Building-up your vocabulary. 2. 1. A) study the nouns denoting the most important relatives. B) make up a story, explaining the meanings of all the words from the chart

2.1. a) Study the nouns denoting the most important relatives. b) Make up a story, explaining the meanings of all the words from the chart. You can start the story like in the model below.  

When two persons are married, the man is called the husband, the woman becomes his wife. When a child is born in the family, the father and the mother of the child are called parents. A family usually consists of a father, a mother and children – sons and daughters or both …

	male	female
your parents’ parents	grandfather	grandmother
your grandparents’ parents	great-grandfather	great-grandmother
your parents’ brother and sister	uncle	aunt
your aunt’s/uncle’s children	cousin	cousin
your parents’ cousins’ children	second cousin	second cousin
the father and mother of the person you marry	father-in-law	mother-in-law
the brother and sister of the person you marry	brother-in-law	sister-in-law
your brother’s /sister’s child	nephew	niece
the person you marry dies, so you are a …	widower	widow
your mother or father remarries, so you have a …	step-father	step-mother
a husband or a wife	spouse	spouse
if both parents die, an orphan (=parentless child) may be adopted by a …	foster father	foster mother
your sister or brother	sibling	sibling
a person you are descended from, especially one who lived a long ago	forefather	-

	2.2. Complete the sentences with the correct word or word combination.

1. My ________’s name is Carol.

a) father b) mother c) brother 2. She was married to my ______________. a) father b) grandmother c) husband 3. My mother and father like flowers; my _____________ like flowers. a) families b) parents c) siblings 4. My mother married again. Her new husband, Tom, is my ________. a) spouse b) father-in-law c) step-father 5. My mother has a daughter; she is my _____________. a) niece b) cousin c) sister 6. She is twenty years old and I am twelve. She is my _________ sister. a) elder b) aged c) older 7. My mother’s son is only ten years old. He is my ________________. a) younger sibling b) youngest c) younger brother 8. My mother’s new husband Tom has a daughter who is five. She is my ____. a) sister-in-law b) step-sister c) younger sister 9. My mother’s parents and my father’s parents are my ______________. a) grandparents b) great-grandparents c) forefathers 10. My grandparents’ parents are my _____________________. a) grand-grandparents b) great-grandparents c) greatparents 11. My mother has a sister, Azza. She is my ______________. a) grandsister b) niece c) aunt 12. Azza’s husband is my ___________. a) grandbrother b) uncle c) aunt 13. Their daughter is my _____________. a) niece b) nephew c) cousin 14. My elder sister has two children. Her little boy is my _______. a) niece b) nephew c) cousin 15. My sister’s daughter is my _______. a) cousin b) niece c) grandsister 16. The son of my mother is the ________ of my grandparents. a) grandson b) uncle c) nephew 17. My grandfather’s sister’s son is my mother’s ______________. a) uncle b) nephew c) cousin 18. My sister is married. Her husband is my ___________. a) brother-in-law b) step-father c) uncle 19. The father of my sister’s husband is her ___________. a) uncle b) step-father c) father-in-law 20. The daughter of my father is the ________ of his parents. a) step-daughter b) niece c) granddaughter

	2.3. Fill out these charts in English.

РОДСТВЕННИКИ
ДЛЯ ЖЕНЫ	ДЛЯ МУЖА
свёкор	отец мужа	тёща	мать жены
свекровь	мать мужа	тесть	отец жены
деверь	брат мужа	свояченица	сестра жены
золовка	сестра мужа	шурин	брат жены
свояк	муж золовки	свояченица	жена шурина
свояченица	жена деверя	свояк	жениной сестры муж
ДЛЯ РОДИТЕЛЕЙ, СЕСТРЫ, БРАТА
невестка	жена сына, жена брата
зять	муж дочери, муж сестры
сват	отец невесты/ки, отец зятя, жениха
сваха	мать зятя, мать невестки

2.4. In English there are special words to describe different stages of human life. Find the Russian equivalent to each stage and think of a relative or friend to match each stage.  

AgeStage 0-1 approximately a baby 1-2 a toddler 2-12 approximately a child – this period is your childhood13-17 approximately a teenager (14=early teens)18+ an adult (a person comes of age)20-30 in your twenties ( 24-26 = mid-twenties) 30-40 in your thirties (38= late thirties)40+ people are middle-aged; in middle age 60 or 65 retirement (= when people stop work; they are retired)75+ old age (you can also say elderly)

Note: For boys, the period between 14-17 approximately (slightly younger for girls) is called adolescence, i.e. you are an adolescent. In law you are an adult at the age of 18, but many people think of you as an adult when you leave school.

2.5. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct place in the passage below.  

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