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Topic 6: Helping a Family MemberQuestion: Describe an occasion when you helped a family member or relative with somethingAnswer: So the time that happened quite recently, where I helped a member of my family, was when I helped my brother to apply for his Irish passport. So the situation was this. My brother was working in Bolivia at the time, and he was planning to move from Bolivia to Germany. And in order to work in Germany, he had to have an Irish passport. Now, luckily, my family is half Irish, so we"re able to apply for Irish citizenship and get Irish passports. So in that sense, we"re very flexible and very lucky.Unfortunately, the process for applying for the Irish passport requires a lot of paperwork, and it"s very difficult to do paperwork if you"re not in your home country, which my brother wasn"t. So I had to help him to process all of the different types of paperwork that he required, and they included things like a photocopy of his original passport, also proof of his address, a confirmation of his name, his birth certificate, and a lot of other things. So it was a lot of paperwork, but it really couldn"t be done by him, and it was urgent. So in that sense, I was happy to help.To be honest, it was a little bit annoying to have to do all of that work. It was a bit distracting. But I think that it"s important in that situation to help if you are able to help because things will come back. People that you help now might help you in the future. So in terms of how I felt about it, it was a little bit annoying, but I think I did the right thing. And eventually, we sent off the paperwork, and he was able to successfully get his Irish passport and start working in Germany. So it was a happy ending.Question: How can children help their parents at home?Answer: Well, it depends on the age of the child, really. I think very young kids, it"s hard for them to do anything because, you know, anything like cleaning or cooking or putting things away or anything like that is going to be a little bit too difficult for them. And you couldn"t rely on them doing a good job. But once children reach, say, the age of 10 or 11, then I think it"s quite reasonable to ask them to do things like keeping their room tidy.If they have younger brothers or sisters, they could entertain them, look after them. So there"s many different ways that they can help. But I think the important thing is that the age of the child has to match the activity that they"re being asked to do.Question: Should parents reward their children when they help others?Answer: I think that it"s a little dangerous to be giving a reward every time children help others. And of course, it depends on what the reward is as well. So if it was something like money, then I think that children would develop the kind of mental relationship between helping others and receiving money. And I don"t think that that"s a very healthy thing for them to think.So instead, it would be better if they could get some kind of intrinsic satisfaction from helping other people. So an internal feeling of, "I"ve done a good job," and maybe that could be encouraged by parents. Instead of giving them something physical as a reward, praising them, giving them verbal rewards instead, telling them that they"ve done a good job. And that way, they might have a better chance of developing a good habit.Question: Do neighbours often help each other in your country?Answer: Not so much. Actually, here in the UK as a country, I think we"re a little bit cold and people generally don"t spend too much time talking to their neighbours. So unless you know your neighbour very well, it"s quite unlikely that you would help them. But it"s the sort of situation where if a neighbour came round and directly asked for help, then probably you would give that help to them, but you wouldn"t go out of your way to be offering help to them unless you saw that they really needed it.编辑：Moon李▼IDE英创教育