Every Family’s Different

Task 1

a) All the members of my family have close relations. We live together. - 1, 3

b) The only child is the centre of attention. - 2, 4

c) We are many. We share our parent's attention. - 3

d) In a big family you have much love and support - 1

e) We enjoy doing many things together. - 1, 3

f) We love to celebrate holidays together. We have a lot of great parties. - 1, 3

g) There are only two of us. We do everything together, I have my own

room. - 4

h) I have a lot of privacy. - 2, 4

i) When I have a problem I can always find a person to discuss it

frankly. - 1

j) Sometimes I feel lonely. I wish I had a brother/sister. - 2, 4

k) Sometimes I feel a lack of one parent badly. - 4

l) The advantage of having a big family is that you always have a baby sitter in the house. - 1

m)I'm a twin. It's an advantage. We are very close. - 1

n) The problem of being the oldest child in,the family is that you should take

care of the younger ones. - 3

o) I have young parents. It's an advantage. - 2

p) Mother/father is my best friend. - 4

I don't think living in an extended family or a family having many children would give you much privacy,
however it can be good for outgoing children to build their social skills faster and have their support
nearby at nearly all times. I also think that living in a single-parent family, while painted sad by others,
can have its own benefits, like having a lot of free space and individuality, you also learn responsibility
faster, in my opinion, unlike in an extended or many-children family, where love and support has to be
spread out and there's more than enough chances you could be unnoticed.

Task 2
1) Being the eldest in a family of thirteen children has its certain benefits, such as becoming more
generous and tolerable due to the amount of your siblings and having happy close-knit holidays at home
each time. However, it becomes hard to divide your attention between so many siblings, especially as a
parent, when you need enough money and space to keep all of your children happy that way.

2) Being an only child comes with all the attention from your parents devoted to you, such as care, love,
and probably spending money - all of it's yours and you don't have to share it with anyone. That,
however, can skew your social views as an only child, because such lifestyle can make someone into a
loner, barely socializing and caring for other people.

3) Having an elder brother means having someone you can care for and spend time with like with a best
friend, but the best thing is that you live with one! All hardships you can go through together with one...
The only disadvantage could be not getting along with your only brother, so all of it really depends on
how you and your sibling behave.