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8. 
Work in groups of three or four. Decide which of the following statements yon agree with and which 
statements you disagree with. Discuss these with the other members of your group. Be ready to report your 
discussion to other groups: 
1. You should always ask your parents for permission to marry.
2. Children should only leave home after they are married.
3. You should always be ready to help a member of the family.
4. The members of a family should live in the same area so that it is easy for them to visit 
each other.
5. Old people should be encouraged to stay in old people's homes rather than with the 
family.
6. Family life is less important in the modern world than it was in the past. 
9. 
In many women's magazines there is a column on personal problems where a journalist running the 
column tries to answer the readers' letters. Below you'll find a woman's letter to Mr Know-It-All and a 
stereotyped reply to the letter, imitating the kind of "sensible", inoffensive advice offered hi such columns in 
women's magazines. 
a) 
Read the letter and the reply. The expressions in bold type show the ways English people give advice. Note them down: 
Dear Mr Know-It-All,
My father-in-law died about two years ago. Of course my mother-in-law was very 
upset and lonely, so my husband invited her to live with us. I don't know what to do — 
I'm going crazy. My mother-in-law and I don't get along very well. She's a wonderful 
person and is very helpful to me in many ways, but she thinks she's the boss in our home. 
If I try to discipline the children and tell them that they can't do something, they go 
running to their grandmother and she tells them they can do it! My husband and I have no 
privacy. What's worse is that she constantly criticizes me to my husband behind my back. 
I'm afraid this is going to break up our marriage. What should I do?
Jean

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Dear Jean,
Do you think you could bring yourself to ask mother-in-law to leave? (Maybe 
explaining that now the children are growing up they need more space.)
If you think that the old lady would then be too lonely don't you think it would be a 
good idea at least to ask somebody, probably some of your husband's relatives, to invite 
her for a couple of weeks. It would somehow release tension in your family and entertain 
the old lady. I realize it's much easier to give advice than really tackle the problem, but if