Foster care Lesson 521 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 43 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Foster carers are grown-ups who look after a child in their own home when the child's parents can't. 1 They are checked and trained first, and a social worker visits to make sure the child is safe and well. 2 Tayla arrives at her new foster home with everything she owns in two black bin bags. 3 Her foster mum, Jan, takes one look and fetches a proper suitcase with wheels. 5 Trust grows slowly, and small kind acts help it grow. 6 Every Saturday Josiah's foster mom calls up the stairs, «Y'all want pancakes?» («y'all» means you all, in the southern USA). 8 He still loves his birth mom, the mom he was born to, and he sees her at contact visits. 9 Reece sees his birth mum every two weeks at a family centre, with a worker in the room. 11 He loves her and he's angry with her, both in the same hour. 12 Loving your foster family and your birth family, and being cross too, are all allowed. 13 Not every placement works. 14 Cormac's foster carers shout at him and leave him at home on family days out. 15 He's scared that if he tells, he'll be moved again. 16 He tells his social worker anyway. 17 She listens, writes it all down, and within a fortnight he moves to a new family, the Okafors. 18 It's hard to start again, but he is safe, and every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly. 19 Delphine starts at her third school in two years. 21 «Thinking this one'll be different is delulu» («delulu» means kidding yourself). 22 She makes one friend in the first week, and that's enough to start. 23 Good days happen too. 24 Mitch's foster dad runs behind his bike, holding the seat, and lets go. 25 «You beauty, you got it!» he shouts (Australian for brilliant, well done). 26 Kayden's foster family has a fat old Labrador called Biscuit who sleeps on Kayden's bed from the first night. 28 Tyrese has never been on holiday. 29 His foster carer says, «We're going to Cornwall, you're coming.» «The hotel pool's peng,» he tells his mates after (London slang for great). 30 Ciara and her little brother Cian are in different foster homes, because no carer had room for both. 31 They see each other every two weeks and video-call in between. 32 She asks her social worker if they can meet more. 33 Sometimes, the plan becomes long-term. 34 Amara's social worker tells her, «Your foster family would like you to stay with them long-term, until you're grown up.» «Like... forever?» Amara whispers. 35 Thrilled and scared at once, she makes a list of questions, and the social worker answers every one. 36 Foster carers look after children in their own homes when the children's parents can't. 37 Foster carers are checked and trained, and social workers visit to make sure children are safe. 38 Some foster placements are short, some long-term, until the child grows up. 39 Children in foster care often move a lot, which makes trust hard; small kind acts help trust grow. 40 A birth parent is the parent a child was born to; contact visits let children in care see them. 41 Children can love their foster family and their birth family, and feel angry too. 42 Every child has the right to be safe and treated fairly; if a placement isn't safe, tell a social worker or teacher. 43 Moving school is hard; making one friend first helps. 44 Brothers and sisters in care are sometimes placed apart, and they should still see each other. 45 Foster families include children in ordinary family life, like holidays, pets and birthdays. 46 Children can ask their social worker questions, and their views are listened to. 47 «Y'all» means you all, «delulu» means kidding yourself, «you beauty» is Australian for brilliant, «peng» is London slang for great, and «eh» is a word Canadians often add to the end of a sentence. ← previous Living in a children's homenext → Adoption↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/521-foster-care/