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STRICT RELAXED
Laid-back / lax /forever nagging you / lenient / always getting at you / always telling
you off/ having high expectations / very permissive / strait-laced /prim and proper/
conventional / fuddy-duddy / laissez-faire/ prudish/free and easy / old fogeys/a stick-
in-the-mud/ draconian/ taking you down a peg or two /
3. Ask your parents about when they were growing up and their relationship with their
grandparents / parents. Is your relationship different in any way ?
We are going to watch a programme about unruly British teenagers who are sent to
live with a very strict family for a week. Here they have to obey the same rules as
the family’s own teenagers, and it comes as a BIG SHOCK to them!!