The qualities we prize in our children - раздел Философия, Family Lifestyle and Socializing A Recent International Study Has Shown Some Surprising And Apparently Contrad...
A recent international study has shown some surprising and apparently contradictory results on the question of the priorities parents around the world have when raising their children. While the survey showed that some virtues are universally prized, interesting regional and national trends emerge when parents are asked to rate the importance of various qualities they wish to instil in their children.
Parents around the world seem to agree that good manners, a sense of responsibility and respect for others are important qualities to teach their children. But while West Europeans give all three qualities more or less equal importance, East Europeans and North Americans rate a sense of responsibility as by far the most important, and relegate respect for others to fourth place.
Interestingly, a sense of imagination ranked the lowest priority worldwide, although West Europeans gave the quality of flexible thinking twice the importance any other group did. The Italians stress the virtue of cultivating their youngsters' imagination more than most others surveyed, with the exception of Switzerland. The supposedly staid Swiss prize imaginative youth.
Etiquette-minded Belgians, Spaniards and Greeks placed the highest premium on politeness, while the Danes and Swedes put good manners lowest on the list. The newly-capitalist Eastern bloc countries also rated good manners as relatively unimportant, perhaps because they are being confronted with commercial competi- 23 tion for the first time. Together with the Swiss and the Turks, on the other hand, they prized the ability to communicate with others.
The virtues of tolerance and respect for others were most highly regarded in Scandinavia, France, Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Spain. This was not the case in Greece and the former Eastern bloc nations, which rated these as being of lesser importance.
Germans, Austrians and Swedes esteem personal independence, but the industrious French hold the quality of conscientiousness at work more dear than any other European nationals. The responses . in the industrialized nations of Sweden and Britain showed, perhaps bewilderingly, that nationals of those countries gave little importance to conscientiousness at work.
Polite Belgians answered that for them, obedience is among their paramount values; this sentiment is shared to a lesser degree by the British, Greeks and Irish. The Italians, according to their questionnaires, ranked this very low.
When rearing their children, the Greeks, Turks and Irish are alone in their emphasis on instilling strong religious beliefs.
One of the primary difficulties the researchers faced was translating the questions as perfectly as possible in order not to distort the result. "Imagination", for example, can be translated into Dutch as "conceited-ness"; perhaps this explains why the Dutch appeared to give imagination a low priority.
Also, some qualities are so ingrained in certain cultures that they are taken for granted, while others are given great emphasis because they are felt to be lacking in a particular society.
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Family Lifestyle and Socializing
Учебное пособие
по общему английскому языку
для студентов I курса
(квалификация бакалавр)
Севастополь
УДК 811.111 (075.32)
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Concept of Family
Ø The Concept of “Family”
Ø Vocabulary: Family members
Ø Reading: Different Types of Families
Ø Phrase
Chapter 1
THE CONCEPT OF “FAMILY”
Task 1. Look at this unit key word“F – A – M – I – L – Y”.Use the initial letters of the given word to
Task 7. Mingling Activity
Think and write down six questions you would like to ask your groupmates about their Family Life. Walk around the class and ask as many people in your group as possible to give you their answers
Reading
Task 9.Read the article about “Different Family types” existing nowadays. Find the answers to the following question in the given text:
1) What springs into
Phrases and Idioms for Relationships
Task 12. Match the example sentences from the column A containing an idiom or phrase for describing relationship with their corresponding meaning from th
Marriage and Wedding Ceremony
A) Work in small groups. Brainstorm words for this timeline table. Use dictionaries if necessary.
Preparations for wedding
At the wedding
English Wedding traditions
Wedding ceremonies in the UK have some wonderful traditions.
First of all, you will definitely notice a lot of flowers. Wedding flowers are scattered by a small girl preceding the English
SETTING UP YOUR FAMILY FINANCIAL STABILITY
Task 1. Job Game.
Stand In small circles. The person, who starts, names a job and the workplace for that job, e.g. A pilot-plane, then addresses or
MONEY QUIZ
Task 10.Study Appendix(Chapter 2, Key vocabulary “Money terms”) and complete the following task.Give the names for the defined money expressions.
Money proverbs and idioms
Task 15.Join two halves of the proverbs or idioms below.
1. Better an empty purse
a) of all evil
2. A
Parents as Role Models
Parents and other family members are the most significant models for young children. Society often blames the family for the problems of their individual members but social problems such as economi
Family Life Proverbs and phrases
Task 8.Match the two halves of the proverbs about Family Life. Can you explain their meaning? Is there any equivalent in your native language?
Task 2.
A) Look at the following table. Tick the frequency of your spare time activities you are engaged in together with your family members.
B)Work with a partner. Ask him / her quest
Sharing Family Traditions
1. Every family has unique and treasured family traditions and stories. The oldest members of extended families are often the keepers of these riches and pass them from generation to generation. Th
Task 9. Idioms to do with emotions.
Below are thirty-two idioms, each of which can be associated with one of the headings in the task. Translate and place each idiom under the appropriate heading- four under each.
Task 11. Writing.
A) Read the following part of an essay about family traditions. Answer the following questions:
· What does the person write about?
· Why does she cherish this tradition?
Holidays Quiz
Part 1. Which day do you associate the following items with? Match the celebration attributes from column A with the corresponding Holiday from column B.
A
Reading
Task 4.
A) Read the following text about the way to celebrate Christmas.
B) Complete each column in the following table with the words and usefu
Task 5.
A) Read the following extract about Christmas celebrating traditions in Ukraine. Choose the best option.
B) Take any word from the text referring to the names of dishes or produc
Idioms to do with food
Task 7.Look through the following idioms to do with food. Try to explain their meaning. Give the equivalent in your language.
1.To be in a
Christmas cards
A) Read and translate a list of things and tips you can write in your Christmas cards.
B) Try to think of an additional example for each one.
Additional Reading
Task 1.Read the article about different family types existing nowadays. Decide whether the following statements are Trueor False:
Additional Family Types Classification
Today nearly half of all families do not meet the definition of nuclear family. We have stepfamilies; single-parent families; families headed by two unmarried partners, either of the opposite sex o
Chapter 2.
Key vocabulary “Money terms”
Read, transcribe and translate or find the meaning of the following words and expressions. Learn them by heart.
Huge discounts in New Year sale
Shoppers around the world are snapping up bargains in post-Christmas sales. Stores are trying to lure bargain hunters with discounts of up to 75 per cent. The run-up to Christmas is usually the bes
Chapter 3.
Key Vocabulary “Personality Traits or Features of Character”
Read, transcribe and translate or find the meaning of the following words and expressions. Learn them by he
How to become a perfect role model for your child
Read the text. Choose the correct alternative.
While television and other media have made it a practice to impose well-known celebrities as positive 1. a) role models; b) fe
Chapter 4.
Read, transcribe and translate or find the meaning of the following words and expressions. Learn them by heart.
Leisure time activity
Chapter 5.
Key Vocabulary “Celebrations”
Read and translate the following words and phrases.
holiday spirit
Easter
Resource bank
1. Stuart Redman & Ruth Gairns. Test Your English Vocabulary in Use (pre-intermediate & intermediate). Cambridge University Press.
2. Peter Watcyn-Jones & Olivia Johnston. Test
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