Family Relations
Your father and mother are husband and wife. They are your parents. They have children boys and girls. The boys are their sons and the girls are their daughters. The girls are the sisters of the boys, who are their brothers. Your father's and mother's parents are your grandparents. They are your grandfather and grandmother, they have grandsons and granddaughters. Your father's and mother's sisters and brothers are your uncles and aunts and they have nephew s and niece s. Their sons and daughters are your cousins. All of them are your relatives or relations.
If you are married, your wife's (husband's) relatives are in-laws, for instance (), mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, etc. This relationship lasts all your life, unless you divorce your wife (husband).
Vocabulary:
1) mother-in-law ,
2) father-in-law ,
3) nephew ['nevju]
4) niece
5) sister-in-law ,
6) brother-in-law ,
7) divorce
8) married ,
Exercise 13. .
1. Your parents parents are your ___ and your ___.
2. Your fathers brother and sister are your ___ and your ___.
3. Your aunts and uncles children are your ___.
4. Your brothers son and daughter are your ___ and your ___.
5. Your childrens children are your ___ and your ___
6. My mother has three sisters, so I have three
7. I have many uncles and aunts, so I have many
8. My fathers father is my .. Hes got married nearly 50 years ago. His . is my .
9. My sister Charlotte is married, too. Peter is her.
10. Charlotte and Peter have a little girl, Elizabeth. She is my.
11. Grandparents, parents, children, uncles, aunts: people live together with a large number of relatives, big families, so-called ..
12. My..(mother and father) are my best friends.
Exercise 14. .
mum -
brother -
son -
uncle -
grandmother -
granddaughter -
nephew -
wife -
boyfriend -
cousin
Exercise 15. .
1. I ___________ with my parents and all of us ___________ of each other. 2. My ___________ are my best friends and we never ___________. 3. He is a bad father, he doesnt feel ___________ for his family. 4. I have many uncles and aunts so I have many ___________. 5. My mother is going to marry again, so Ill have a ___________. 6. I ___________ my room with my sister. 7. My grandfathers ___________ is my grandmother. 8. They ___________ adoptive children but they love them very much. 9. My sister ___________ but I know that she doesnt love her ___________. 10. Small families, so-called ___________ are typical for most European societies. 11. If parents ___________, children are left with a mother or a father only. 12. She is in a bad ___________ today. 13. Family relations ___________ on many things. 14. He does everything ___________ to be happy. 15. How many members does your family ___________ of?
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Responsibility, stepfather, get on well, share, mood, take care, siblings, consist, are divorced, bring up, nuclear families, depend, husband, in order, relatives, wife, is married, quarrel
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CONVERSATIONAL TOPIC
LIVING CONDITIONS
Exercise 16. .
Our flat is on the sixth floor of a big twelve-storey building. In our flat we have three rooms, a kitchen, a hall, a bathroom and a toilet. The first place you get to when you enter our flat is the hall. It is rather large. To the left of the entrance door there is a hall-stand, where we hang our overcoats and put our hats when we take them off. To the right of the entrance door there is a large mirror with a little table under it.
Our living-room is large. The floor of our living-room is yellow, the ceiling is white, the walls are blue. The curtains on the windows are brown.
There is a large brown sideboard in our living-room. It is at the wall to the right of the door. In the sideboard there are many plates, cups and glasses. There are some fine vases in the sideboard, too. There is a cosy red sofa in our living-room. It is 8 at the wall to the left of the door. There are some cushions on the sofa. There is a little black coffee-table in front of the sofa. There are some newspapers and magazines on the coffee-table. We have a large colour TV-set in the living-room. It is in the corner of the room on a little table. There is a big vase on the TV-set. There are usually some beautiful flowers in the vase. There are two cosy armchairs in our living-room. They are in front of the TV-set. There are some fine pictures on the waifs of our living-room. We usually spend our free time in the living-room, reading, talking or watching TV. We receive our guests in the living-room, too.
Our bedroom is not very large. The walls of our bedroom are pink, the curtains on the window are yellow. In our bedroom we have two beds. There is a little bedside table between the beds. There is a large yellow wardrobe in our bedroom. It is at the wall to the right of the door. There are some clothes in the wardrobe.
In the corner of the bedroom there is a small dressing table with a mirror over it.
Our study is small. The walls of our study are brown, the curtains on the window are green. In our study we have a little writing-desk. It is in front of the window. There are some pens, pencils and exercise-books on the writing-desk. There is a large brown bookcase in our study. It is at the wall to the left of the writing-desk. There are many books in it.
Our kitchen is small. There is a refrigerator in the kitchen. The refrigerator is white. There is a gas-cooker in the kitchen. The gas-cooker is black.
There is a cupboard at the wall and a little table in the middle of the kitchen. There are some stools round the table.
In the kitchen we cook, have our meals and wash the dishes.
Vocabulary
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a five-storey building
a lift
a hall
a mirror
a hall-stand
furniture
a square table
a round table
a writing-desk
a coffee table
a cupboard ,
a sideboard
a wardrobe
a bookcase
a bookshelf
a cosy sofa
a thick carpet
a cushion
a ceiling
a curtain
a bedside table
a dressing table
a wall lamp
a floor lamp (standard lamp)
a wall-unit ()
a piano
a living-room
a bedroom
a study
a kitchen
a bathroom
a toilet
in front of
to the right (of) ()
to the left (of) ()
in the middle
opposite
near
in the corner
between
behind ,
moved into the new flat
a house-warming party
all modern conveniences
a multi-storey house
convenient
Exercise 17.
1. What floor is the Browns' flat on?
2. How many rooms are there in it?
3. Where is the TV-set? What is there on the TV-set?
4. How many armchairs are there in the Browns' living-room?
5. How many beds are there in the bedroom? What is there between the beds?
6. Where do they keep them? Where is the bookcase?
7. What do the Browns have in their kitchen?
8. What colour is the refrigerator? What colour is the gas-cooker?
