Text A Melvin Burgess, Junk

When you are ready, join someone from the other group. Compare your texts and talk about your reactions to each one.

Do the questionnaire below and discuss your parenting style in pairs. Give the reasons.

Discuss what activities you would use to keep a 12-year-old, an 8-year-old and a 3-year-old occupied, and how you would ensure their safety.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

1) Listen to the dialogue between Duncan and Tom and tick the things that Tom doesn’t like about living with his parents.

1 His Mum is always saying his hair is too long or too short.

2 His Mum wants to borrow his CDs all the time.

3 His Dad is always saying his clothes are boring.

4 His Mum always wants to tale him shopping for clothes.

5 His Dad is always asking him to help with the cooking.

6 His Mum lets his sisters do what they want.

7 His Mum is always asking him to hoover and do the washing-up

8 His Dad is always laughing at him

9 His Dad is always asking him about his girlfriends.

10 His Dad is always giving him advice about his studies.

2) Discuss the things you don’t like about living with parents.

What is your parenting Style?

1) Your son asks you for a motorbike for his 18th birthday. You think they're dangerous.

a. You buy him the motorbike.

b. You offer to buy him a car on condition he gives up motorbikes.

c. You tell him to forget about it.

2) Your 13-year-old daughter wants to go to the movies alone with a 16-year-old boy.

a. You laugh and tell her to do her homework.

b. You tell her OK, as long as her older sister goes with her.

c. You let her go even though you don’t agree with it.

3) You are a lucky winner of the state lottery – 50 million dollars!

a. You give your kids everything you never had.

b. You make your kids struggle because you had to.

c. You give them just what they need and no more.

4) Your 17-year-old son is going out on his first real date.

a. You give him advice on safe sex.

b. You give him your credit card and say, “Have a great night!”

c. You ask him where he’s going and offer him a lift and some cash.

5) Everyone in your daughter's class is getting tattooed. Your daughter, 18, wants to join the club. You don't like the idea.

a. You tell her maybe, but you want to approve the design first.

b. You absolutely forbid it.

c. You reluctantly give her the money because you want her approval.

1) Work in groups. Group A, read Text A from a novel. Group B, read the Text B from a play. What do you think of the texts? Make some notes about the following.

What the characters are like.

What their relationship is like.

What the characters are trying to obtain.

Which of the characters you sympathize with most.

This extract shows relations between Gemma and her parents before she ran away from home. Gemma has just come in after spending a night away, against her parents’ wishes.

When I got home the next day, all hell broke loose. My dad was wagging up and down the room. “There must be limits… there must be rules!” Mum was sitting on the edge of the chair with no lips trying not to cry. “We all have to follow the rules, Gemma. When I forbid something I expect you to obey me….” I tried to smile at my mum but she looked the other way. Then he came out with this real beauty. Listen to this: “her reputation is a girl’s greatest asset. ” Stone Age!

“What about her GCEs?” I said. What about her ability to put her lipstick on properly?” My Mum tried to bring the conversation into the real world. “Darling, you’re too young” – she began. “She’ll have to learn!” “What are we going to do, Gemma? Your father’s right, there have to be rules. Surely you can see that?”

Text B Timberlake Wertenbaker, Three Birds Alighting on a field

Stephen’s garden. Gwen, 18, is weeding, vaguely. Stephen is mowing the lawn.

Gwen What I’ve thought is first I’d fly to New York and spend a few weeks, and then I’d go up to New England and watch their leaves, what’s it called, the Fall, thenI’d go to Canada and meet Robert and we’d take that train that goes across the mountains and – is this a weed, I’m pulling it out anyway – then we’d go to Alaska.

Stephen How are you going to live?

Gwen I thought you’d pay for some of it, and then I’d work, waitress or look after children in Canada, they have children there, don’t they? ( a silence) Can you pay for some of it? (a silence) I’m going to be a very limited person if I don’t see the world.

Stephen There are lots of things to see in England.

Gwen Oh, daddy, Devon, the Lake District, BORING – Sheep. Then Australia, I want to study the Aborigines, New Zealand, Antarctica…..

Stephen There are lots of sheep in New Zealand.

Gwen Yeah, but they’re not the same, they’ll look different, I’m sure, they’ll be more – well, they won’t be English sheep. And then I could find a world cruise and work as a chamber maid back to England. Or maybe I’ll stay in Australia, will you miss me? Or maybe I could stop in morocco and take a camel across the desert…

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