Text 1. BRITISH FAMILY

A “typical” British family used to consist of mother, father and two children, but (1)___________ there have been many changes in family life. Some of there have been caused by new laws and others are the result of changes in society. For example, since the law made it easier to get a divorce, the number of divorces has increased. In fact one marriage (2)__________ now ends in divorce. This means that there are a lot of one-parent families. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmarried couples and single parents.

Another change has been caused by the faсt that people are living longer nowadays, and many old people live alone following the death of their partners. As a result of these changes in the pattern of people’s lives, there are many households which consist of only one person or (3)__________.

You might think that marriage and the family are not so popular as they once were. However, the majority of divorced people marry again, and they sometimes take responsibility for a second family.

Members of a family – grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – keep in touch, but they see less of each other than they used to. This is because people often move away from their home town to work, and so the family becomes scattered. Christmas is the traditional season for reunions. Although the family group is smaller nowadays (4)____________, relatives often travel many miles in order to spend the holiday together.

In general, each generation is keen to become independent (5)_________ in establishing its own family unit, and this fact can lead to social as well as geographical differences within the larger family group.

1. Вставьте в пропуски (1-5) буквы (a-e), соответствующие данным ниже фразам:

a) than it used to be;

b) in every three;

c) of parents;

d) in resent years;

e) one adult and children.

2. Отметьте данные ниже предложения как истинные (T) или ложные (F):

1. Some of the changes in British family life are the result of new laws. ¨

2. Two marriages in three end in divorce. ¨

3. People are not living longer. ¨

4. Members of the family see each other more often. ¨

5. Relatives often spend Christmas together. ¨

6. Parents want to be independent of their children. ¨

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