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b) Make up a dialogue with your partner similar to the one on Halloween. Use conversational formulas of 
correcting people, agreement and disagreement.


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9. Talking points. Group work. 
a) Split into small buzz groups of 3-4 and get ready to represent a certain country's national customs and 
traditions at an international conference or festival. 
b) Do some library research prior to the discussion. 
c) Elect the chairperson to conduct and run the conference. 
d) Delegate a speaker from a buzz group to take part in making a talk and a panel discussion. 
Problems for Discussion 
1. The advantages and problems of multinational states for the development of national 
traditions.
2. The continuity of folk tradition in modern world (pros and cons). 
10. Do some library research and write a composition on the problem given below: 
Family traditions in the urban communities and in the country. 
Unit Eight 
TEXT 
 
From: THURSDAY EVENING 
By Ch. Morley 
Christopher Morley (1890-1957), an American author, received unusual recognition early in his 
career. Among his widely known novels are Kitty Foyle and The Trojan Horse. In his popular short play 
Thursday Evening, Christopher Morley opposes the common mother-in-law stereotype with two very 
likable and charming women.
The scene is set in the small kitchen of the modest suburban home of Mr and Mrs Gordon Johns. A 
meal has recently been cooked, as is shown by a general confusion of pots and pans and dishcloths.
Laura, who is an attractive little woman aged about twenty-three, is in that slightly tense condition of a 
young hostess who has had a long and


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trying day with house and baby, and has also cooked and served a dinner for four as both the grandmothers are 
visiting. 
Both husband and wife are washing up. They are in good humour at first but every time one or the other 
refers to his or her mother the atmosphere becomes tense. Gordon, more than his wife Laura, takes pains to 
avoid a quarrel and changes the subject whenever he is aware of danger.
While scraping portions of food off the soiled plates Gordon picks out several large pieces of meat, lettuce, 
butter, etc., which he puts on one plate at one side. Later his wife sees the plate of odds and ends and scrapes 
its contents into the garbage pail.
Among other things Gordon says that he's a little worried about his mother as she hardly ate any of her 
salad. This time, it is Laura who tries honourably to avert the gathering storm by mentioning that Junior
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drank 
out of a cup the first time. But even this seemingly encouraging event puts the two on the break of a quarrel. 
Gordon feels slighted because the cup used was the one Laura's mother had used, not his mother's.
Though he's been trying to tide over the mutually realized danger point, when Gordon begins hunting for 
the plate with "a lot of perfectly good stuff" he saved, a fierce quarrel breaks out. 
Laura: Well, if you think I'm going to keep a lot of half-eaten salad your mother picked
over — 
Gordon (seizes garbage pail, lifts it up to the sink and begins to explore its contents. His 
fuse also is rapidly shortening): My Lord, it's no wonder we never have any money to spend 
if we chuck half of it away in waste. (Picking out various selections.) Waste! Look at that 
piece of cheese, and those potatoes. You could take those things, and some of this meat, and 
make a nice economical hash for lunch — 

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