Reading Semester 2 Form 11

Додано: 6 травня 2020
Предмет: Англійська мова, 11 клас
Тест виконано: 518 разів
12 запитань
Запитання 1

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

1) When children leave home to go to university, it's ... .

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the moment they've been waiting for 

a difficult experience 

more difficult for parents than for children 

more difficult for children than for parents

Запитання 2

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

2) Kerry says when students first go to uni, parents should ... .

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give their children a lift and then stay a while 

give them a lift and then leave 

let their children find their own transport 

help them unpack their things

Запитання 3

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

3) Kerry thinks students should … .

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do everything they can to avoid upsetting lonely parents 

go home regularly while everyone gets used to the change 

not feel bad about spending weekends in their university town 

avoid visiting their parents too much during term time

Запитання 4

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

4) Kerry thinks Facebook is … .

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a good way to send private messages to family 

a good way to show her parents what she's doing with her friends 

a space that parents should keep away from 

great for parents as long as you're careful with your privacy settings

Запитання 5

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

5) Stuart thinks students sometimes … .

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look down on people who are not studying 

ask for help with their work too much 

talk about their university subjects too much 

forget that their parents were young once

Запитання 6

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

6) Stuart says parents would like to … .

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stay for at least one night when they visit 

meet their son or daughter's university friends 

come and visit at least once a fortnight 

visit every so often and go to a restaurant together

Запитання 7

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

7) Stuart is … .

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hurt that his daughter won't talk to him on Facebook 

critical of the amount of time his daughter spends on Facebook 

a big fan of Facebook 

confused about how to use Facebook properly

Запитання 8

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Choose the best option to complete this sentence.

8) Stuart promises to … .

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make only minimal changes to his daughter's bedroom 

keep his daughter's bedroom exactly as she left it 

redecorate his daughter's bedroom and turn it into a guest bedroom 

clean his daughter's old room before she comes back to visit

Запитання 9

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Complete the sentence with one of the verb phrases.

9) The text gives two points of view about the difficult time when young people … .

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hang around

leave home

put up with

Запитання 10

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Complete the sentence with one of the verb phrases.

10) Kerry was happy that her parents agreed to … when she first went to uni.

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give her a lift

take her out

go on about

Запитання 11

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Complete the sentence with one of the verb phrases.

11) Kerry advises parents not to … while their children are trying to chat to their new roommates.

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check up on

going on

hang around

Запитання 12

Leaving your family home to go to university is not always easy. Read the advice from a first-year student and her dad to get two points of view on the experience and then do the tasks.

Leaving Home

Going away to university is always a tricky time, both for the students who are leaving home and their parents who are staying behind. We got advice on how to cope from a student daughter and her dad.

A daughter’s advice to parents, by Kerry Price

    My parents drove me to uni at the beginning of the first term. That was great, but then they hung around, so it was hard to chat to the people in the rooms near mine. It's best if you leave us to unpack ourselves.

    Don’t ask us to come home during term time. There's a lot going on at weekends there just isn't time.

    Get another interest or a pet if you feel lonely without us. Don't make us feel guilty about leaving home!

    It is quite interesting to hear about your experiences at uni, but remember that it was a LONG time ago so don't go on about it so much. Things have changed a lot. Now we have a lot more debt and it’ll be harder to find a job in the future.

    Please don't check up on us or our friends on Facebook I know it’s a public site, but we have the right to some privacy.

Don’t change anything in our bedrooms. We have only half left home - we ll be back in the holidays, so please don’t touch anything.

We’d still like to come on family holidays with you. Don’t forget to include us just because we’re not there all the time.

A father’s advice to students, by Stuart Price

    Don’t complain so much about how much work you have to do. We work a lot too. You’re an adult now, get used to it.

    Put up with the fact that we refused to get a dog while you were at home, then suddenly bought one as soon as you moved out. We miss you!

    Just because you’re at university studying very complex subjects, it doesn’t mean that you’re more intelligent than everybody else. Don’t treat your family as if they were stupid; we're really not.

    Let us come and visit you now and again. We promise to try not to embarrass you in front of your friends. We just want to see you for a short time and take you out for a meal.

    Don’t waste so much time on Facebook. You need time for all that work you have to do, remember?

    We might make a few changes to your room, so deal with it. It’s great to have a guest room at last, but we won’t change things too much, promise.

    Don’t forget to call home from time to time and don’t get annoyed if we phone you. It’s not pestering. If we didn’t call, you wouldn’t know that we care.


Complete the sentence with one of the verb phrases.

12) Stuart says he would like to see Kerry occasionally and … for dinner.

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take her out

give her a lift

leave home

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