Учебное пособие для студентов 1 курса направлений

Vocabulary:
live-in lover/boyfriend etc – someone who lives with their sexual partner but is not married to them
counterpart – someone or something that has the same job or purpose as someone or something else in a different place (Belgian officials are discussing this with their French counterparts.)
census – an official process of counting a country’s population and finding out about the people
gender – the fact of being male or female (There may be gender differences in attitudes to paid work.)
significant other – your husband, wife, girlfriend, or boyfriend
overall – generally (Overall, prices are still rising.)
rake something in – [phrasal verb] to earn a lot of money without trying very hard (Lou’s been raking in the dollars since he opened his business.) rake – грабли
household – all the people who live together in one house (A growing number of households have at least one computer.)
leverage – influence that you can use to make people do what you want (diplomatic leverage by the US)
divvy something up – [phrasal verb] to share something between several people (We can divvy up the profits between us.)
chore – a small job that you have to do regularly, especially work that you do to keep a house clean (everyday chores like shopping and housework)
egalitarian – based on the belief that everyone is equal and should have equal rights
trickle – if people, vehicles, goods etc trickle somewhere, they move there slowly in small groups or amounts (The first few fans started to trickle into the stadium.)

SUPPLEMENTARY READER

Text 1 Read and translate the text. Remember as many details as you can. Reproduce the texts.
Should parents ever worry about Minecraft?

Jolyon Jenkins and his son Joe


In the space of a few years, the computer game Minecraft has come to dominate the spare hours of millions of children, and has even entered the classroom. But is this an entirely good thing, asks Jolyon Jenkins.
If I want to irritate my 13-year-old son, Joe, I refer to Minecraft as "digital Lego". He grew out of Lego a long time ago.
But that's what Minecraft is - a computer game in which you build things using cubic blocks. But it's Lego on steroids. You never run out of blocks and they never topple over. You can walk among your own creations, and play online with other people who are in the same world.
Sometimes, monsters come out after dark to try to kill you, which is never pleasant, but compared with games like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty, Minecraft is innocent, peaceful, and pretty wholesome.
So why does it drive so many parents to distraction?
"It's all consuming," says Gabrielle Wacker, of her 11-year-old son Arthur. "It's become a way of life. He would be on it before school given the chance. I've had to hide the device in the morning."
Her biggest worry, she says, is that it reduces his interest in the real world. "He doesn't do any clubs any more. At weekends, one of the first things he says when he gets up in the morning is, 'We're not going anywhere, are we?' because clearly he wants to be at home where he has got access to the devices."

A castle encountered on Joe's adventures in Minecraft
Parenting websites are full of such stories. If not actually playing Minecraft, parents report that their children watch videos of other people playing it.
The statistics are astounding - one group of Minecraft gamers, Yogscast, based in Bristol, is watched for 37 million minutes every day, and they are not the biggest.
The stars of Minecraft, like "Stampy Longnose" are to this generation of children what John Noakes was to mine, except Blue Peter was only on twice a week, whereas Stampy is viewable all day, every day, a permanent uninvited guest in some households.