2) Answer the questions:

1) Have you got a sister or a brother?

2) Have you got an elder sister or a younger sister/brother?

3) Has your cousin a wife or a husband?

4) Do you want to have a son, a daughter or twins?

5) Have you any nephews or nieces? How can you characterize them?

6) What is your aunt?

7) What is your uncle?

8) Have you a second cousin?

9) What is your second cousin's name?

10) You are the eldest child in the family, aren't you?

11) You are the only child in the family, aren't you?

12) What names would you like to give to your son and daughter?

13) What qualities must a perfect wife have? Must she tell you everything?

14) What kind of character should an ideal husband have?

15) Have you got any relations by marriage?

16) Has anybody of your relatives stepchildren?

3) Use the information of the text to answer the following questions:

Translate the following: illegitimacy, remarriage, single parent, Family structure:

The British live longer, marry later, have fewer children and are more likely to get divorced than ever before. Young people leave home earlier, though not necessarily to get married. More women now go out to work and more people, especially the old, live alone. The nuclear family (parents and perhaps two children) has largely replaced the extended family where several generations lived together, but has also been partly replaced by patterns of remarriage where children with different parents may live together as a family for some or all of the time.

Although patterns are changing, most people in Britain still get married and have children and stay together until the end of their lives. People are marrying later: the average woman gets married at twenty-seven to a man who is just over two years older (although it is estimated that 40 per cent of couples live together before getting married). Mrs. Average now has her first child in her late twenties, but she will have only one or two children: one mother in four has more. Eight out of ten married women will have children at some point in their lives. And despite the changes in working habits it is usually the woman who has overall responsibility for domestic life: the traditional division of family responsibilities still persists.

Britain has one of the highest divorce rates in Western Europe approximately one in three marriages ends in divorce, half of them in the first ten years of marriage. As a result more people are getting remarried and there are now over 1.6 million single parents. There has also been a sharp rise in the rate of illegitimacy; by 1999 nearly 40 per cent of babies were born outside marriage.