Vocabulary:

Prenuptial - предсвадебный

Pristine – прежний, былой, чистый

Chaotic – хаотичный, хаотический

Bliss - блаженство

Allowance - разрешение

Savior - спаситель

Enterprise - предприятие

Mutual - взаимный

Fee - гонорар

Pregnant - беременная

Intensity - интенсивность

Exercise3. Read the text more carefully and answer the questions.

1. Find some things that Annie and Clifford have in common, and some things that they don’t have in common.

2. Annie and Clifford say that marriages fail because of arguments about money, behavior and children. Which of their rules refer to these four things?

3. Are the following statements true or false? Rewrite the false statements to make them true.

1. Clifford does all the cooking.

2. He prepares everything very carefully.

3. Their apartment looks messy but comfortable.

4. Annie misunderstands why Clifford touches her arm.

5. They want the contract to ensure an uncomplicated divorce if they split up.

f. There will be no alcohol at their wedding.

4. What are your impressions of Clifford and Annie? Which of the following words best describe your opinion of them? Why?

Sensible, weird, ridiculous, romantic, spontaneous, easy-going, warm and loving, cold and calculating, unbelievable

Exercise4. Find a word in the text with the same or similar meaning to the following.

• Boringly and seriously

• Perfect happiness

• Money paid as a punishment

• A plan of how money will be spent

• Time before marriage when a couple gets to know each other.

Make some sentences using the words.

Exercise5. What do you think?

Do you think the best couples ….

… should be of a similar age and background?

… should have a similar character and interest?

Exercise6. Make a list of top 10 of the best famous couples. You can use as the Kazakh and Russian celebrities as foreign ones.

Topical vocabulary:

Wedding bell: fiancée, bride, fiancé, bridegroom, spouse, newly-weds, honeymoon, marital status, bachelor, to be engaged, to be married, to split up, to tie a knot, widow, widower:

Family: blood relatives, siblings, pregnancy, baby, to have a baby, to be pregnant, toddler, teenager, adolescence, adolescent, one-parent family, a full-family, an out-of-wedlock child;

In-laws: to foster, to adopt, to bring up, to grow up, foster-parents, guardian, stepfather, stepmother, stepsister, stepbrother, Godmother, Godfather;

Relationship: to impress, to fascinate, to captivate, to respect, to look up to, to go steady with, to be close, to like, to fall in love with, to make date, to be fond of, to get on well, to keep in touch, to communicate, to stand each other, to loathe, to hate, to envy, to be afraid of, to ignore, to treat, to trust, to confide in, to admire, to look down on, to miss, to detest.

Vocabulary exercises:

Exercise1. Make a story using the words from the topical vocabulary.

Arrange the verbs below to describe a typical relationship. Compare your story with a partner’s one.

e.x. First you meet, then you …..

Argue break up fall in love

Get on well get to know each other keep in touch

Meet go out together stay friends

Exercise2. Look at the pictures, put them into the logical order and make up a sentence to express the story.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

1. Picture _______________________________________________________________

2. Picture _______________________________________________________________

3. Picture _______________________________________________________________

4. Picture _______________________________________________________________

5. Picture _______________________________________________________________

6. Picture _______________________________________________________________

7. Picture _______________________________________________________________

8. Picture _______________________________________________________________

9. Picture _______________________________________________________________

10. Picture _______________________________________________________________

11. Picture ______________________________________________________________

Exercise3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1.Это была шикарная свадьба, невеста выглядела потрясающе. 2. В западных странах подружкам невесты принято одевать одинаковые наряды. 3. После развода Дина и Карл не перестали общаться, и теперь они близкие друзья. 4. Ходят слухи, что самая красивая пара Голливуда Анджелина Джоли и Бред Пит разошлись. 5. Самым скандальным разводом назван развод Бритни Спирс и Кевина Федерлайна. 6. Приятной новостью была новость о том, что Мэри беременна, она должна родить к февралю. 7. Подростковый возраст – очень критичный для любого подростка. 8. Государство очень внимательно относится к усыновлениям наших детей зарубежными гражданами. 9. Опекуном маленькой Кэт была назначена ее крестная мама. 10. Когда мы встретились первый раз, он не произвел на меня никакого впечатления, но позднее я была очарована им. 11. Джон мой самый лучший друг с детства, мы относимся друг к другу как родные. 12. Моя сестра после замужества очень быстро поладили с родственниками своего мужа. 13. Молодожены в качестве подарка выбрали свадебное путешествие по Средиземному морю. 14.Мы переехали в новый район, я очень быстро подружилась с соседскими сверстниками, но мой брат терпеть их не может. 15. Мой тетя и дядя решили усыновить еще одного малыша. 16. Мой муж, когда мы познакомились, не замечал меня очень долго, но после одной вечеринки он пригласил меня на свидание; мы поженились спустя 4 месяца. 17.Я до сих пор восхищаюсь нежными чувствами моих бабушки и дедушки, для меня они идеал счастливого брака. 18. Глядя на ее подвенечное платье, Терри не могла не заплакать. 19. После 1969 года Британия была названа «столицей разводов Европы». 20.Шокирующей новостью стала новость из США, там растет количество семей с неполных семей.

Exercise4. Read a magazine’s article about how many children a family must have.

The Children

By C.Northcote Parkinson.

Knowing that children may be desirable, we need to decide upon their number. All thought rejects the only child, thus making two the minimum, just not enough to reach the population at its present level. A family having one boy and a girl is well-balanced. In case of a single illness or accident with a boy might extinguish the family’s male line, there is reason to have a reserve.

The large family of five or more is not generally desirable. Five children at an average interval of two years must imply a quarter of a century spent in changing nappies and supervising homework. This is justifiable only on the assumption that the children matter more than the parents. But why should this be assumed? There are instances, to be sure, where the fact is evident, but the theory that parents should always live for their children is absurd. That the child might be Isaak Newton is true, but the father might be Jonathan Sebastian Bach. To conclude that each generation must matter less than the next is ridiculous and will lead us nowhere …

All that is left for the child-oriented parent is the prospect of becoming a grandparent. This is merely an opportunity to make the same mistake again. It is true that a grandmother is sometimes the answer to the babysitter career, but this justifies her in making a baby-sitter career. Early marriage has changed the pattern of grand-maternity. The girl who marries at 18 will be about 37 when she becomes a grandmother. The only solution is to be less obsessed with children. Where mother and father devote themselves to parenthood, children gain a wrong notion of their own importance. Taking themselves too seriously, they feel that their point of view is significant; that the world of today is something which only they can comprehend; and that future of mankind depends on what they say and do. This sense of mission has led some politicians to believe that young people have a new maturity.