Hungary 2013 - Nigel A JAMES
Happy
Families
Some
thinking about truths that never have been!
Times
used to be different! Families used to sit down
together for lunch every day and everyone always had time for each
other. They were the good old days. Now things are different.
Or
are they? The idea that families were units of permanent
happiness is nothing more than a dream. People never had time for
each other, and, family lunches were seldom more than weekly
occasions. It was a question of circumstances. There was
always something more important to do, and work was on the top of the
list.
And,
family lunches were never the heart of family life! They were,
instead, occasions of forced traditional values.
In many families, children weren't allowed to speak, and in other
homes no one was allowed to eat before the father had finished his
share (usually the biggest). In the main, family
lunches were occasions of order and rarely
good fun.
But
of course, as we all know, things have now changed for the better.
We still may not see each other so often, but, it's more fun when we
do. And, thanks to modern methods of communication, families are
closer than ever!
The
good old days may have been fun, but give me today – things have
never been better!
Vocabulary
circumstances
– Umstände
forced
– gezwungene - (I
was forced to tell her the truth)
had
had – hätte gehabt
in
the main – hauptsächlich (In
the main,
it was a wonderful day)
Or
– oder
occasions
– Gelegenheiten
order
– Ordnung
permanent
– ständig/dauerhaft
rarely
– seldom
seldom
– selten
share
– Teil (His share was the biggest)
used
to - was früher wahr
war (I used to live in London)
unit
– Einheit
values
– Werte
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- 2014
