2.2 Look through the text and define the meaning of the words in bold type.

3. VOCABULARY EXERCISES

3.1 Translate the following international words without a dictionary.

Group, physical, moral, to start, special, to classify, type, biological, to concentrate, career, to organize

3.2 Look through the text, pick out words with word-building affixes, define which parts of speech these words are and be ready to do word-building exercises below.

3.3 Make adjectives with the help of the given suffixes, define the parts of speech to the stem of which these suffixes are added and translate all the words into Russian:

- al biology, philology, mathematics, physics, politics, history, culture, nature, tradition

- ent to differ, to depend, to excel (превосходить), to insist (настаивать)

- ful delight, beauty, help, care, success, youth, power, use, pity, joy, colour, hope

- less child, mother, father, hair, end, help, care, power, use, pity, colour, hope, law

3.4 Define the part of speech the following words with the suffix –ive belong to. Translate the words into Russian.

Adoptive, supportive, positive, negative, demonstrative, descriptive

3.5 Make nouns from the following words with the help of the given suffixes. Define the parts of speech to the stem of which these suffixes are added. Translate the words into Russian.

- tion to relate, to generate, to concentrate, to add, to classify, to adopt, to organize

- ment to achieve, to delight, to place, to replace, to arrange, to enjoy, to govern

- ness happy, dark, ill, busy, kind, weak, sad, friendly

- ship relation, friend, member,citizen, leader

- ity responsible, real, individual, actual, electric, public, possible, humane

3.6 Give English equivalents of the following verbs, all of which have one and the same prefix.

Жениться еще раз, переставить, переделать, переписать, пересказать, вновь собрать, вновь сыграть, реформировать, реконструировать

3.7 Fill in the correct family member.

1. My mother’s sister is my ___________ . 2. My daughter’s brother is my ___________ . 3. My father’s daughter is my ___________ . 4. My mum and dad are my ___________ . 5. My sister’s son is my ___________ . 5. My aunt’s son or daughter is my ___________ . 6. My father’s brother is my ___________ . 7. My mother’s father is my ___________ . 8. My daughter’s son is my ___________. 9. My brother’s daughter is my ___________ .

3.8 Write down the term for the opposite sex.

mum -

brother -

son -

uncle -

grandmother -

granddaughter -

nephew -

wife -

boyfriend -

cousin –

3.9 Write one word in each gap.

1. Your female child is your ___________.

2. A person who is your brother’s wife is your ___________ .

3. Nick’s sister has a son whose name is Mike, so he is Mike’s _____________ .

4. Your husband’s mother is your ___________ .

5. The persons who are your parents’ parents are your ___________ .

6. Your son is married, so his wife is your ___________ .

3.10 Say who are all these people to Fiona and speak about the whole family.

3.11 Define the type of the family.

1. We are many. All the members of our family have close relations. We live together.

2. They have the only child who is in the centre of their attention.

3. We are many. We share our parents’ attention.

4. We enjoy doing many things together with our grandparents who live with us.

5. There are only two of us. We do everything together.

6. When I have a problem I can always find a person to discuss it with.

7. Sometimes I feel a lack of one parent badly.

8. My father is my best friend. But I have no mother. She is dead. I have a stepmother.

9. They are good parents but all their children are adoptive.

10. They are unhappy because there are no children in their family.