1.24. Read the poem, translate it and express your opinion about it. Learn the poem

by heart. Have you heard about Emily Dickinson before? Try to find out some

Information about her and present it to class.

I’m Nobody.

Who Are You?

I’m Nobody. Who are you?

Are you Nobody too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don’t tell. They’d banish us – you know. - send (us) away

How dreary to be Somebody. - dull, depressing

How public, like a frog,

Who tells his name the livelong day

To an admiring bog! - wet, marshy place

WRITING

1.25. Look at the chart and guess the full names for these common English

nicknames and write them down.

1. Joe ___________ 7. Ginny _______________

2. Dot (Dottie) ____ 8. Barbie _______________

3. Tony __________ 9. Bob _________________

4. Chris __________ 10. Chuck ______________ 5. Mike __________ 11. Jess ________________

6. Nick __________ 12. Dick ________________

1.26. What nicknames are used for these names? Can you guess?

1. Edward _______________ 6. Frederick ______________

2. Patricia _______________ 7. Samuel ________________

3. Ann __________________ 8. Jennifer ________________

4. Stephen _______________ 9. Matthew _______________

5. Nickolas ______________ 10. Megan ________________

1.27. Write five or more sentences about your name in Russian. Is the last

name written first? Do you have a nickname? What is the origin of your

name? Does your name have a religious meaning? Does it refer to a

place, an animal, or an occupation? Your class may decide to combine

all the papers into a class name list.

1.28. What do you think about women keeping their maiden names after

marriage? Write your opinion in five-ten sentences. Compare your

opinions with those of your partners and discuss them as a class.

1.29. A) Match the words with the parts of the business card.

b) Make up your business card. You can invent your job and the

company you work for.

Address ___ telephone number ___

Company name ____ fax number _________

Zip code (BrE postcode) ____ job title ____________ e-mail address ____________ web site ____________

Area code ________________

HOLDER ⁽³⁾ 20344 Mack Avenue ENTERPRISES ⁽¹⁾ Grosse Point

Michigan 48236 ⁽⁴⁾

⁽⁵⁾ [phone] ⁽⁶⁾

Howard Skyring (313) 278-⁽⁷⁾1355 (fax)

⁽²⁾ IT Consultant [e-mail]⁽⁸⁾

www.holdernet.com⁽⁹⁾

Unit 2.

People Around Me. My Family and Myself.

The we of me.

Carson McCullers

Recommended grammar:

Possessives. Adjectives and Adverbs. Prepositions of time and place. Auxiliaries.

BUILDING-UP YOUR VOCABULARY

1. a) Study the nouns denoting the most important relatives.

b) Make up a story, explaining the meanings of all the words from the chart. You can start the story like in the model below.

When two persons are married, the man is called the husband, the woman becomes his wife. When a child is born in the family, the father and the mother of the child are called parents. A family usually consists of a father, a mother and children – sons and daughters or both …

	male	female
your parents’ parents	grandfather	grandmother
your grandparents’ parents	great-grandfather	great-grandmother
your parents’ brother and sister	uncle	aunt
your aunt’s/uncle’s children	cousin	cousin
your parents’ cousins’ children	second cousin	second cousin
the father and mother of the person you marry	father-in-law	mother-in-law
the brother and sister of the person you marry	brother-in-law	sister-in-law
your brother’s /sister’s child	nephew	niece
the person you marry dies, so you are a …	widower	widow
your mother or father remarries, so you have a …	step-father	step-mother
a husband or a wife	spouse	spouse
if both parents die, an orphan (=parentless child) may be adopted by a …	foster father	foster mother
your sister or brother	sibling	sibling
a person you are descended from, especially one who lived a long ago	forefather	-

2. Complete the sentences with the correct word or word combination.

1. My ________’s name is Carol.

a) father b) mother c) brother

2. She was married to my ______________.

a) father b) grandmother c) husband

2. My mother and father like flowers; my _____________ like flowers.

a) families b) parents c) siblings

2. My mother married again. Her new husband, Tom, is my ________.

a) spouse b) father-in-law c) step-father

2. My mother has a daughter; she is my _____________.

a) niece b) cousin c) sister

2. She is twenty years old and I am twelve. She is my _________ sister.

a) elder b) aged c) older

2. My mother’s son is only ten years old. He is my ________________.

a) younger sibling b) youngest c) younger brother

2. My mother’s new husband Tom has a daughter who is five. She is my ____.

a) sister-in-law b) step-sister c) younger sister

2. My mother’s parents and my father’s parents are my ______________.

a) grandparents b) great-grandparents c) forefathers

2. My grandparents’ parents are my _____________________.

a) grand-grandparents b) great-grandparents c) greatparents

2. My mother has a sister, Azza. She is my ______________.

a) grandsister b) niece c) aunt

2. Azza’s husband is my ___________.

a) grandbrother b) uncle c) aunt

2. Their daughter is my _____________.

a) niece b) nephew c) cousin

2. My elder sister has two children. Her little boy is my _______.

a) niece b) nephew c) cousin

2. My sister’s daughter is my _______.

a) cousin b) niece c) grandsister

2. The son of my mother is the ________ of my grandparents.

a) grandson b) uncle c) nephew

2. My grandfather’s sister’s son is my mother’s ______________.

a) uncle b) nephew c) cousin

2. My sister is married. Her husband is my ___________.

a) brother-in-law b) step-father c) uncle

2. The father of my sister’s husband is her ___________.

a) uncle b) step-father c) father-in-law

2. The daughter of my father is the ________ of his parents.

a) step-daughter b) niece c) granddaughter