Lesson 1

1. About My Family and Myself.

• Reading and speaking.

You are going to read about the family of Yuriy Kostenko.

Pre-reading task.

1). Check the meaning of these words in your dictionary.

Introduce (v) son (n)

name (n) daughter (n)

school-leaver (n) twins (n)

parents (n) daddy (n)

kid (n) mum (n)

elder (adj) grandparents (n)

younger (adj) pensioner (n)

senior (adv) relatives (n)

married aunt (n)

husband (n) uncle (n)

journalist (n) cousin (n)

2). Make up questions and give answers.

Do you have	a family?
	a mother?
	a father?
	a sister?

What is	your	mother’s	age?
		father’s	name?
	his	sister’s	place of birth?
		brother’s	work?
	her	aunt’s	hobby?
		uncle’s

I	was born	(in what family?)
He		(when?)
My sister		(where?)

3) Ask the questions to have the following answers:

My name is Victor

He is fifteen

My family doesn't live in Poltava

Her mother is a doctor

We are fond of reading

Yes, I am. I am interested in history

I am going to enter the University

Reading

Read about Yuriy Kostenko.

About My Family and Myself. Part 1.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Yuriy Kostenko. I am fifteen years old. I am a school-leaver of the secondary school №2 of town Smila. My family lives in Smila in a private house. My parents have one more child besides me. Thus I have got my elder sister Tanya. She is 5 years my senior. So she is twenty already. She is a technologist by profession. She is married. Her husband is an engineer. They work at the baker's plant. They are three in the family. They have a daughter. So I have a niece. She is a lovely little kid with golden hair and dark blue eyes.

My parents are not old at all. Daddy is forty-four and Mum is four years his junior. My grandparents are already pensioners, but they are still full of life and energy. I have many relatives - aunts, uncles, and cousins.

Part 2.

My father is an engineer in computers and my mother is a teacher of English at school. They like their work very much.

I am fond of reading books on history and fiction. I go in for sports. I like playing football (soccer), basketball and chess. I take part in different chess competitions and tournaments.

This year I finished nine forms of the secondary school and entered the mechanical department of the technical secondary school of food technology. So I am a first - year student now. I am a full – time student. I like to repair different machines. And I shall work at the enterprise of our town as a technician-mechanic or I shall have my own workshop, my private business. Actually I study well. I am particularly interested in some special subjects, computers and in the foreign language. I am sure that English will help me greatly in my future life and work. I have the opportunity to continue my studies at the Institute or University and to become an engineer.