4. Enter the correct word to build expressions related to family relationships.

1. Your …..- brother or sister has only one of the same parents as you.

2. Your family circle are your close ……..

3. If you are an ….. child, you have no sisters or brothers.

4. ……… families where the mother or father is bringing up the children on his/her own.

5. The children of your uncles and aunts are your ……….

6. A family ……… is a drawing that shows the relationships between the different members of a family.

7. Your grandmother’s and grandfather’s parents are your …………………...

8. Someone’s second husband will also refer to his wife’s children as their …………..

9. When two people (a man and a woman) are married they are …………….

10. The best man at a …………… ceremony is the male friend or relative of the bridegroom.

11. Your sister-…………. is the sister of your wife or husband.

12. A couple is always quarrelling have decided ……………..

Vocabulary practice

Multiple-choice quiz

Choose the correct answer to each question.

1. What is a family?

(a) a group of people linked by blood

(b) a group of people linked by blood, marriage or adoption

(c) a group of people linked by marriage

2. Which one of the following would describe the modified extended family in the

21^st century?

1. parents and dependent children living together

2. aunts, uncles and grandparents living in a household with adults and dependеnt children

3. adults and dependent children maintaining close links with other relatives who may not be living under the same roof

3. What is cohabitation?

(a) traditional families

(b) couples living together in a sexual relationship without being married

(c) couples living together before getting married

4. Which four of the following characteristics would describe a traditional family?

(a) with children

(b) equal pay for both partners

(c) a geterosexual couple

(d) a male breadwinner

(e) married

5. What does patriarchal mean?

(a) male dominated

(b) capitalist

(c) feminist

6. What is the modified extended family?

(a) a group of extended kin who live under the same roof

(b) a group of relatives who don’t live together but keep in regular contact

(c) parents and dependent children living in one household

NATASHA’S FAMILY

A You will hear Natasha talking about her family history. Listen to the first part. Then answer questions by writing.

1. Who has a very international family?

2. Who was born in Moscow?

3. Who had a castle in Belarus?

4. Who studied medicine?

5. Who married in Moscow?

6. Who was born before the Bolshevik Revolution?

7. Who escaped from Moscow?

8. Who died in Sweden?

Listen a second time. Then answer these questions, too.

1. Look at question 1 again. How many nationalities exactly does she have?

2. Look at question 2 again. When exactly was he born?

3. Look at question 3 again. Why exactly did they have a castle?

4. Look at question 4 again. Where exactly did she study medicine?

5. Look at question 5 again. Who exactly did she get married?

6. Look at question 6 again. When exactly was he born?

7. Look at question 7 again. Where exactly did she escape to?

8. Look at question 8 again. How many children did she have when he died?

B Listen to the second part. Then complete sentences 1-8.

When her company moved from Sweden to Germany she

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They decided that the Russians who had been expropriated would be

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M

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y great grandmother was supposed to receive

The brother of my grandfather was the one who designed

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After the war he met my grandmother and they

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They met in France and they decided

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So you are real mixture of

So you are real mixture of

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ell, my husband is

C A Family tree is a picture showing how people in a family are related. Write in the members of Natasha’s family.

Cloze practice

Match the words to their Russian equivalents