1. to show an interest in a.
2. an upper middle-class family b.
3. outgoing student c.
4. family atmosphere is warm and close d.
5. to excel in e.
6. close relationship with f.
7. to raise children g.
8. a voracious reader h.
9. to become a loner I.
10. to enroll in j.
11. feisty and combative k.
12. to become a lawyer l.
13. intellectual achievement m.
14. a very cozy home n. ,
15.charity o.
16. to pursue ones passion p.
17. to encourage r.
Answer the questions and tell about your family.
1. When and where were you born? Which family were you born?
2. How many are of you in your family?
3. Tell about your parents (e.g. education, career, marriage).
4. What is the atmosphere in your family?
5. Who do you have close relationships in your family with?
6. What were your excellences at school and not at school? What subjects did you do well at school?
7. What do you devote your free time to? What spheres do you show interest in?
8. Find all the adjectives characterizing a person. Which of them can you apply to describe yourself?
9. Where did you meet your friend? What common enthusiasm bonded you?
10. How different are you with your friend?
11. What do you spend your (with a friend) free time doing?
12. What field are you thinking of a career in?
4. Comment on the statement:
To find oneself at the right place at the right time.
Speak out.
Some kids were asked about their parents and about what makes a good parent
My parents.
What makes a good parent?
Erin: A good parent does things in the best interests of their children.
Megan: A good parent cares about you and whats happening in your life. A good parent knows what its like to be a teenager and sees out point of view.
Rob: I think a good parent is one who helps his or her children. They should teach right and wrong and be able to talk with their children. They should also support you in what you do and praise you for all the good things that you do.
Pain: A good parent is someone who cares but who is strict and wants their children to be successful.
Is there a different between the roles of mother and father?
Mireille: Yes, there is a difference. A mother teaches her child right wrong and manners. A father teaches a child to be strong and confident. This can also be vice versa. Iam describing my parents.
Vicky: Yes, a mother should be the one to comfort and a father should be the one to teach a lesson the old-fashioned way.
Caitlin: Well, there shouldnt be but I think there is. Most dads work, so the kids are at home with their mom when theyre little.
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Corey: No, because a mother can do everything a father can and vice versa.
Do you ask your parents for advice?
Megan: I ask my dad for advice about math and homework but my mother for advice about school, friends and life. Shes very understanding and Im really close to her.
Caitlin: Yes. For me, decision are hard to make, so I always ask for their advice.
Anne: Not really. I talk to them, but I usually go to my older sister for advice.
Corey: Something I do and other times its too personal.
Kevin: Yes, most of the time they are the only people I can talk to.
Kristen: I talk to my dad about things like boys and school friend problems. He usually gives me good advice.
If you have children, what will you do differently from your own parents?
Kristen: I wont ground my kids. Ill take them to concerts and theyll be allowed to have a separate phone line.
Kevin: I wont be as strict as my parents. Ill give my kids more freedom to do what they want.
Pani: I definitely wont make my kids do their homework before they do anything else.
Mireille: I wont be as protective as my parents. Ill trust my daughter to make the right decisions.
Imagine you can choose anyone famous to be your parents. Who will you choose?
Rob: Someone like Anfernee Hardaway. Hes a basketball player. Id like to live in a big house and go to see all the games.
Anne:Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, because they seem like cool people who really care about children.
Pani: My parents are much better than any famous person.
Kevin: Id like Bill Clinton and Tyra Banks to be my parents. Bill is very powerful and it might be cool to have the president as a parent. Tyra is very rich.
Erin: I wouldnt like my parents to be famous.
Should parenting skills be taught in school?
Erik: Yes. Too many young parents dont know the basics of parenting.
Erin: No. I think parenting is something you learn when you have children, with the help of your parents.
Vicky: Yes, because some kids in my school are messed up and they do stupid things.
Mireille: No. Its not something you just learn. To be a good parent you have to be like a friend.
Vocabulary
point of view
support
praise
strict
successful
difference
confident
vice versa
comfort
advice
close
decision
ground . ( )
separate
protective
trust
cool ,
powerful
messed up ,
- Read and try to remember the additional vocabulary.
old folks at home (old folks) (.),
son, daughter ,
senior son
junior son
eldest son (daughter) () ()
youngest son (daughter) () ()
elder brother (sister) () ()
eldest brother (sister) () () ()
younger brother (sister) () ()
youngest brother (sister) () () ()
ancestors [asnsistsz]
grandparents
grandfather (grandpapa, grandpa, grand-dad)
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grandmother (grandmamma, grandma, granny, grannie)
great grandfather (-mother) ()
descendants [disend∂nts]
grandchildren
great grandchild ()
great grandson (granddaughter) ()
relatives
first cousin [kΛzn] () ()
second cousin () ()
father (mother) in-law [lo:] , (, )
uncle (aunt(ie) [a:nt] ()
nephew [nevju:] (niece [ni:s]) ()
son (daughter) in-law [b:] (, )
husband wife
sister-in-law , ,
step-father (-mother) ()
step-child (step-son (-daughter) ()
step-brother (-sister) (half-brother (-sister) () ()
milk (foster) brother (sister) () ()
foster-father (-mother) () (, )
foster-child
godchild (godson (daughter))
godfather (mother) ,
bachelor
widow
widower
divorce, to divorce [divo:s] ,
to adopt
orphan [o:fn]
to descend [di'send] ,
age [id]
adult, grown-up
teenager
youngster
baby
toddler ,
aged, elderly
middle-aged
at the age of
to be over 30/40 30/40
to be in ones early/late teens
be in one's early (mid, late) 20s (25-26, )
Family word scramble.
1. ehfrta 6. rseits 11. maeirdr
2. mehtor 7. nuecl 12. fiew
3. hobrrte 8. tuan 13. dsbahun
4. ons 9. gandetohrrm 14. dntgarfehra
5. tuhgdaer 10. scunoi 15. famiyl
- Give the feminine forms of:
husband, uncle, boy, brother, bridegroom.
- Give the masculine forms of:
daughter, niece, grandmother, old maid.
- Answer the following questions.
What do you call your fathers brother? What do you call your mothers sister? Your uncles son? Your aunts daughter? Your sisters husband? Your brothers wife? Your brothers son? Your sisters daughter? Your fathers father?
- Give expressions for:
the anniversary of ones birth; the twenty-fifth anniversary of ones marriage; a woman who has lost her husband; a man who has lost his wife; a child who has lost its parents; the ceremony at which a child receives its Christian name; an unmarried man; an unmarried woman.
- Read the proverbs. Find their analogues in Russian and discuss them.
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish very gently. (Chinese)
It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rale ones family. (Chinese)
Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head. (Chinese)
A small family is soon provided for. (English)
In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind. (French)
The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside, you see that each tree has its own position. (Ghanaian)
Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family. (Jewish)
If the family is together, the soul is in the right place. (Russian)
The family that prays together stays together. (Traditional)
