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Unit 5. Raising Children
1. What traits of character would you name as typical for a normal 
happy child?
2. Why do children put themselves in danger surfing the net behind 
their parents’ backs?
3. How would you describe a good parent?
4. How do you understand the term ‘permissive’ parents?
5. What happens when parents make a child’s wishes top priority? 
Is this a demonstration of love?
6. Comment on the phrase:” Don’t expect miracles from your 
children”.
7. Why is it so difficult nowadays for teachers to deal with par-
ents?
8. What tips can be given to adults parenting teenagers?
9. Why do people immigrate to different countries? Give eco-
nomic, political, personal reasons.
10. Living in another language means growing another self. Com-
ment on the phrase.
11. What do people very often miss about their native coun-
tries?
12. Speak about some problems of young immigrants.
Unit 6. Mass Media
1. Speak about electronic and print media.
2. Tabloids and broadsheets: two different ways of presenting the 
news.
3. News fulfill different functions. What are they? Give examples 
using the stories that are in the news at the moment.
4. Speak about four different ways you can find the news. Name 
the advantages and disadvantages of each way.
5. TV commercials. Give the examples of some commercials which 
you really like or hate.

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6. Crime and violence on TV.
7. Innovations in the field of electronic media.
8. Recollect a TV guide of your favourite TV channel. Speak about 
the programmes included in it.
9. The right to privacy and Peeping Tom journalism.
10. Celebrities and mass media.
11. The problem of censorship of the press and TV.
12. TV news bulletin. Comment on the news items included in it.
13. Comment on the saying:” No News is Good News”.
14. Talk for several minutes about a well-known British (American) 
newspaper.
15. Children and TV.
16. What is news? What news is newsworthy?
17. Positive and negative effects of the Internet.
18. How has the Internet changed our life?
19. How can a person’s right to privacy be violated when a person 
uses the Internet.