Suggestions for improving your reading skills

• Make it a habit to read texts in the foreign language. You may start with children's stories and move on to newspaper articles, magazines and books for adults.
• Choose books, newspapers and magazines according to your personal interests and needs.
• Buy a bilingual book or buy the same book in your native language and in the foreign language. When reading, compare the books when there is something that you don't understand.
• Most of the time it is not necessary to understand every single word when reading a text. So don‘t panic if there are a few words you don‘t know. You may try to guess their meaning from the context.
• If there are words that you don't know but you think are important, look them up in a dictionary and write them down. Study them again after reading.
• If your reading purpose is to find out specific information, think about some key words first, then scan the text to find these key words. Underline important words and phrases. You may also take notes.
• If your purpose is to generally understand the text, underline important phrases in each paragraph and write down the most important things.

Vocabulary practice

I.. Give the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

Поддержка и любовь, гармоничная семья, семейные ценности, родительская власть, стабильная брак, целомудрие, забота о престарелых, нуклеарная семья, расширенная семья, поколение, члены семьи/домочадцы, здоровое общество, стабильная семейная жизнь, упадок, неполная семья, высокий уровень разводов, два основных типа семьи, реклама, недостаток дисциплины, воспитывать детей, кровь.