Vocabulary – test noVocabulary – test no.1 1) Future plans – handout – not the 
text „Overweight, underpaid“ but the other side with vocabulary and FCE type 
exercise; Then: to apply for university, entrance exam, dormitory (dorm), gap 
year, 2) Young generation: to put up with changes, bodily/hormonal changes, mood 
swings, growth, feeling of insecurity, mature – immature, parents’ expectations, 
to fulfil somebody’s expectations, peer groups, peer pressure – difficult to 
resist the pressure, to rebel against authorities, to be financially 
independent, self-sufficient, image, self-esteem, different concerns – parents 
are concerned about different things, different taste in music,to argue, to have 
arguments, to treat somebody; to vote, to participate in elections (municipal 
elections – komunální volby), to vote for a left-wing/right-wing party; digital 
natives – digital immigrants, thumb generation, cyber-bullying; threatening 
messages 3) Family: Nuclear family, extended family, distant and close 
relatives, nearest blood relatives, siblings, family 
gatherings/get-togethers/reunions; half-brother, step-brother, broken homes, 
single-parent families, singles, to bring up a child – to raise a child, to give 
birth to a child, to adopt a child, to foster a child, great-grandparents, to 
cohabit, to be on a maternity leave, to pursue a career; childless couples, 
traditional values, divorce rate, to stay together for the sake of the children, 
household, multi-generational household, children born outside marrige/out of 
the wedlock; breadwinner, homemaker, strict parent, disciplinarian, comforter, 
housework – chores, to take after somebody, not to be on speaking terms, a 
hen-pecked husband, to wear the trousers, to see eye to eye with somebody; child 
abuse, infidelity/unfaithfulness, to cheat on somebody/have extra-marital 
relationship, break-up of a family, abortion, to conceive a child, 
contraception; to put off having a baby the number (of divorces) is on the 
rise/increasing; more than one in three marriages ends in divorce; approximately 
40%; the number has risen/increased – dropped/decreased – doubled