Тема 1. Мои родные

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Задания к тексту

I. Соедините государства (1-5) и города (штат, графство) (a-d), которые находятся в них. Определите, какое государство является лишним.

Countries	Cities
1.England [′iŋglənd] 2.Scotland [′skotlənd] 3.Australia [os′treiljə] 4.the USA [ðə ju: es ei] 5.India [′indjə]	A	Cambridge [ َkeimbridʒ ]- г. Ке׳мбридж London [′lΛndən]- г. Л́ондон Birmingham [′bə:miŋəm]- г. Б́ирмингем Yorkshire [′jo:k∫iə]- Йоркшир
	B	Edinburgh [′edinbərə]-г.́Эдинбург
	C	Melbourne [′melbən] -г.М́ельбурн
	D	Portland [′po:tlənd] -г. П́ортленд Oregon [′origən] -штат Орего׳н

II. Прочтите слова в рамке и употребите их в нижеследующих предложениях. Первое предложение дано в качестве образца.

parents, aunt, half-brother, grandfather, cousins, stepmother, husband, daughter

1. My mother and father are my parents.

2. My parents’ parents are my grandmother and ………..

3. My parents’ brother is my uncle and my parents’ sister is my…

4. The person you marry is your wife or……….

5. If you are married, your children are your son and ………

6. Your half-sister or………. has the same mother (or the same father) as you, but not both parents.

7. My mother or father remarries(re=again), so I have a stepfather or …….

8. My uncle’s (aunt’s) children are my ………….

Modern families

TEXT 1.

My name’s Mary and I live near Birmingham, in England. I live with my parents, my brother and my sister.

My grandmother lives *next door. My mum was born here in Britain, but my grandmother moved here from India in the 1960s when my dad was a little boy. My dad has two sisters - *Auntie Suzy and Auntie Rose. Auntie Suzy lives in the same street as us, and Auntie Rose lives in Birmingham, which is only 15 miles away. They're both married, and I've got five cousins. We see them almost every week. Someone is always visiting our house, or we go to Birmingham to see them. And two years ago we all went to India to see our family there.

NOTES

*next door- по-соседству

*Auntie- тетушка

TEXT 2.

I'm Ben, from Portland, Oregon, and my family is *a bit complicated! I've got a sister called Ella, but three years ago my parents got divorced and now both of them are re-married.

We live with my mom, Julie, and my stepfather, Bob. Bob's got a daughter called Daisy. But she doesn't live with us, she lives with her mom. My father's name is Pete. He and his second wife have just had a baby boy, Charles. So I've got a new half-brother!

NOTES

*a bit complicated- немного сложная, запутанная

TEXT 3.

I've got a sister called Beth. Our mum and dad are divorced, so we live with just our mum *in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.

Our dad has an apartment in the centre of town, and we spend *every other weekend there. After school every day we go to our grandma's house and have a meal there, because our mum doesn't finish work until six o'clock. She collects us at half past six, *except on Wednesday evenings when we go swimming with our dad. My name's Trudy.

NOTES

*in the suburbs- в пригороде

*every other weekend- через выходной

*except [ik′sept]- исключая, кроме

TEXT 4.

I'm Dan, and I live with my parents in Cambridge, in the east of England. We moved here when I was five because of Dad's job, but my mum comes from the north of England, and Dad comes from Scotland. I've got a grandma in Edinburgh and a granddad in Yorkshire.

And I've got two cousins who live near London, because that's where Dad's sister and her husband live. We see my cousins about three times a year, and we go up to Edinburgh every New Year, but I can't remember when I last saw my granddad in Yorkshire. He always sends me presents, *though!

NOTES

*though [′ðəu]- однако, тем не менее

(Elizabeth Sharman “Across cultures”)