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7. Write a short composition about yourself. Tell us a little about your likes and dislikes, your interests, your personality traits, your achievements and dreams. UNIT 2 I. Text. My family Hi, again. As you already know, my name is Andrey. Now I'd like to tell you about my family. On the whole, our family is large. There are three generations there. They are my great-grandmother, my grandparents and my parents. My father has a brother - he's my uncle, my mother has two sisters - my aunts; they have their children - my cousins. Besides, there are many in-laws in the family. I don't have any nephews or nieces, but I have a brother. I don't see all my relatives very often - mostly on some special occasions. The last happy event was my cousin's wedding the previous year, it gathered all our family. But speaking about a family we usually mean our blood relations, i.e. mother, father, sisters or brothers. My parents are rather young. My father is 39, my mother is 37. My mother's name is Tatyana Petrovna. She's an accountant in a big trading company. She has to work hard and must be very attentive, so she comes home very tired and I do my best to help her. I'm proud of my mother and love her very much. She's smart and good-looking. My father's name is Aleksey Ivanovitch. He is an engineer. He's clever, industrious, but a bit absent-minded sometimes. He has a perfect sense of humour. He has his own way in everything, and I respect him for that. My grandmother Lydia Stepanovna (my mother's mother) also lives with us. She's in her late sixties, but she's quite young in spirit. She likes reading and gardening. She's a very active person. She's either mending something or making something or doing something to entertain herself. There's no one we call the head of the family, but my granny's advice and opinion are very important in any decision we take. I have a brother called Dima. We are very much the same in character and appearance, only he is four years my junior. But in spite of the age difference we're very close. We have common interests - we both like sport, reading and computer, but I should say he is too inconsistent and rarely does his best. In other words, he is not bad, when he makes an effort. He is very energetic. It takes him half an hour to do his homework and then he rushes out to play football because he is crazy about it. There is one more member of the family. Our dog is the most important person in our house. Rex is a sheep-dog. He is very 11 gallant and devoted to his masters. He does not like to stay alone when we are out, but whenever we return he meets us with such a joy and energy that make our spirits bright. I don't think that our family is an ideal one, but it is a very stable, ordinary family. We are very close; often take care of one another when someone has a problem. We support each other, we are helpful when we have some difficulties, and though sometimes we have some rows, we always try to find a compromise. Active vocabulary
close (near) relative - близкий родственник distant relative - дальний родственник blood relative - кровный родственник 3. in-law - родня со стороны жены или мужа mother-in-law - теща, свекровь father-in-law - тесть, свекор daughter-in-law - невестка, сноха son-in-law - зять sister-in-law - невестка, золовка brother-in-law - зять, шурин
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Comprehension questions
II. VOCABULARY PRACTICE EXERCISES 1. Give English equivalents to the following words and word- combinations: три поколения семьи, родня со стороны мужа или жены, близкие родственники, дальние родственники, кровные родственники, встречаться по особым случаям, делать все возможное, немного рассеянный человек, иметь прекрасное чувство юмора, уважать за что-либо, бабушке за шестьдесят, быть молодым по духу, глава семьи, принимать решения, быть похожим по характеру и по внешности, быть на четыре года младше, прилагать усилия, быть преданным кому-либо, повышать настроение, ссориться, находить компромисс. 2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words and word- combinations: 13 close relatives, distant relatives, blood relatives, industrious person, absent-minded person, be in one's late thirties, be three years smb's senior, be four years smb's junior, be retired, have one's own way in everything, be young in spirit, entertain oneself, in spite of the age difference, have common interests, be inconsistent, rush out to play football, stay alone, make smb's spirits bright. 3. Complete the sentences using your active vocabulary 1. My grandmother and I are the people of different
