36. Read and translate the text an english family

The Confords live in Rugbu at 28 Coronation Street. John Conford is a rich businessman of about fifty. He is tall and dark. He wears dark suits but at weekends he wears casual clothes. He usually gets up at six, does some exercises and goes to the office. He never gets back before ten o’clock at night, so he doesn’t see much of his family. He is interested in collecting pictures of horses. At the moment he is travelling on business in America because he’s opening an office over there next year.

Sarah, Mr. Conford’s wife, is forty five. She is an attractive woman with blond hair and soft blue eyes. She is kind and gentle and full of common sense. Sarah’s a housewife. She looks after the house and the family.

The Confords have two children: a son and a daughter.Their son’s name is Steve. He is 22. He is a clever young man. He works at a design office. He is a very outdoor person – he is a keen sailor and a member of the local yacth club. When he has a chance Steve and his friends get down to the coast for the weekend, camping there and sailing in competition. He plays football sometimes for a Rugby team, but he prefers watching the game, either on television or at the local playground where he goes with his father sometimes.

Steve has a number of close friends and a beautiful girlfriend, Pauline, by name. Pauline studies at a teacher’s training college. Steve and Pauline often go out for the evening to the cinema or else they go to skating at the Rugby skating rink. Pauline is a very good skater and she is trying to teach Steve how to skate well. Both Steve and Pauline are very friendly and sociable. Sometimes Steve takes Pauline to a pub where they meet some of their friends and sit and chart for an hour or so and sometimes they go dancing to a Mecca Ballroom. Steve is very fond of Pauline and they are going to get married in a year.

Steve’s sister, Alice, is a lovely, quiet and serious girl. She goes to grammar school. She is a bright girl and does very well at school. Alice reads a lot, she is fond of music. She is good at drawing. She takes lessons at the local art school.

Sarah’s mother, Grandma, as children call her, also lives with them. She is in her late sixties. Her kind face is wrinkled, her hair is grey, but she is still quite young in spirit. She likes reading and gardening and she always goes for long walks. She is a very active person. Either she is making something or mending something or doing something to entertain herself. She’s extremely generous, but not very tolerant with the people who don’t agree with her.

37. Right or wrong.

1.Mr. Conford is an engineer. 2. Alice goes in for gymnastics. 3. Sarah is a businesslady. 4. Steve’s favorite game is football. 5. Mr. Conford is traveling about America now. 6. Steve and Pauline are close friends. 7. Pauline studies at the technical college. 8. Sarah’s mother is a very active woman. 9. Alice is fond of music. 10. Grandma is about seventy.