topic-specific vocabulary 80 Children & the family
A. Complete these sentences with an appropriate word or expression from A, B or C. 1. Mr and Mrs Smith live at home with their two children. They are a typical example of a modern
____________________ family
A. extended B. nuclear C. compact 2. Mr and Mrs Popatlal live at home with their aged parents, children and grandchildren. They are a
typical example of a traditional ____________________ family
A. nuclear B. enlarged C. extended 3. Mrs Jones lives on her own and has to look after her two children. There are a lot of
____________________ families like hers
A. single-parent B. mother-only C. mono-parent 4. Some parents need to ____________________ their children more strictly
A. bring down B. bring about C. bring up 5. When I was a child, I had a very turbulent ____________________
A. upbringing B. upraising C. uplifting 6. Mrs Kelly is ____________________ and finds it difficult to look after her children on her own
A. divorced B. divided C. diverged 7. Many men believe that ____________________ is the responsibility of a woman
A. childhelp B. childcare C. childaid 8. ____________________ is a particularly difficult time of life for a child
A. convalescence B. adolescence C. convergence 9. A person’s behaviour can sometimes be traced back to his/her ____________________
A. creative years B. formulating years
