II. Insert the right preposition.

1. He reluctantly gave … … the pressure.

2. He dotes … his children.

3. When the husband came home late again, she decided to have it … with him immediately.

4. Have you made it … with your sister yet?

5. Michael is devoted … his family.

6. I yielded … temptation and had a chocolate bar.

7. Sometimes we have to make concessions … each other to stop quarrelling.

UNIT 15. ATTITUDES LEADING TO AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE.

Glossary:

· Ill-bread -rude or behaving badly, especially because your parents did not teach you to behave well.

· Self-assured –calm and confident about what you are doing. Noun self-assurance.

· Unforgiving(disapproving)–someone who is unforgiving does not forgive people easily. Opp. forgiving.

· Crude –offensive or rude, especially in a sexual way.

· Submissive –always willing to obey someone even if they are unkind to you. Noun submissiveness.

· Peevish –easily annoyed by small and unimportant things; bad-tempered. Noun peevishness.

· Quarrelsome –someone who is quarrelsome seems to like quarrelling. Noun quarrelsomeness.

· Unscrupulous –behaving in an unfair or dishonest way. Noun unscrupulousness.

· Treacherous['tretﻜәrəs]–someone who is treacherous cannot be trusted because they are disloyal and secretly intend to harm you. Noun treachery.

· To cheat on sb. –to be unfaithful to your husband, wife, by secretly having romantic relations with someone else.

· Aversion(to)–a strong dislike of someone or something.

· To fret(about/over) – to feel worried about small or unimportant things, or to make someone feel like this.

· To sulk –to show that you are annoyed about something by being silent and having an unhappy expression on your face.

· To turn into a tyrant['taiәrənt] – to become someone who has power over other people, and uses it cruelly or unfairly. Noun tyranny ['tirәni].

· To be under sb’s thumb (=to bring sb. to one’s heel=to forcesomeone to behave in the way that you want them to) –to be strongly influenced by someone that they control you completely.

· To withdraw into –to become quieter, less friendly, and more concerned about your own thoughts.

· To elope –to leave your home secretly in order to get married. Noun elopement.

· To sue for divorce –to make a legal claim in order to end a marriage.

· To fight for the (child’s) custody(of)–to fight for the right to take care of a child, especially when the child’s parents are separating from each other.

· To pay alimony –to pay money that a court orderssomeone to pay regularly to their former wife or husband after their marriage has ended.

I. Replace the underlined words with a word that has a similar meaning.

1.His offensive jokes were insulting.

2. Michael was a cunning and dishonest politician.

3. Nick was totally under his wife’s thumb.

4. The kids were easily annoyed after so long in the car.

5. Despite his strong dislike to publicity, Arnold was persuaded to talk to the press.

6. Martin expects his wife to be meek and willing to obey.

7. I think Winnie’s been unfaithful to him, but he can’t prove it.

II. Fill in the gaps using the correct form of the words in brackets.

1. They designed a … plot to overthrow the leader. (treachery)

2. His air of self-assured confidence made him a born leader. (assurance)

3. She heard a … note in his voice. (quarrel)

4. Her husband turned into a real … . (tyranny)

5. I wonder what makes a man so … and hard? (forgiveness)

III. Fill in the gaps using the words from the glossary.

1. Nick was always … over something or other.

2. He was ordered to pay … to his wife and two children.

3. The little girl seemed to … into a private world.

4. In most divorce cases the mother is awarded … of the children.

5. Stuart’s … because I told him he couldn’t go out and play.

6. His … upstart criticizing everyone else had become really annoying.

Topic: YOUTH PROBLEMS.

UNIT 16.

Glossary:

· Nihilism['naiəlizәm] – the idea that all social and political institutions should be destroyed. Noun nihilist, adj. nihilistic.

· Frustration –the feeling of being annoyed, upset, or impatient, because you cannot control or change a situation, or achieve something.

· Drug-addiction (dependency) –the need to have something regularly because you are addicted to it. Adj. addictive.

· To abuse[ə'bju:z] (disapproving)–to deliberately use something for the wrong purpose; to treat something, especially power or knowledge, as an opportunity to gain an advantage for yourself; to drink or take so much of something that it harms your health; to treat a person or animal in a cruel or violent way. Noun abuse [ə'bju:s].

· To smuggle –to take something or someone illegally from one country to another. Nouns a smuggler, smuggling.

· To blunt (the senses) –to make a feeling less strong.

· To hush up (sweep under the carpet) –to prevent the public from knowing about something dishonest or immoral.

· To combat –to take action in an organized way in order to oppose something bad or harmful. Noun combat.

To annihilate[ə'naiəleit]–to destroy something or someone completely. Noun annihilation.

· Belligerent –very unfriendly or unpleasant. Noun belligerence, belligerency.

· Discontented (with) –unhappy or not satisfied with the situation you are in. Noun discontent.

· (To drink) to excess –to do something too much or too often, so that it may harm you.

· To take to drink –to start drinking a lot of alcohol regularly.

· To have a drinking bout –to have an attack or period of illness.