4. Answer the following questions:

1. How many people are there in Svetlana’s family?

2. How old is her father? What is he? What does he like?

3. How old is her mother? What is she? What are her interests?

4. How old is her brother? What is he?

5. Does Sveta have a grandmother? What does she do?

5. Read Ex.3 again. Fill in the missing words:

1. I was born .......

2. We are a family of ........

3. We are happy together and ....... all right.

4. My father is very ........ person.

5. He often works .........

6. He is a ....... in our family.

7. My mother is rather ...... and ...........

8. She is a ............ woman of about 40.

9. Boris is my ........ brother.

10. They have got a child, my .......

11. My grandmother is ........ now.

12. I must admit, she is very ....... person.

6. Choose the correct word to fill the gap in each sentence.

Step-brother, single, bachelor, orphans, elderly, widow, great-grandparents

1. Richard was a ....... until his marriage at the age of forty-two.

2. Mary changed her job in order to be closer to her ...... parents.

3. When John’s mother remarried, he found he had three ..........

4. The war left many children ........

5. All the family are long-lived, in fact three of my ....... are now in their nineties.

6. Barbara remained .... until the age of thirty-five.

7. Say “True” or “False”:

1. She is the daughter of my mother. She is my cousin.

2. She is the sister of my mother. She is my sister-in-law.

3. He is the son of my mother. He is my brother.

4. He is the brother of my mother. He is my uncle.

5. She is the sister of my father. She is my grandmother.

6. He is the father of my father. He is my great-grandfather.

7. She is the mother of my mother. She is my grandmother.

8. She is the mother of my sister. She is my aunt.

9. He is the father of my brother. He is my uncle.

8. Translate the following dialogues:

• Мері – Ваша сестра?

• No, she isn’t. She is my cousin. Do you know her?

• Так, вона дуже вродлива. Вона одружена?

• No, she isn’t. She is single.

• Who is that man?

• He is my father.

• Він дуже молодо виглядає.

• What’s he?

• Він - архітектор.

• Do you have small children?

• Ні. Вони вже дорослі. Сину -25, донька –підліток. Їй 14 років.

• Is your son married?

• Yes, he is.

9. Give definition to the next words and word combinations.

Model: -grandfather

My grandfather is my mother’s father or my father’s father.

Grandmother, uncle, aunt, sister-in-law, niece, nephew, cousin, widower, bachelor, step-father, orphan, a nuclear family, an extended family, a single parent family.

Заняття 1.3

Шлюб і родина

1. Read and learn the following words:

wedding	Весілля	To excite	Збуджувати, хвилювати
veil	Фата	Shortage	Брак, нестача
decrease	Спад, зменшення	Misunderstanding	Непорозуміння
experience	Досвід	Groom	Наречений
regard	Повага, відношення	Bride maid	Свідок (нареченої)
generations	Покоління	Best man	Свідок
authorize	Дозволяти, уповноважувати
divorce	Розлучення
quarrels	Сварка
fresh-married	Молодята