Exercise 4. Answer the following questions about Yaroslav and his family.
1. How many people are there in Yaroslav’s immediate family?
2. What do you know about his father?
3. What can you say about his mother?
4. Does Yaroslav have any brothers or sisters?
5. Are they older or younger?
6. Is Svetlana fond of animals?
7. Is Tatjana dreaming about journalism?
8. Does Yaroslav look like his father?
9. Is he patient?
10. Do his sisters look like their father?
11. Does his mother cook something delicious on weekends?
12. Does Yaroslav have other relatives?
13. How often does he see them?
14. Is he married?
15. Does Yaroslav have a happy family?
Exercise 5. Answer the following questions about you and your family.
1. What is your name?
2. When is your birthday?
3. Where were you born?
4. How old are you?
5. How do you spend your free time?
6. Do you have any hobby?
7. Do you like to read? Who is your favorite writer?
8. Do you go in for sport?
9. Do you come from a small or large family?
10. What are your parents?
11. What is your father’s hobby?
12. Can you describe your mother?
13. Who do you look like?
14. Are you the only child in the family?
15. Is your sister (brother) younger or older than you?
16. What is your sister’s (brother’s) occupation?
17. What kind of things do you and your family do together?
18. Do you prefer to spend time with your family or with your friends?
19. Do you spend your week-ends together with your parents?
20. Have you got grandparents?
21. When did you last visit relatives?
22. What don’t you like about visiting your relatives?
23. Is your family united?
24. How would you describe the relationships in your family?
25. What are your ideas of your future family?
Exercise 6. С hoose the correct arrangement of the dialogue and translate it into Russian.
1) Yes, several. They often come to see us at our place or we go to see them.
2) Do you all live together?
3) Thank you so much!
4) I'll come by all means. I'll be so glad to know the mall.
5) Besides your immediate relatives you must also have some uncles and aunts and some cousins.
6) Can you tell me about your family?
7) It's all in the hands of my mother. Of course, my sisters and I help her.
8) Come to us some time.
9) Oh, my family is a very large one. I have a mother, a father, grandparents, two sisters and a brother.
10) I wonder who does the cooking and looks after the house.
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11) Yes, we do, and it's a remarkable thing that we practically never quarrel.
Exercise 7. Make up your own dialogue.
Exercise 8. Choose and fill in the appropriate words from vocabulary.
1. My mother has three sisters, so I have three …
2. I have many uncles and aunts, so I have many…
3. There are only three rooms in our apartment, so I have to …. a room with my brother.
4. Sometimes I …. with my brother about computer time.
5. My father’s father is my …. He’s got married nearly 50 years ago. His …. Is my ….
6. My sister Charlotte is married, too. Peter is her….
7. Charlotte and Peter have a little girl, Elizabeth. She is my….
8. Grandparents, parents, children, uncles, aunts: people live together with a large number of relatives, big families, so-called ….
9. I get along well with my brother. We never ….
10. My…. (mother and father) are my best friends.
Exercise 9. Choose the best alternative to fill in the gaps in each of the following sentences.
1. We need a family for ---- and protection.
a) comfort b) extended c) annoying
2. ----- is important in extended family
a) happiness b) privacy c) discussions
3. ------ respect can substitute for love in a family.
a) interdependent b) mutual c) general
4. He is always going on his working class -----.
a) past b) roots c) background
5. The children are being well ----- for.
a) look b) cared c) take care
6) I ----- your worries about this.
a) share b) trust c) believe
7. Living with my -----, is just like living with my own parents.
a) relatives b) friends c) in-lows
8. One of the most important problems in families is a problem of generation ---.
a) gap b) clap c) problem
9) My ----- parents are really kind people.
a) foster b) adoptive c) receiving
10. Caring and sharing are the main ---- in my family.
a) custom b) tradition c) values
Exercise 10. Look up the words in a dictionary, transcribe and learn them:
anxiety, magazine, advertisement, feature, basic, ancient, society, sociologist, nuclear, extended, crisis, cause, divorce, marriage, couple, majority, responsibility, aunt, uncle, cousin, equal, decision, leisure, financial, economy, private, castle, separate, desirable, participate, permissiveness, parental, independence, appropriate, encourage, adulthood, socialize, failure, occupation, senior, ethnocentric, exist, relatively, ancestry, adoption.
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