2A. Good & Bad Behaviour____The world we live in____[Latinate]

It is natural for parents to take care of their own children. They take great trouble to feed and clothe them and are over-anxious to give them a good start in life. Most children take advantage of their parents. Some get into a lot of trouble and have to be taught to behave better.

However, we cannot pretend that adults are good. We only have to follow the news to be reminded of all the violence and corruption in the world. We hear about countries which are trying to prove superior to neighbouring states by attacking them and sometimes they succeed in obtaining control of them. We read about boxers who fell their opponents with brutal punches causing them to fall in front of an audience of excited spectators. We cry when a pet cat is painlessly killed, but when a woman is murdered by a jealous husband, it is just another news story.

Our politicians attack each other in Parliament. They think we are tricked by their promises, but few of us are deceived. They pretend to be public servants, but they repress us with their laws and cheat us of our hard earned income. No politician is going to sacrifice their life for you or me. They would rather betray the country's secrets. That's why we mimic them on television. They do not mind this, but any real protest or rebellion would soon be suppressed.

Take great trouble	put oneself out	Suppress	put down
Be over anxious (to help)	fall over oneself	Repress	keep down
Take care of	look after	Sacrifice	lay down (life)
Behave better	turn over a new leaf	Betray	give away
Murder	do in	Cheat of	do out of
Kill painlessly	put down	Cheat	do someone down
Attack	go for	Deceive	take in
Attack	lay into	Be tricked by	fall for
Attack	turn on	Pretend	make out
Cause to fall	lay out	Pretend to be	pass (oneself) off as
Fell	cut down	Mimic	take off
Prove superior to	get the better of	Take advantage of	put upon
Obtain control of	take over