. 3. Under dictatorial control 
adolescents work submissively, show little initiative. 4. Happiness may be defined as the 
state of minimal repression. 5. Healthy children do not fear the future, they anticipate it 
gladly. 6. The adults who fear that youth will be corrupted by freedom are those who are 
corrupt themselves. 
8. The text below is an extract from a TV discussion on a burning problem of today "Horror Firms and 
Children" — a matter of great concern to many people in the world: 
Guests participating in the discussion use expressions that convey respect to one another, 
and though at times they completely disagree with something they remain tactful and do 
not let the discussion degenerate into quarrelling. 
Read the text. The expressions in bold type show how people react to opinion. Note them down: 
TV Host: What were you saying?
Woman: I was saying that in my view, and I'd like to emphasize it, kids today got used 
to all kinds of violence. We scared much easier in my daysr
Teacher: Exactly. My personal opinion is that it goes even further than that. The 
children can take so much more violence now and unfortunately not even think about it.
Man: True. They even laugh at scenes which horrified us.
Psychiatrist: Don't you think that documentaries about war and hostilities showing 
awful violence may have something to do with that?
Film director: I'm not sure you are right about it! I would find it difficult to link 
violence to documentaries.

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Art critic: As for me, I can certainly give the idea my backing. The young people are 
easily affected by violence on screen.
Woman: You have my whole support! Cartoons and TV films have become so much 
worse. There is an awful lot of violence and horror everywhere.
TV Host: The question is whether we have a community in Hollywood which goes 
for a young audience with their horror films in a gross and socially harmful way.
Art critic: I must say I can see no reason to oppose.
Psychiatrist: But Walt Disney had a lot of horror in his films which also scared kids, 
things like kids turned into donkeys in "Pinnoccio".
Woman: Coming from you... I can't believe it! As far as I am able to judge 
"Pinnoccio" bears no relation to horror films.
Teacher: You are quite right! Disney has done so much good for the children!
TV Host: Do we have in this greedy arena of film-making to rely too much on effect, 
illusion, technology which can make horrors beyond imagination, such as visualization of 
a man blown up, a man decapitated in front of your eyes?
Film director: I am inclined to think that kids are looking for fantasies, aren't they? 
And we are giving them to kids. All the same they are having horror in their minds.
Man: Here I differ with you! The visualization of horror deadens children's souls. 
That's what Is so dangerous about it! 
TV Host: What kind of grown-ups our kids are going to be if today they are already 
used to all kinds of film horrors and are not terrified by the awful sights and especially 
human suffering!