- •Family and Family Relations
- •Notes: Favourite – Pet
- •Relative – Relation
- •Bride – Fiancee
- •Stage a Approaching the Topic
- •Betty Smith
- •Reading Skills
- •The Grey Family
- •The Tailor Family
- •Conversation Practice
- •1. The Family Photo Album
- •2. Introducing people to the members of the family
- •3. Visiting an English Home
- •4. Family Life in England
- •5. Marrying an Intellectual Woman
- •6. Engagement
- •Stage b
- •Vocabulary Practice
- •A Life in the Day of Linda McCartney
- •Английские семьи
- •Stage c
- •Stage d
- •Expanding the Topic
- •Critical Thinking
- •Wedding Superstitions
- •The Unicorn in the Garden
Stage b
Vocabulary Practice
I.
Choose the right word: elder – eldest – older – oldest:
Mr Black is … than his wife.
My … brother is in Brazil.
Which is the … of the two sisters?
Mr. and Mrs. Brown have five sons. The … son has just married.
The Hills have three sons. William is the … son and Henry is the youngest.
Who is the … in your class?
The Smiths have two daughters, Mary and Ann. Mary is the … daughter and Ann is the younger daughter. Mary is three years … than Ann.
Mr. Green is 95. He is the … friend I have.
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master – owner – landlord –landlady – host – hostess:
The slave-owners were known to be cruel … .
Yesterday I went to the Browns’ party. I was their guest and they were my … and … .
Maria Silva was not the … of her house, at the same time she was Martin’s … .
He asked the … if he had any rooms to let.
Who is the … of the house?
II.
Fill in prepositions or adverbs if necessary:
We shall tell you … a little English schoolboy, John Dale … name. He lives … his mother, father, two sisters and brother. Mrs. Dale, John’s mother, has much to do … home. She keeps house. She looks … her children. She brings them … very well. Mary is the eldest … all the children. John and his brother Henry are … the same age, they are twins. John looks … his grandfather and is named … him. He and his brother attend school, they go … school every morning. Does John go … … sports? Yes, he does. He likes to play football most … all.
The last day … March was quite a usual day. Some people went … work, others went … a walk. Children ran … school or played their games, and … Dublin, the capital … Ireland, a child was born … a large family. It was a boy, and his parents called him John. When the child was three, his mother was forty years old. Many years ago she met Michael Casside … Dublin where he was looking … a job. Soon they fell … love … one another and married. Michael was a very clever man. He had not any regular education but he was fond … books and spent all his free time reading one book … another, and even managed to learn Latin. The neighbours … Michael Casside thought that he was a great scholar, though he worked … a clerk … a little office.
c) … the letter Jean wrote that Harold and she would be married … the 5th … July and they intended to go … Scotland … their wedding-trip. The wedding took place this morning; the bride looked very nice … her wedding-dress, trimmed … lace. She wore a small bunch … orange blossoms … her hair. The bridegroom walked … his mother and one … his friends acted … best man while the four bridesmaids accompanied the bride. … the ceremony the newly-married couple received the congratulations … their friends.
d) The old man’s will ran the following: “Being aware that my end is approaching I feel my dear little daughter Mary will be left unprotected … any natural guardian. Now I will and desire that my wife Olivia shall act … guardian adviser and mother to my little daughter. And as she will be an heiress … a very large property I would wish her to be guided … the advice … my wife … the management … her property and particularly … the choice … a husband. (M.E. Braddon)
III.
Insert articles where necessary and write questions about Linda’s family to ask your partner. Reproduce the contents of the text in class.