Resemblance

Speaking

Try to find out whom your new friend resembles and answer similar questions:

1. A. You do look alike – your brother and you.

B. Yes, we have a strong resemblance between us.

A. Who do you resemble?

B. We look like our father.

2. A. Who does your sister take after?

B. She is the very image / picture of her mother.

3. A. Those two brothers are twins, aren’t they?

B. Yes, they are twins and as like as two peas in a pod.

4. A. Is there any likeness between your parents and you?

B. Yes, we have a strong resemblance between us.

5. A. How do you manage not to confuse your twin-brothers?

B. It’s easy if they are your brothers.

6. A. Do you have a strong resemblance to your sister?

B. No, we are quite unlike. To be more exact, we are dissimilar.

7. A. Who does his son take after?

B. He is a male replica of his mother. (only about men)

Exercise 1

Fill in the missing words:

When the child is born, all the relatives wonder, who he/she a) __________ like. Of course, it is very interesting to spot some b) _________ features, especially fathers go crazy about looking for some strong c) __________ between his appearance and his child’s. You can often hear suggestions like: “No, darling, he d) ______ like me”. “Oh, no, sweetie, he e) ________ after me!” but when a family has f) ________ , parents and relatives often g) _______ them, because they are as like h) ___________. In fact, it’s not the main point who your child i) ________ after, all loving parents just wish him good health and happy future.

Exercise 2

Give English equivalents for:

На ім’я, такий собі, псевдонім, відомий як, прізвисько, називатися на честь, носити чиєсь ім’я, вигадане ім’я, дівоче прізвище, ви схожі, я схожа на маму, плутати, дуже схожі, несхожі, змінити ім’я на, схожі як дві краплі води, сім’я без батька, змішана сім’я, генеалогічне дерево, прийомна дитина, двоюрідний брат, опікун, єдина дитина в сім’ї, заповіт, пращури, велика сім’я, родичі зі сторони чоловіка.

Age

 Reading

Read through these expressions relating to how old we are and what age does to us.

1900

a new-born baby

ten months old

nearly eighteen months old

a toddler

four next birthday

coming up to school age

at infant’s school

a schoolgirl

What ages are your children?

they are of the same age

1910

all those in the 9-11 age group

he had a happy childhood

he’s a nice kid

a teenager

In his youth

the agonies of adolescence

still a minor, legally speaking

a juvenile delinquent

she is still in her teens

congratulations on your coming of age

1920

a major

a call-up age

you have to be over 21

Miss June Hoskins, aged 22

In his mid-twenties

In his prime

at the age of 26 she got married

by the age of 26 she had lived in different countries

she is under 20

an adult

a grown-up

1930

don’t be so childish

he’s turned thirty

thirtyish

not a youngster any more

My aunt is 35 but she is taken for 25

36 years of age

I guess his age is 30

not as young as she was

approaching middle-age

the Under 40s Social Club

1940

on the wrong side of forty

my mother is 5 years my father’s junior

he looks young/old for his age

he looks his age

beginning to look his age

an ageing playboy

beginning to feel her age

I prefer mature people

she’s still got her girlish sense of humour

she is ageless