Mid-Term Project - Adoption

This is a very important issue you need to work on...

A baby has been found abandoned on the steps of a church, and the mother has disappeared. You have been asked to send a letter to decide who should adopt the child. Think about the following criteria and mark the ideas as to how important they are, on a scale of 1-5 (5 = vitally important, 1 = relevant).If you were the one who has to make a decision. What would you do? At the end write your conclusion and reinforce it by mentioning your reasons here, where it says comments and print it out to discuss it next class. (20 or more lines)


The adoptive parents should:

- both be under 35 years old

- be a couple, i.e. the child should not go to a single parent family

- have some professional experience of dealing with children, i.e. as teachers or nurses

- have other children in the family

- both be in full time employment

- be of the same racial group as the child

- be either in the middle-income bracket or rich

- be married

- not adhere to any minority religious group or cult

Hot Verbs Exercises

Here you have some liks to practice MAKE, DO, TAKE and PUT:

Exercise with MAKE and DO

Exercise with TAKE and PUT

Do and Make

Here you have some links about Do and Make:

Understanding the use of Do and Make

Expressions with Do and Make

Exercise with Do and Make

More Exercises