My family
Before I start talking about my family let me introduce myself. I’m Petro Klymenko. I’m 18. I’m a second year student at Kyiv National Linguistic University. I study foreign languages and in future I’m going to work as a translator and interpreter at an enterprise.
And now I am going to tell you about my family. It’s not very large. We are a family of four. There are four of us – my father, my mother, my sister and I. We are happy that we live together and we get on well.
To begin with, I want to tell about my father. His name is Volodymyr Ivanovych, he is 49. My father is good-natured, tall, thin and quite handsome. He is a hard-working and easy-going person. He is a university teacher. He gives lectures, takes classes and seminars there. He is fond of his students. They are of various specialities. They work in various fields. Some of them are biologists, others |
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– economists or physicists. What I don’t like about my dad is that he is always busy. He often works overtime, as he is a bread-maker in our family. My father is crazy about sports. He plays tennis, but his hobby is chess.
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My mother’s name is Svitlana Dmytrivna. She is three years younger than my father. My mother is very attractive, quite slender, blue-eyed and dark-haired. She is a very kind and understanding person. She is a good engineer and has a senior position at her office. She adores cooking very much. I must admit she is especially good at baking tasty apple-pies and cakes. |
Julia is my elder sister. She is eight years senior to me. So she is already 26. My sister works for a firm as an accountant and makes calculations on the computer. She is married and has two children. Her husband’s name is Victor. He is tall, dark-eyed and fair-haired. He is a serviceman. My sister and her family live in a small town not far from Kyiv. We sometimes go there on our days-off. I like playing with my niece and my nephew. They are very funny
and cute children. Mary, my sister’s elder daughter, takes after Julia. She is a blue-eyed girl with ginger hair. She is quite pretty, but a little hot-headed. She is keen on classical music. She loves playing the piano. My nephew Tom is fair-haired, brown-eyed and looks like his father. They are both interested in football and spend a lot of time playing football or watching matches on TV. |
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As for my grandparents, they are musicians. My grandfather is a violinist and my grandmother is a pianist. They adore playing the musical instruments and dancing. Now they don’t work. They are retired. They are obsessed with going to the country at weekends and enjoy working in the garden. |
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Moreover, I have a lot of relatives on my mother’s and on my father’s side. Some of my aunts, uncles, cousins and other distant relatives live in Odesa and Lviv. But my father’s elder brother and his family live in Kyiv, too. My uncle Borys works as a translator for a company. His wife Kate is a nurse. They have two children. Their names are Nick and Nelly. Nick is a student of the Polytechnic College. He is going to graduate from it this year. Nelly goes to school. She is in the tenth form. She leaves school next year. She is going to apply to the Engineering College. I suppose she wants to make a designer. Our families are very close and we like spending time together.
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In conclusion, to sum up, I want to say, that my family is my everything. We respect and try to take care of each other. I see my relatives as my best friends and I am happy that we are so united. |
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Pianist, engineer, musicians, cousin, daughter, senior, graduate, pretty, accountant, violinist, designer, niece, various, university, interpreter, enterprise, suppose, conclusion, handsome, translator, everything, piano. |
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висока темноволоса дівчина, блакитноокий старший брат, закінчувати політехнічний університет, працьовитий племінник, приваблива струнка
дружина, обожнювати готувати тістечка, бути годувальником у родині, на вихідні, працювати медсестрою,навчатися в 10 класі, поважати батьків, представлятись, закінчувати університет, працювати на фірмі, ставати дизайнером, піклуватись один про одного, бути на три роки старшим за батька, закінчувати школу, проводити час граючи у футбол, вважати батьків за кращих друзів (бачити у батьках кращих друзів), родичі по лінії мами, подавати документи до коледжу, працювати у різних сферах, працювати понаднормово, працювати перекладачем, студент другого курсу, родина з чотирьох осіб, добре ладнати, бути на пенсії, дальні родичі, бути на вісім років старшим за когось. |
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1. My sister is keen ___ playing chess. 2. His colleague is not ___ holiday now. 3. I am going to come ___ your place tomorrow. 4. They are teachers ___ German. 5. Are you going to apply ___ that university? 6. We live ___ London. 7. He doesn’t speak ___ French. 8. Ann works ___ a big company… Belfast. 9. Is Peter a student ___ this university? 10. July is ___ the third form. 11. Each year many students graduate ___ Kyiv National Linguistic University. 12. He
takes care ___his family. 13. There are 5 ___ them ___ their family. 14. They have two aunts ___ their father’s side. 15. I don’t go ___ school ___ weekends. 16. My grandparents are ___ pension. 17. My younger brother is fond ___ cooking. |
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