Week 2. Families of the world

1. Glossary

2. Talk about your family tree. Text “Family life”.

3. Dialogue “Family photo”

4. Grammar: this/that, these/those

Glossary

aunt

brother

children

to be fond of

cousin

daughter

father

grandchildren

granddaughter

twice

grandfather

grandmother

grandparents

to be best-man

grandson

husband

mother

nephew

niece

foreigner

to be married

to hate

incredible

parents

sister

son

uncle

wife

hospitality

suburb

socialize

Here is the family tree of the Moon family

Clive Moon-Rose Harris

Cynthia Moon – Paul Baston

Barry Moon –Nancy Thomas

Colin Moon

Amanda Moon

Peter Baston

Exercise 1.Study the family tree, then write the missing words in the passage below. Choose words from the glossary:

Clive Moon married Rose Harris in September 1940. They had two ________ - a boy called Barry and a girl called Cynthia. Barry met his _____, Nancy Thomas, at university and they got married five years later. In 1974, their ________, Amanda, was born. The same year, Barry’s ________, Cynthia, met her _________, Paul Baston. She asked her ________, Barry, to be best-man at their wedding.

Not long after wedding, Nancy and Barry had a ______. They called him Colin. Barry’s ________, Rose and Clive, were thrilled. Now they had two ________. Soon they would three. In 1982, their second ______, Peter, was born. This also meant that Barry was now an _______ and Nancy an ________. Both were very fond of their new _______, Peter, and pleased that their own children now had a ________.

In 1992, Amanda’s 18^th birthday, the Moon family held a big birthday party. Amanda’s ________, Nancy, gave her a computer – something she had wanted for a long time – and her _______, Barry, paid for twelve driving lessons. Cynthia and Paul gave their ________ a personal CD-player, while her _______, Clive and Rose, gave her some money. As her ________ , Clive, said, “Well, it’s difficult to buy things for young people, isn’t it?”

Amanda’s _______, Rose, agreed. “Our_________ ’s taste in clothes is not the same as ours. So it’s much better to let her choose for herself, really.”

Exercise 2. Make up your family tree.

Text “Family life”

Kathy Papas, who lives in Sydney, Australia, talks about her family life. ‘My parents came here from the Greek island of Kalymnos in 1965. I was eight years old, the eldest of four children. We shared a house with three other families from Kalymnos when we arrived in Sydney. We were quite lucky – both my parents found jobs and after about 20 months here they bought a house. But life wasn’t easy for my parents. Language was a real problem and they never really settled down here. They missed their friends back home, Greek hospitality in general, and the closeness to nature they had on the island. In 1980 they moved back to Greece and my father died five years later.

My husband and I socialize almost entirely with our families – his sister and my brothers and their children – and other Greek-Australians. We meet in each other’s homes and sometimes we have a barbecue together. Most Greeks live in the suburbs to the east of Sydney so we don’t have far to travel to see each other.

We also send our three daughters to Greek classes twice a week after regular classes. They were all born here but a lot of Australians still tend to think of them as foreigners. This is perhaps the reason that we Greek-Australians stay together like a big family.

Exercise 3. Does she give the answers to these questions in the text? Write Y or N in the boxes.

1. Who’s the head of the family?

2. How many people live in Kathy’s home?

3. How many brothers has she got?

4. How often does she see her brothers?

5. Is Kathy’s family Greek or Australian?

Exercise 4. Read and act the dialogue

“Family photo”

(Erica is showing some family photos to a friend)

Erica: So this is my family having Christmas lunch…

Friend: Oh, right, is that your mum?

Erica: Yeah.

Friend: She looks so much like you… it’s incredible!

Erica: Everyone says that.

Friend: Her name’s Carol, isn’t it?

Erica: Mmm…

Friend: And that’s your dad?

Erica: My step-father.

Friend: Oh, I see… do you get on okay with him?

Erica: Oh yeah, he’s great, he’s been just like a real father to me and my brothers.

Friend: Oh, that’s nice.

Erica: Actually we haven’t seen much of him recently – he’s got a new job with this American company, and they are sending him abroad a lot.

Friend: Oh…

Erica: I don’t think he likes being away that much and Mum absolutely hates it, so I think he’s hoping that next year, when he knows the job a bit better, he won’t have to travel quite so much.

Friend: Umm, these must be your two brothers…which one’s which?

Erica: That’s Dan the elder one.

Friend: Mmm … he’s nice. Does he still live at home?

Erica: He doesn’t really know what he’s doing at the moment. He’s doing a computer in Manchester – he’s living with my aunt and uncle for while – but I don’t know what he wants to do after that.

Friend: And what’s your younger brother’s name … Tom?

Erica: Tom … yeah – he’s thirteen now.

Friend: Only thirteen? He looks older than that, doesn’t he?

Erica: I know, he’s growing up really fast, isn’t? He’s a lot taller than me now.

Friend: Oh, and this must be your granny – she lives with your granny – she lives with your family, doesn’t she?

Erica: Yeah … she’s getting a bit old now, poor thing. She hardly ever goes out of the house. It’s a bit sad really.

Friend: It must be quite difficult for your mum, too.

Erica: Yeah, I suppose it is, but she doesn’t seem to mind.

Grammar: This/that, these/those

Exercise 5. Give the sentences in the plural.

Example: This book is interesting. — These books are interesting.

That is an easy sentence. — Those are easy sentences.

1. That car is expensive. 2. This book is old. 3. That house is new.4. This is a fast car. 5. That’s a difficult text. 6. This test is easy. 7. This isan interesting story. 8. This tree is high. 9. That sentence is long. 10. Thisgirl is busy.

Exercise 6. Write the plural form and change the verb form

Example:

This car is new.	These cars are new.
That girl goes to my school.	Those girls go to my school.

1. This orange is very nice.

2. That student writes well.

3. That house is near the beach.

4. This book belongs to George.

5. That dog barks all night.

6. That computer is old.

7. This lesson is very difficult.

8. That person sings badly.

9. This exercise is easy.

10. This man works at my shop.