Writing

4. | IW. Read the paragraph about fostering children and express your attitude in written form.

Living with a foster family

Children are usually raised in their own families until they are mature* enough to live independently. Sometimes parents or relatives aren’t able to look after their children. In this case, the government will often take responsibility for them. The children may be looked after in orphanages or arranged adoption with families. Fostering means taking a child into your family for a period of time and caring for him or her as your own child. The government makes payments to the family to cover extra food, clothes and other necessities while the child is staying there.

Fostering allows children to experience a normal family life. Foster families are very carefully selected to be sure that the child will lead a happy life. Children who need the company of brothers and sisters will be placed in large families, whereas a child who requires a lot of individual attention will usually be placed in a small one. The foster child may make lifelong friendship with the foster family and continue to keep in touch long after he or she has grown up.

5. PW. Rearrange the sentences paying attention to the model and write.

Model: | I want to know how take care children of people. I want to know how people take care of children.

1. I’d like to know if watch children TV a lot.
2. Can you tell me what is your dislike?
3. Do you know if do teenagers face any problems?
4. I would like to know if teenage years bring luck to them.
5. I don’t know how can teens’ mates influence their lives.
6. Please tell me whether children usually in their own families are cared for.
7. Can you tell me that teenagers to be taken seriously are too young?
8. Do you know that is it important to speak today’s teens’ problems.
9. You can’t believe so much attention paid you teenagers to.
10. I want to know that teens’ parents let them do anything they want.
6. IW. Write a paragraph on: "Family's Influence on Teens' Success".
*mature - having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adul