1. Read the text filling the gaps from the choices given below.Translate the text.

apearance, achievements, roles, person, contacts, gratified, treatment, comforted, expected, familiar, personalities, infancy

It is often difficult to learn new ________________(1). A child, familiar only with tender and sympathetic ______________(2) of his family, wanders out into the neighborhood where other children play. Immediately he is ____________(3) to share with them whatever toy he is carrying. He is expected to wait in line and take his turn. He is scorned if he cries, instead of being _______________(4). The only role with which he is ___________________(5) is that of "baby of the family", but he sees that he cannot play this part with the youngsters of the ____________(6).

New roles are demanded constantly as one outgrows ______________(7) and early childhood. By high-school age each young _____________(8) is a member of many different groups - church, clubs classrooms, family, job team, etc. and in each group he is required to play different part.

In our various roles we are constantly comparing  our __________(9) with others. If we show up well, we feel ______________(10). If make a poor, we feel out of place. It`s in our _____________(12) with others that we come to know ourselves and our abilities. We continually compare our _________________(13) with those of other members of our group.

2. Make 3 questions for discussing this text.

3.Listen to the presentation and write down the definitions of status, roles, social groups. Comparing the primary and secondary social groups. Learn the functions of social group.

Social Interaction and Social Groups

4. Find and write the prepositions from the text. Translate them and fill the table.