ROLES IN THE FAMILY - GESE 10

Vocabulary:
1 .Single parent family
2 .Nuclear family
3 .Step-children
4. Extended family
5 .In-laws
6. Adopted child
7. Newlyweds
8. To juggle
9. Paternity leave

a. A family that extends beyond the nuclear family, consisting of parents like father,
mother, and their children, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, all living in the
same household.
b. The family of your husband or wife
c. To do several things at the same time
d. A family group consisting of two parents (a man and a woman) and their children
e. A child who has legally become part of someone´s family
f. People who have just got married
g. A child of your spouse by a former marriage
h. A family with children headed by a parent who is widowed or divorced and not
remarried, or by a parent who has never married.
i. absence from work granted to a new father.

Discussion questions:
1. What´s a normal family?
2. Who do you consider to be family? Are friends part of your family?
3. If both parents work, how can they balance work family and personal time?
4. What are the childcare options? Why would women today want to stay at home
with their children?
5. Should fathers have the same rights as mothers concerning children?
6. Is there social pressure from people in your family to get married and have
children?
7. Are families matriarchal, patriarchal or something else?
8. Are blood ties more important than marriage ties?
9. How different from their parent´s lives do young people today expect their lives
to be?
10. Is it better to say that either mothers or fathers would generally make better
single parents?
11. Do you think grandparents should look after the children so that all mothers can
go to work?

Conversation starter:
In past decades, it has become common for childless couples in developed countries to
adopt children from developing countries.
In the past, many girls were married and pregnant by 14. Should teenage pregnancy be
seen as a problem?

Grammar - Complete the mixed conditionals with the verbs in brackets.

If + past perfect (had + past participle), present conditional (would + verb)
1. If we had bought a good map, we .................................. in the middle of
nowhere now. (not be)
2. I'd have my driving license if I ............................................ at the traffic lights.
(stop)
3. If you had sold your business, you ...................................... life now. (can enjoy)
4. I'd be a happy man if I ........................................ Marion when we were young.
(marry)
5. He'd study at university if he ...................................... the entrance exam. But he
didn't. (pass)

Language functions:

-- What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of traditional family
roles?--