Exercises

I. Give Ukrainian equivalents to the following words and word-combinations:

a first-year student; a big house; a vegetable garden; various vegetables; fruit trees; an orchard; strawberries; to be married; to work as an engineer; to be an agronomist; a big and friendly family; to be together on holidays; a niece; a husband; a nephew; a wife; Christmas; Easter.

II. Cross out the words that don’t belong to these groups:

1) family, father, grandfather, grand-mother, month, daughter, son, niece, nephew, brother, sister, floor, uncle, aunt, cousin, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law;

2) crop, vegetable, plant, carrot, cucumber, sunflower, lamp, pepper, tomato, potato, desk, onion, garlic, cabbage, radish;

3) fruit, sweet-cherry, pear, apple, song, plum, apricot, rain, orange, cherry, grapes, tangerine, strawberry, raspberry, black / red currants, gooseberry;

4) Christmas, holiday, Easter, New Year, moon, Woman’s Day, celebration, wind, congratulations, presents, birthday party, guest, fireworks.

III. Match the antonyms:

village	single
big	the same
orchard	dislike
various	small
married	city
work	desert
live	separately
friendly	rest
together	hostile
like	die

IV. Match each word on the left with a word on the right and use these word-combinations in your own sentences:

friendly	orchard
big	house
little	student
various	garden
elder	trees
a first-year	sister
village	family
fruit	vegetables

V. Complete the sentences with an appropriate word:

1. My mother’s sister is my ............ and her brother is my..............

2. My uncle’s son is my ............ and my aunt’s daughter is my ..............

3. My father has a sister, his sister’s son is my..............

4. My mother’s mother is my ............. and my mother’s father is my ..............

5. My sister’s son is my ............. and my sister’s daughter is my..............

VI. What are your relatives?

Example: My father is a doctor

father	a farmer
mother	a pensioner
sister	a worker
brother	a dancer
cousin	an economist
nephew	an agronomist
niece	a doctor
aunt	a student
uncle	a pupil
grandfather	a housewife
grandmother	a computer operator
husband	a teacher
wife	a businessman