8 Read the text and decide if the statements are correct (C) or incorrect (i).
1 Teenagers argue a lot with their grandparents.
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2 Researchers interviewed students from the University
of Glasgow
3 About 150 people were interviewed in the study.
4 Grandparents are helpful when children argue with
their parents.
5 Only young children are very close to their grandparents.
6 It's easy for teenagers to talk to their grandparents.
7 Grandparents sometimes help with money.
8 Older people can't learn about modern technology
Forget the generation gap - teenagers say
their best friends are their grandparents
Don't believe that teenagers and adults argue all the time
frenagers and their grandparents get on very well together.
have done a study on
How deep is the conflict between the older and the younger generation, and is it limited it is only a dissimilar taste in music, fashion and behavior? In fact, the reasons for the lack of mutual understanding are much more complicated and are explained, as a rule, by the ardent desire of adults to protect children from mistakes and disappointments.
Having their life experience behind them, parents more clearly see the potential dangers confronting a frivolous teenager, more thoughtfully realize the consequences of his wrong behavior in those or other cases. But in every possible way protecting his offspring from the harsh realities of life, adults thereby deprive him of his own experience, substituting him for his own. Whether they act in the interests of good and altruism, or authoritatively impose their decision - the result is one, and disagreements invariably lead to rather acute and long-term conflicts. Of course, it is unfair to blame the situation for adults only, since teenagers, alas, are their hot-tempered disposition and lack of respect can exacerbate relations to the limit, not paying too much attention to the comments of parents and treating them as an unfortunate interference in their own lives.
But the greatest complexity of this sample emy is, perhaps, in its inescapable. After all, even deeply and thoroughly knowing the nature of the conflict, it is hardly possible to reconcile a balanced and judicious older generation with an explosive and disobedient youth.
1. Harddy had I watered the garden when it began to rain.
2. When Mary had finished her novel she planned to go abroad.
3. When Ann had spoken to the doctor she realized how serious her illness was.
4. No sooner had the ship left the port the storm began.
5. Scarcely had I got into the bath, someone knocked at the door.
6. When they had found one missing child another two disappeared.
7. When had I sat down, there was another knock at the door.
8. No sooner had I come home when I remembered that I had forgotten to buy bread.
9. As soon as the child touched the pillow, he fell asleep.
10. Harddy had he play started, there was a power failure.
11. No sooner had the trial proceedings began than the judge was taken ill.
12. Scarcely had the plane taken off, the pilot had to make an emergency landing.
13. When the train left I realized I had left my bag on the platform.
14. Harddy had he begun his speech, someone interrupted him.