3. Family Life and Relations

Vocabulary1:

family man	семейный человек
a bread-winner	кормилец
nuclear family	семья, где есть оба родителя
one-parent family	неполная семья
extended family	семья, где живут несколько поколений
fall in love	влюбиться
to be up to ears in love	по уши влюбиться
to go out with smb.	встречаться с кем-нибудь
to make a date, to date	назначать свидание, встречаться
to propose to smb.	сделать предложение
to be engaged to smb.	быть помолвленным
to break one’s engagement	разорвать помолвку
newly-weds, just married	молодожены
marital bliss	семейное счастье
marriage certificate	свидетельство о браке
registry office	ЗАГС
prenuptial agreement	брачный договор
to marry for love	жениться по любви
a love match	брак по любви
to marry for convenience	брак по расчету
misalliance	неравный брак
to live together to cohabit (cohabiting couples)	жить без регистрации
to have a row	ссориться
to raise, to bring up children	растить детей
to have children by first marriage	иметь детей от первого брака
to adopt a child	усыновить (удочерить)
for family reasons	по семейным обстоятельствам
to be jealous	ревновать
to split up with smb.	порвать отношения
to break up	распадаться (о семье)
to support a family	содержать семью
to participate in fund-raising	участвовать в обеспечении семьи
to keep the house clean	содержать дом в чистоте
to help with the household	помогать по дому
generation	поколение
adults	взрослые
divorce	развод
tolerant	терпимый
a bachelor	холостяк
dowry [dəυəri]	приданое
spinster (old maid)	старая дева

Training exercises:

Ex. 1. Answer the questions:

• Are you a family man?

• Who is the bread-winner in your family?

• Do you live in a nuclear family, one-parent family or in extended family?

• Have you ever fallen in love? (have you ever been up to ears in love?)

• Are you going out with anybody now?

• Do you often date (make dates)?

• Has your boyfriend proposed you yet?

• Are you engaged to anybody?

• Do you know what marital bliss is?

• Where do people get married officially?

• Would you like to be married in church?

• Would you prefer to marry for love or for convenience?

• What is a misalliance for you?

• Do you often have rows with your parents? What are the reasons?

• Are you jealous?

• Do you think a husband must support a family and a wife only participating in fund-raising?

• Who keeps the house clean in your family?

• Do you help with the household?

• What are your duties in the family?

Ex. 2. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the underlined words and word combinations:

1. Many Russian women turn to marriage agencies for help to find a husband.

2. For many couples living together has replaced marriage in recent years.

3. Living together (cohabitating) can provide a chance for shared life without a shared bank account.

4. Research shows, that among older couples, cohabitation often follows divorce.

5. In early XXth century in many American families wives didn’t work outside the home. If she did it meant that her husband was not able to support the family.

6. Most women in Russia have to combine family and work outside the home (to juggle a career with a family).

7. When a husband arrives home from a tough day, all he wants to do is put his feet up and have a drink – the sort of thing a man always expects.

8. Instead he has to help with the household or attend to his children.

9. Many women have to cut short their working day to pick up their children from day care.

10. Parents don’t owe their children every minute of their day and every ounce of their energy, but they owe them a comfortable feeling about their body, as well as a sense of personal worth and self-esteem.

11. With increasing accessibility to the Internet, the process of Russian women emigrating for marriage has increased several times over.

Ex.3. Give words and phrases for the following definitions:

2. to win the affections with a view of marriage;

3. unsuitable marriage;

4. a woman whose husband died;

5. a woman, who has never been married;

6. a second wife of one’s father;

7. a child of an earlier marriage of one’s stepfather or step mother;

8. to take a child into one’s family (as a relation);

9. a man, who has never been married;

10. to educate, to raise children;

11. to put an end to a marriage by law;

12. man (woman) to whom one is engaged;

13. your father’s (mother’s) parents;

14. a jubilee after 25 years of marriage;

15. a circular band (often of gold) given as a token of love.

Ex.4. Translate the following sentences. Consult the list of words and expressions given below:

1. Это моя племянница со стороны матери.

2. Разрешите называть вас по имени, вы так молоды.

3. Почему ему дали такое прозвище?

4. Все члены семьи называли его Си-Си для краткости.

5. Он мой троюродный брат, в общем, довольно дальний родственник.

6. Мы считаем тетю Аню очень близкой родственницей, хотя в действительности она нам «десятая вода на киселе».

7. Ему перевалило за 60 хотя он не выглядит на свои годы.

8. Он на 10 лет старше меня.

9. Я семейный человек, я не могу работать так поздно.

10. Ему почти семнадцать, он вполне может поехать в деревню один.

11. В Америке подросткам продают только безалкогольные напитки.

12. Он на 5 лет младше меня.

13. Они поженились по любви, хотя все считают, что это брак по расчету.

14. Бабушка очень состарилась в последнее время.

15. Через 4 года я достигну совершеннолетия.

16. Они очень похожи, как две капли воды.

17. Ему было далеко за сорок.

18. Она принесла большое приданое.

19. Ребенок должен родиться в мае.

20. Она пережила своего мужа на 10 лет.