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3C Growing up: Worksheet

1 Watch the video. Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?
1 Amy has two other siblings.
2 Merinda gave her children a piece of paper with rules on them at meal times.
3 Merinda thinks there is a link between lack of sleep and bad behaviour.
4 Merinda thinks that rules helped her to organise her children’s lives.
5 Merinda didn’t want her children to realise that she knew what they were doing.
6 Amy appreciates that her mum did everything for her when she was a child.
7 Amy says that doing her school work and practicing singing and piano made her tired.
8 Amy didn’t always follow her mum’s advice.

2 Watch the video again. Complete the sentences with a word from the video.
1 Merinda thinks that she is a(n) parent.
2 Merinda thought that her children were quite  .
3 Merinda wanted her children to have good table when they were having dinner.
4 Merinda wasn’t always in of her children, but she always knew what they
were doing.
5 Amy remembers that she had to help with a lot of household and gardening.
6 Amy says that her mum made her children her.
Vocabulary Extra
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below.

appreciate hang out impose interpret overdo rebel

1 Our school strict rules about the use of mobile phones in class.
2 Modern art can be in different ways, so it means different things to
different people.
3 I really all the help you’ve given me with my homework.
4 We usually with friends in a café after school.
5 My dad works really long hours, but he shouldn’t it. We hardly ever see him
at home!
6 Our parents probably against their own parents when they were young too.

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3C Growing up: Answer key

1
1 F
2 F
3 T
4 T
5 F
6 F
7 F
8 T

2
1 strict
2 adventurous / wild
3 manners
4 control
5 chores
6 respect

3
1 imposes
2 interpreted
3 appreciate
4 hang out
5 overdo
6 rebelled

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3C Growing up: Script
Merinda My name’s Merinda, Merinda Wilson,
and I’m British. I come from the UK. I’m
in my early 50s. I’ve got two children.
They’re called Amy and May.
Amy My name is Amy, I’m 21 years old and
I’m at university at music college,
studying opera.
[Are you a strict parent?]
Merinda I think I’m a strict parent. I think rules
are very important. I thought that my
children were quite adventurous and a
little bit on the wild side, and therefore
rules are very important.
We had, especially our meal time rules
were quite interesting because they
got so badly behaved at meal times
that I really decided that we had to
have rules. And I wrote them on a piece
of paper and put them on the wall by
the table, so that when we sat down
to have our meals, they could see the
rules written on the wall. And that was
quite important.
We had to sit at the table, we had to
eat nicely and had to have good table
manners.
I think the other rule, really important
rule, is bedtime. Because what I’ve
noticed is that as soon as they don’t
have enough sleep, they behave badly.
So, bedtime is very important, and
making sure that they do get to bed on
time and obviously get up on time.
Those were just two places where I
imposed strict rules, and they seemed
to then create a certain amount of
structure in the day.
[What does being strict mean to you?]
Merinda I’m not necessarily in control, but I
know everything that they do. So,
I know when they go out, I know
where they’re going, I know what time
they’re coming back, I know what their
homework is, I know when they’ve got
particular things to do, and I know, for
example, whose turn it is to clear the
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table. So, it’s just sort of making sure
that they know that I know what they
should be doing. And I think that really
makes a lot of difference, and that’s
how I interpret being strict.
[So, does Amy agree?]
Amy I think my mum was quite a strict
parent. She was certainly strict about
food, no sort of crisps and junk food,
and I totally appreciate that now.
She had a lot of rules about manners
at the dinner table, eating using your
knife and fork properly, and we had to
say, ‘Please may I get down now?’ when
we’d finished dinner. I remember
her getting us to help with a lot of
household chores and gardening, and
not being one of those mums who just
does everything for us.
I remember rules about bedtime were
to go when she said to go! We had to
do reading before bed. Either we would
read to Mum or sometimes she would
read to us, depending on how sleepy
we were.
So, she was strict but I think in all the
right ways, and she made us respect her.
When I was younger, I used to disagree
with her sometimes. Mainly to do with
social events and sort of hanging out
with friends, or what I was going to do
after school because Mum would try
and encourage me to not overdo things
so that I wouldn’t get tired. And also to
do school work and do practice for my
hobbies, for example singing practice
or piano practice. And there were times
when I didn’t agree with what she’d
said and I rebelled.
She let us make our own decisions but
would always say what she thought
about them. So, for example she’d
say, ‘Well you can go to the disco if you
want to, but I think you might be tired
the next day.’ Or, ‘You might not enjoy
it as much as you think. But if you want
to, you can do what you want.’
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So, at times I did go against what she
said, and sometimes those things were
okay and sometimes they didn’t go as
well as I wanted. And now I realise that
Mum is normally … 99.9% she’s right.

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