4. Insert prepositions where necessary.
3. My cousin got married last year.
III. SPEECH PRACTICE EXERCISES 1. Explain the meaning of the following words Aunt, uncle, step-mother, orphan, father-in-law, brother-in-law, cousin, nephew, niece, grandmother, foster parents, adopted child, bachelor, widow, widower. 14 2. Read the interview about a Canadian family. Use the questions to write your own passage about a typical Russian family Q: Hello. Hello. Q: Could you say a few words about yourself? My name is Caitlin Murphy. I'm from Toronto, Canada. I'm twenty five years old. I live in Toronto. Q: Caitlin, could you describe a typical Canadian family? The typical Canadian family consists of two parents and usually two children. The children are typically about 5 years apart in age, and parents are usually about thirty years old when they have their children. Q: What age do people usually get married at? These days people try to get education first, that's why they usually get married several years after they graduate from university. So if people finish university at the age of twenty two, usually they get married at about the age of twenty eight. Q: Do the young take into account their parents' opinion, when they are going to get married? Usually people choose their own spouse. Arranged marriage is very uncommon. Q: Is it uncommon, when married children live with their parents? It happens often after people first get married, but they live with their parents for some time, perhaps, they are waiting for their house to be built or something like this, and then they will live with their parents, but it's not common for people to live with their parents for a very long time. Q: Is divorce a common thing nowadays? Approximately, fifty percent of marriages end up in divorce. Q: What age do young people usually move out of their parents' house? Usually people move out of their parents' house in Canada, when they're in their late teenage years, or the early adult years. Usually a lot of people move away to go to school. It is not typical that somebody would be in their twenties and still living with their parents, because it is possible to find affordable accommodation, so people generally don't wish to live at their parents' at an older age. Q: Do grandparents normally live together with their children and grandchildren? It is not typical for grandparents to live with their children and grandchildren, except in case of recent immigrants, who come to Canada and they all live together as it's typical in their culture. 15 3. Read the following micro-dialogues. Reproduce them. Make up your own ones. 1. - Well, Sam, I'll tell you how it is. You see, I married a widow and this wi dow had a daughter. Then my father, being a widower, married our daughter, so you see, my father is my son-in-law.
2. - Hi, Alan! How are you?
3. - How are your daughters, Mrs. Adams?
4. - We're having a house-warming party on the 12th. Can you come?
- Yes,but there's much more housework to do! -That's a drag! 5. - Do you have a flat of your own?
- Yes, but I prefer to lead an independent life. My parents' flat is rather spa cious, but I found a flat as soon as I started my job. 16 4. Read and translate the following text. How We Kept Mother's Day (after S. Leacock) We decided to have a special celebration of Mother's Day. We thought it a fine idea. It made us realize how much Mother had done for us for years, and all the efforts and sacrifices that she had made for our sake. So we decided that we'd do everything we could to make Mother happy. Father decided to take a holiday from his office and my sister and I stayed home from college and Mary and my brother stayed home from High School. Our plan was to make the day a big holiday. So we decided to decorate the house with flowers. We asked Mother to arrange the decoration because she always does it on holidays. Well, after breakfast we had it arranged as a surprise for Mother that we would hire a motor car and take her for a beautiful drive away into the country. Mother is never able to go to the country, because she is busy in the house all the time. We asked mother to cut some sandwiches and make up a sort of lunch in case we get hungry. Mother picked it all up in a basket for us ready to go to the car. When the car came to the door, it turned out that there was no room in it for us all. Father said he could stay at home, he said that there was a lot of work in the garden that he could do. He wanted us to go right ahead and be happy. Of course, we didn't want to let Father stay at home. So in the end it was decided that Mother would stay home and have a lovely restful day round the house and make the dinner. Mother doesn't like fishing, and also it was a little cold and fresh out of doors and Father was rather afraid that Mother might take cold if she came. We said good-bye to Mother and drove away. Mother stood and watched us as long as she could see us. We had a very happy day up among the hills. It was quite late when we came back, but Mother had guessed that we would be late, so she kept the dinner so as to have it just nicely ready and hot for us. She had to get up and down a good bit during the meal fetching things back and forward. The dinner lasted a long while, and when it was over all of us wanted to help to clear away and wash the dishes. But Mother said that she would do it herself and so we let her. It was quite late when it was all over, and when we all kissed Mother before going to bed she said it had been the most wonderful day in her life and I think there were tears in her eyes. 5. Speak about the following questions in a form of a dialogue or pre pare a 2-3 minutes' talk about them. 17 How are holidays celebrated in your family? Do you have any special traditions? Do you remember any funny episodes, connected with a holiday celebration? 6. Translate the sentences from Russian into English
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