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3. Everyone is different, and everyone's home differs, too. What are the rules in your house? a) Answer the questions and find out how easy-going your parents are.
Do thev let vou:
1) go into town on your own? 7) choose your own hairstyle?
2) go to discos? 8) decorate your own room?
3) go to bed at any time? 9) have a TV in your room?
4) come home at any time? 10) wear make-up?
5) get up at any time? 11) have pierced ears?
6) choose your own clothes? 12) dye your hair?
b) Write four more questions for the questionnaire and ask your partner: "Do your parents let you...?" "Are you allowed to...?"
c) Compare your results with another pairs. Which things do your parents let you do? Which things are you not allowed to do?
4. Read, then discuss the questions.
In the UK, different parents have different rules. Some parents let their
children go to discos when they are 12. Some don't let them do this until they are 16. Parents often have stricter rules for girls than for boys.
1. Is this the same in your country?
2. What do you think about it?
3. Should the rules for boys and girls be different or not?
5. a) Listen to a radio programme in which teenagers advise on relationships between parents and children.
b) Agree or disagree with the statements and discuss them.
1. Parents have no right to make their children do any work about the house.
2. Children should be responsible for doing some chores around the house since the age of 3—4.
3. Children should be paid by their parents for doing household chores.
4. Parents shouldn't make their children clean their rooms because most teenagers like their rooms being untidy.
5. There is no sense in children's doing chores as they do them badly all the same. Parents can do them much better.
6. At home, children learn to behave in their adult life.
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