Talking points

Speak on the following situations.

1. Nuclear and extended families.

2. What family would you like to have in future?

3. Advantages and disadvantages of being the only child in a family.

4. Draw your Family tree; tell about your relations and ancestors.

5. Compare Russian and American families.

6. The role of families in the society.

7. Civil marriages, advantages and disadvantages.

8. Happy families Do they exist?

9. Big families, consisting of many children become unpopular nowadays.

10. Childless families appear in the society.

Make up dialogues on the given situations:

1 Two people are in a train. They are speaking about themselves and their families.

2 Two grandmothers are talking about their grandsons .One of them is a pupil, the other is a student.

3 Showing your family album to your friend.

4 Prove your friend that it is better to have many sisters and brothers than to be an only child in the family.

Comment on the proverbs and sayings. Make up a situation centered round one of them.

1. Good name is better than riches.

2. As like as two peas in pod.

3. Blood is thicker than water.

4. He that has no children knows not what is love.

5. Love in a cottage.

6. Love me, love my dog.

7. Marriages are made in heaven.

8. Marriage goes by contrasts.

9. Out of sight, out of mind.

10. They are hand and glove.

Additional exercises

Ex. 1. Rewrite the sentences, choosing the correct word in brackets:

1. Most young people (eventual/eventually) get mar­ried.

2. She sings (beautiful/beautifully).

3. The train arrived (late/lately).

4. Many people (hard/hardly) ever meet their uncles, aunts, and cousins.

5. I can't jump so (high/highly).

6. It is quite (common/commonly) for close relatives to live in different parts of the country.

7. Have you travelled by train (late/lately)?

8. He (hard/hardly) ever does any work.

9. I hit him very (hard/hardly).

10. He (hard/hardly) knew what to say.

Ex.2. Choose the correct Russian equivalent for «order» in the sentences:

1. People do this in order а.. для того чтобы

to change jobs. б. в порядке

2. He left his affairs in order, в. какой-то порядок

3. My phone is out of order. г. в строгом порядке

4. Some teachers find if д. не в порядке

difficult to keep order e. поддерживать порядок

in their class. ж..приказано

5. The troop retired in з. по приказу

good order.

6. He is under the order

to leave the country.

7. In order to see him I flew

to New York.

8. He brought his girl-friend

in order that we should meet her.

9. Get your ideas in some

kind of order.

10. The work was done by

order of the king.

Ex.3. Fill in the gaps with the words from the list below.

Example: As pretty as a picture. As sour as a lemon

As _____as a lion.

As weak as a kitten.

As _____as a shadow.

As hungry as a bear.

As _____as lead.

As steady as _____.

As blind as ­­­­­­­_____.

As cool as a _____.

As _____ as sin.

As happy as a grin.

As sly as _____.

As _____ as ox.

As solid as _____.

As full as a tick.

As light as a feather.

As uncertain as ______.

As deaf as a post.

As warm as ______.

Toast; ugly; bat; brave; heavy; strong; the weather; fox; thin; a brick; a cucumber; a rock.

Ex. 4. Rephrase the following sentences. Use must instead of modal words.

Example: Surely they have left already. They must have left already.

1. Her shoes evidently pinch her, she can hardly walk. 2. Surely the boy recognized you at once. 3. It was undoubtedly raining when you left. 4. She is probably good at chemistry. 5. They were probably having dinner when I phoned them. 6. Surely she has finished typing by this time. 7. Surely he is looking for his glasses again. 8. No doubt you are run down, you look pale. 9. Su­rely she is still typing. 10. She is probably in her office now