Существуют различные типы семей.

Вот они:

a. a nuclear family- малая семья (родители+дети)

b. an extended family- большая семья (родители + дети + родственники)
c. a single-parent family – семья, где один родитель
d. a couple who adopted a child – пара, которая усыновила ребенка
e. a couple with no children – пере без детей
Прочтите описание семей и определите, к какому типу они относятся.

1. We’re married with three kids. Our eldest son, Simon, has just started secondary school, our
daughter, Lisa, is eight and our youngest son, Luke, is only five.

2. We’ve only been married for a year. We’re not planning to start a family just yet.

3. I’m a single mum. I bring up my son Josh on my own. Josh doesn’t mind being an only child but I think
he’d like a brother or sister one day.

4. We share the house with my mother and father and my wife’s sister and her kids. Everyone helps to
look after all the children.

5. We couldn’t have children of our own so we decided that adoption was the only answer. Lily came to
live with us two years ago. She seems very happy at the moment but we realise that she might want to
find her real mother one day.

Вставьте в предложения следующие слова и фразы:

the whole family – вся семья

a very close family – очень близкая семья
a big family – большая семья
family tree – семейное древо
a big family reunion – воссоединение большой семьи

1. I come from … . I’ve got four brothers and two sisters.

2. We’re … . We see each other almost every day and if ever I’m in trouble, I know I can turn to one of
them for help.

3. It’s my son’s eighteenth birthday next week. We’re hoping to get … together.

4. My wife and I are celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary soon. We’re planning to have … .

5. When I was researching my … . I found out that my great-great-grandfather came over to England
from Ireland 120 years ago.

 MY FAMILY

Before I start talking about my family let me introduce myself. My name is Maxim, Max
for short. My full name is Maxim Nikolayevich Chernenko. Chernenko is my surname,
Maxim is my first name, and Nikolaevich is my patronymic. I am not yet eighteen. At
present, I am a first-year student. Our family is neither large nor small. I have got a
mother, a father, an elder brother and a sister. We live together in a three-room flat in
one of the new districts of Odessa. We are an average Ukrainian family. My father
Nikolay Ivanovich is 45 years old. He is a tall and well-built man with short black hair
grey eyes. He is an engineer. He likes his work and spends most of his time there. By
character my father is a quiet man, while my mother is energetic and talkative. Her
name is Olga Petrovna. She is a teacher of music and plays the piano well. My mother
always has a lot of work to do about the house and school. She is a busy woman and we
all help her. My sister Ann and I are twins. Like the mother Ann has blue eyes and
beautiful fair hair. She is a very good-looking girl. We went to school together. But our
inclinations differ. I want to be a philologist. I would like to be either an interpreter or a
university teacher. But Ann's ambition is to become a dentist. I know it's a pretty hard
job, but a rewarding one nowadays. She is a first-year student at the Odessa Medical
University, My brother, whose name is Michael, is nine years my senior. He is already
twenty-six. He works as a lawyer for a business firm. He married and has a family of his
own. They are three in the family. He has a wife and a daughter. The daughter is a lovely
little girl with golden hair and dark-blue eyes. The girl's name is Helen. She is only 12
months Her mother doesn't work, because she studies at the same university as do. She
takes economics as her major. Our family is united. We like to spend time together. In
the evenings we watch TV, read books and newspapers, listen to music or just talk
about the events of the day. Our parents don't always agree with what we say but they
listen to our opinion. All of us like to spend our weekends in the country. We often go to
the village where our grandparents live. They are aged pensioners now but they prefer
to live in the country. My great-grandmother is still alive, She lives in my grandmother's
family and is always glad see us. Her health is poor and she asks us to come and see her
more often. Also I have many other relatives: uncles, aunts and cousins. We are happy
when we are together.

To work about the house – заниматься домом

To help – помогать
To live – жить
Together – вместе
To chat – болтать
To read – читать
To watch – смотреть/наблюдать
To listen to – слушать
Big – большой
Small – маленький
1. У меня большая семья. Я живу с родителями, бабушкой, дядей и сестрой.
2. Моя сестра помогает матери заниматься домом.
3. Мои дедушка с бабушкой любят смотреть ТВ вместе.
4. Мой брать часто (often) болтает со своей двоюродной сестрой.
5. Каждый вечер (every evening) моя младшая сестра и я обсуждаем (discuss) то, как
прошел наш день.
6. Моя тетя живет вместе с нами. Каждый вечер она помогает моему старшему
брату делать его дз.
7. Я не люблю, когда(when) моя младшая сестра не помогает мне по дому.
8. Мы живем в большом доме (house). На первом этаже (on the first floor) живут
мои тетя с дядей и моя двоюродная сестра. На втором (on the second floor) мой
друг и его родители, а на третьем (on the third floor) моя большая семья.
9. У него нет братьев и сестер, он единственный (the only) ребенок в семье.
10. Каждый (every) понедельник мой отец отвозит (takes me to) в школу.
11. Ребенок моего дяди – мой двоюродный брат.
12. Мой двоюродный брат часто (often) навещает (visits) мою бабушку.
13. Ты часто навещаешь свою бабушку?