My Dad is a civil servant and works in central London. Mum is a teacher and works in Croydon, a town on the outskirts of London

Learn the new words concerning human qualities and appearance:
Nouns: beauty intelligence honesty
humour seriousness success
generosity kindness energy
Adjectives: athletic intellectual romantic protective
Artistic peaceful ambitious successful
Shy strong reliable brave
Talented optimistic witty honest
Sincere organized helpful confident

Self-assured selfish self-centred

DATING. Read and find out.
In the United States dating starts early. In some families thirteen- and fourteen-year-old boys and girls go out on dates. When young teenagers go on dates they often go with a group, and usually the group has a chaperon. But older teenagers usually do not have a chaperon on their dates.
When a third person arranges a date between two strangers, it is a blind date. Some people send information about themselves to a computer dating bureau, which matches them with blind dates.
In the past it was customary for a boy to pay for a date. Sometimes today a girl pays for herself. This is called going dutch. Frequently a boy asks a girl for a date, but more and more often girls are asking boys for dates.
Please choose someone you’d like to date.

1. 
   The qualities I would like in a date are… .
   
2. 
   I feel most comfortable with people who are… .
   
3. 
   I like people whose favorite activities are…(movies, TV, sports, dancing, music, reading, politics, talking, cooking, painting.)
   
4. 
   I like people who are… .5. I prefer to date someone who is my age(slightly older, slightly younger, much older, much younger).
   

QUESTIONS TO THE TOPIC MY FAMILY.


Having answered these questions you’ll get your own topic “My Family”.

1. 
   What’s your name? How old are you? What grade are you in?
   
2. 
   Do you have a big family?
   
3. 
   What members of the family do you have? Do you live together?
   

members= people
younger(elder)
are divorced

4. 
   How many children are there in your family? Who is the youngest?
   
5. 
   Do other children try to boss the youngest one around? Is it OK? Would you like to be the youngest? The eldest?
   
6. 
   Do you think there are some advantages or disadvantages in being the youngest or the eldest? What are they?
   
7. 
   What are your brothers’ and sisters’ names? What are they doing? (What do they do? Are they married?) How old are they?
   
8. 
   What are your mother’s and father’s names? How old are they? How do they look like? Who do you look like? Who do you take after?
   
9. 
   What do your father and mother do? (What are they?) Are they busy with their work?
   

Do they spend much time with you?
10. How do you get on with your parents? - I’m on the best terms with…

11. 
    Don’t you think that grown-ups are not always right (fair)?
    
12. 
    Do your parents listen to what you say? Do they try to understand you?
    
13. 
    Do you respect your parents? Why?
    

-can do many things; respect my interests; don’t think they are always right; try to be fair; care about my needs

11. 
    Do you wish you could spend more time together?
    
12. 
    What do you and your parents like to do together? (to go hiking, to walk around the town, to go out, to go to see friends, to cook the meals, to have dinners, to clean the rooms)
    
13. 
    Do you have any family traditions?
    
14. 
    Do you have conflicts with your parents? Do you often quarrel with them? Are they strict with you?
    
    • 
      don’t try to understand me;
      
    • 
      do not trust me;
      
    • 
      treat me like a baby.
      
15. 
    What don’t your parents like at your behaviour?
    
    • 
      when I come home late;
      
    • 
      when my friends come to see me;
      
    • 
      when I listen to…music (rock-, loud)
      
    • 
      when I get low grades;
      
    • 
      when I stay up late in the evening.
      
16. 
    Would you like your parents to…?
    
    • 
      try to understand you;
      
    • 
      give you more freedom and independence;
      
    • 
      let you have your own likes and dislikes
      
    • 
      treat you with respect.
      
17. 
    Why don’t grown-ups and children understand each other?
    
    • 
      belong to different generations;
      
    • 
      have different interests;
      
    • 
      forget what they were like when they were children.