Today is grandparents' day. The role of grandparents has changed along the years. When I was a kid (that was a long time ago) most parents (especially mothers) would take care of children, and grandparents would be those who would cook your favourite meal or tell you a funny story of the past.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Telling Our Stories
Some other examples: 1 2 3 4
However, as both parents began to work outside home, grandparents started to take over and be in charge of their grandchildren with tasks such as taking them to school, and collecting them, spending the afternoons doing homework with them, having them at home for holidays and so on...
Here are some related articles for you to read about the issue:
Poll reveals crucial role of grandparents in childcare | Society | The Guardian
Grandparents step up, save families - CNN
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Grandparents 'vital' to family life
The impact of a 'grandparent deficit' on older parents - CNN
Nonetheless, all that glitters is not gold, as children's education used to be a responsability of the parents, or they would even learn from other peers playing in the streets. Now this is no longer like that in many cases and here's the problem:
Indulgent grandparents 'bad for children's health' - BBC News
Is grandparents' old-school parenting putting kids at risk? - CNN
What are your grandparents like? Do they help your parents at home? Do they take care of you?
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Stop Making Mistakes with Relative Clauses! [Which & That]
143. TENSES
and VERB FORMS. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense. Some
verbs are passive, and there are also
examples of the conditionals, indirect speech, infinitives and gerunds (-ing form):
An interview with
Sarah Jenkins
Sarah Jenkins is an
English teacher. She (work) 1. ____________________ in a language school
in London. She (teach) 2. ____________________ since she (leave)
3. ____________________ university
five years ago. I asked her first if she (enjoy) 4. ____________________ teaching English.
'Yes, I do,' she
replied. 'It's hard work, but it's very rewarding.'
'(ever, work) 5.
________________________________________
abroad?'
'Yes,' replied
Sarah, 'I (spend) 6.
____________________ two years in Madrid. But the school soon closed
and I (make) 7. ____________________ redundant.
Luckily, some of my students asked me if I (continue) 8. ____________________ to teach them
privately, so I stayed in Madrid'.
'Well, a funny thing
(happen) 9. ____________________ while
I (work) 10. ____________________ at
the school in Madrid. I had a student called Gloria. On some days she was the
best student in the class. But on other days she performed really badly. I
tried very hard (help) 11.
____________________ her, but things got worse. Then, one day, I (meet)
12. ____________________ Gloria in
the street and asked her about her boyfriend. (The day before she (tell)
13. ____________________ me a sad
story about him.) She was surprised and told me that her name (be) 14. ____________________ Victoria, not her
twin sister Gloria.'
Then I asked her
about her plans for the future and she said: 'Well, I (begin) 15. ____________________ a teacher training
course next September'. I told her: 'I'm sure you (become) 16. ____________________ an excellent
teacher'. However, she had a problem because she and her boyfriend had already
arranged something for the summer. I asked her what it was and she replied: 'We
(get) 17. ____________________ married
on the 3rd August!!'
'I don't really know what I (do)
18. ____________________ if I (have)
19. ____________________ to take
such a decision, but it seems everything turned out to be wonderful because
they got married, had three children and she (run) 20. ____________________ a private academy in
Toledo at the moment'.
144. Insert the second sentences into the first
ones by means of a RELATIVE CLAUSE.
1. Real Madrid have won the Champions League
Cup thirteen times. This doesn't please Barcelona supporters.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio played an important role
in the film Titanic. He began his
career as an actor working with Robert DeNiro.
3. I was in the cinema. Your father sometimes
works there.
4. The chair was not very stable. I was
sitting on this chair.
5. Albert guessed the result of the
match. His talent to predict the future is similar to Rappel's.
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141. READING &
COMPREHENSION.
1. Vodka and tequila
2. Free T-shirts, caps, posters, free vodka for a whole term
3. a.
TARGET b. BRAND c. TO ENCOURAGE d. TO BE UNAWARE e. TO BE CONCERNED
ABOUT
4.
a. TRUE, because "This means that they spend a lot of time in pubs,
bars, discotheques and clubs"
b. FALSE, because "Therefore, young people are a natural target for
advertisers, especially the advertisers who work for liquor companies."
c. TRUE, because "Companies
advertise drinks at cheaper prices together with free T-shirts, caps and
posters in order to encourage teenagers to try..."
d. FALSE, because "Companies
advertise drinks at cheaper prices together with free T-shirts, caps and
posters in order to encourage teenagers to try..."
e. TRUE, because "The main danger,
they say, is the serious risk to life when young people drink large amounts of
liquor and then try to drive home."
f. TRUE, because "young people are unaware of how drinking affects their judgement and
reaction time."
g. TRUE, because "Liquor companies only care about making a profit on alcohol."
