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2.3. Fill out these charts in English.

 РОДСТВЕННИКИ

ДЛЯ ЖЕНЫ

ДЛЯ МУЖА

свёкор

отец мужа

тёща

мать жены

свекровь

мать мужа

тесть

отец жены

деверь

брат мужа

свояченица

сестра жены

золовка

сестра мужа

шурин

брат жены

свояк

муж золовки

свояченица

жена шурина

свояченица

жена деверя

свояк

жениной сестры муж

 ДЛЯ РОДИТЕЛЕЙ, СЕСТРЫ, БРАТА

невестка

жена сына, жена брата

зять

муж дочери, муж сестры

сват

отец невесты/ки, отец зятя, жениха

сваха

мать зятя, мать невестки

2.4. In English there are special words to describe different stages of human life. Find the Russian equivalent to each stage and think of a relative or friend to match each stage.

Age Stage

0-1 approximately a baby

1-2 a toddler

2-12 approximately a child – this period is your childhood

13-17 approximately a teenager (14=early teens)

18+ an adult (a person comes of age)

20-30 in your twenties (24-26= mid-twenties)

30-40 in your thirties (38= late thirties)

40+ people are middle-aged; in middle age

60 or 65 retirement (= when people stop work; they are retired)

75+ old age (you can also say elderly)

Note: For boys, the period between 14-17 approximately (slightly younger for girls) is called adolescence, i.e. you are an adolescent. In law you are an adult at the age of 18, but many people think of you as an adult when you leave school.

    1. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.

date approve mature attracted romantic

keen break off go out relationship drift apart

Ann was a very (a)________ girl who often dreamed of love and marriage. She was especially (b) ______ to a young man called Michael, who worked in the same office as she did, and he was very (c) ______ on her too. They became friendly and one day Michael asked her to go out with him. Their first (d) _________ was a visit to the cinema, and they both enjoyed the evening so much that they decided to (e) __________ together regularly. Michael was a bit untidy and rather young, and Ann’s parents didn’t (f) ______ of him at first, but Ann was a sensible, (g) ______ girl and they had a lot of confidence in her. For a year or so everything went well, but then somehow they slowly began to (h) ____________, until finally they decided to (i) _____________ their (j) ___________.

    1. Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.

bride engaged bridegroom consent wedding

civil reception honeymoon propose toast

One evening, although he was nervous, Joe decided to (a) _____ to his girlfriend, Linda. She accepted his proposal, they became (b) ___________ and he gave her a ring. After a year they had saved enough money to get married (they were both over 18 so they did not need their parents’ (c) __________. Some people have a religious ceremony with a priest, but Joe and Linda decided on a (d) ___________ ceremony in a registry office. On the day of the (e) ______ Linda, the (f) _______, was very calm, but Joe, the (g) ________, was nervous. Afterwards, at the (h) __________, speeches were made and the guests drank a (i) _______ to the happy couple, who finally left for a (j) ____________ in Spain.

    1. Explain the difference between the following:

  1. to be fond of – to be in love with

  2. separated – divorced

  3. a fiancé – a fiancée

  4. mother – mother-in-law

    1. Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below.

in with out to of

  1. Bob and Leanne are going _____ together.

  2. Bob is going ______ ______ Leanne.

  3. He was too nervous to ask her _____.

  4. She’s very fond ___ him.

  5. We drank a toast ___ their future happiness.

  6. He fell ____ love _____ her at once.

  7. He’s getting married _____ Liz next month.

  8. She’s engaged ______ a policeman.

  9. His parents don’t approve ____ her.

  10. Have confidence ____ me!

    1. a) Read the text, paying attention to the bold-faced words and expressions.

b) When can a young person get married in Britain? Is the age of getting married different from that in Russia? What are the main steps a young person should make from getting engaged to getting married in England? In Russia?

At the age of 21, persons of both sexes in England come of age. Boys and girls are permitted to become “engaged” or betrothed when still in their ‘teens’. A boy can, with his parents’ consent, propose to a girl and then marry her before he is twenty-one years of age. As a pledge of good faith he presents his bride-elect with an engagement ring, which is worn on the third finger of the left hand.

In ordinary speech, a man who is engaged but not yet married to a lady, when speaking of her, will say: “My intended,” or “My fiancée”. The young lady, on a similar occasion, will say almost the same “My fiancé.

Generally, English girls receive no marriage portion (wedding dower) on marrying, as a man is obliged to maintain his wife and children himself.

On the day of the wedding, the bridegroom and the bride with the best-men and bridesmaids, family and friends, go to church for the wedding service. There they are joined in matrimony by the clergyman. After both have said individual vows like “I, (Bride/Groom), take you (Groom/Bride), to be my (wife / husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.”, they may wish to say something in unison such as: “Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you, For where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. May the Lord do with me and more if anything but death parts you from me.” Then they exchange wedding-rings, slipping them on each other’s ring-finger. These rings are to be worn for the rest of their life.

When the ceremony is over, all go back to the house, where the lady has been living, to the wedding breakfast. The prominent feature of the wedding breakfast is a highly-decorated “wedding-cake” (in some places of the US you can ‘rent’ a wedding cake now!). After the guests have drunk the bride’s and bridegroom’s healths, the happy newly-married couple (newly-weds) take leave and depart on their honeymoon or to their new home.

According to an old English custom, they get pelted at the moment of leaving the room with handfuls of rice or with old shoes and slippers which is supposed to bring them good luck.

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