5.
Advertising (l. 3) the activity companies carry out in order to sell their commercial products or services better.
Prize (l. 7) the thing that you get when you win a competition or a contest
Expert (l. 9) people who know a lot about a certain area of knowledge
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"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"
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For me my grandparents are one of the most important people in my life who have brought me many things and all of them are good things, they have also taken care of us since we were little and then they have seen us grow.
ResponderEliminarI always went to see them, I used to go every day even if it was five minutes for me to see or I also stayed there at the time when my parents were not at home for work or any other reason and I had to eat something that they knew that I I liked it a lot and after eating when I had to go to my house they always gave me some money and said they would take it for you to go and buy you something to snack on.
Our grandparents are always pampering us and what they continue to do and they take care of us and love us very much.
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ResponderEliminarFor me my grandparents are the most important thing in my life. Above all, I am closer to my maternal grandparents because they are the ones with whom I spent the most time, and those who, when my parents have worked, have taken care of me since I was little and have always loved me very much. Grandparents are worth a lot since they are like our second parents and for them their grandchildren is the most important thing, and they love them more than everything and many times they do not value that and there are those who do not even go to see them.
I go to see them every week, and in times when there are no exams or in summer I spent several days with them, because they make me very happy.
We should take advantage of all the moments with them, because we do not know when they may be missing, and there is nothing to do there besides remembering them foreverand, because when they leave our lives they leave a very big void.
Nuria Díaz Ruiz
Grandparents are very important people in our lives. They are important because they take care of you, love you, help you, protect you ... Before they took care of our parents (their children) and now they take care of us (their grandchildren). Grandparents advise you and tell you what is right and what is wrong. With grandparents you have a good time, they tell you things from the past. they know a lot because they have lived almost a lifetime. The worst (of grandparents) is that as they are older one day they leave us and we only have good memories of them. I love my grandparents very much because they are very kind and they love me too.
ResponderEliminarFrancisco José Prados Espinosa
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ResponderEliminarThey give advice, they tell extraordinary stories, they are the best caregivers, they show affection for their every pore, and sometimes they can also be a bit curmudgeonly. They are called grandparents, and every July 26 their existence, their incalculable contribution to society and their fundamental role in the family are celebrated. All these stories highlight characteristics and aspects of grandparents that make them special, and include messages and morals for the little ones in the house to value their presence in their lives from the moment they are born.
ResponderEliminarAlexandra Pérez Moreno 2ºA
Maybe, if you ask any child who is the most important person to him, he will answer: "my grandparents". For me too, although I´m closer to my maternal grandfather because I grew up with him.
ResponderEliminarIn fact, he is the most important person for me, my grandfather Pepe. I don't think I'll ever be able to love someone like I love him.
He is the person that I admire the most in the world, I have spent all my luck having him.
When I was little, I always thought that all my friends envied me for having such a cool grandfather like him, and I understand them…
I love cooking with him. Our favourite recipe is “cazuela serrana”, a typical dish from Lanjarón. I have never heard anyone speak badly of him. I have only heard good words.
When my parents worked and couldn't take care of my sister or me, we went to the countryside with my grandfather and we always had a lot of fun with him. We helped him taking care of the animals, or with the orchard, or played cards. I loved when he told me stories from the past, they were really interesting.
My other grandfather, who also called Pepe, was a painter, but not a painter like Picasso or Goya. He painted houses. He was well known in my town because he was the best at his job. People loved him so much, and although he loved painting, his true passion was cinema. My grandfather worked at the cinema, and he always told me some anecdotes about his job, and we talked about films for hours. My favourite film is “Cinema Paradiso”, and we always watched it together. I remember him a lot when I see it.
From my paternal grandfather, my best memory are those rainy days in which we ate crumbs with fish, and fritters with chocolate in the afternoon.
Grandparents, unfortunately, aren´t forever. We should value the moments with them because they are unique. They are our real treasure.