Dialogue 4. A: I’m going to visit Canada

A: I’m going to visit Canada. Can you tell me what language is spoken there?

B: English, of course. Don’t you really know?

A: Well, my friend said I could communicate with my knowledge of French in Canada, too. What do you think?

B: I’m not pretty sure about the whole country, but there are Quebec and New Brunswick where French is surely spoken.

A: I’ve got you. So, I need to brush up my French.

B: That’s right. French is spoken there as well. But I never knew you could speak French.

A: Truly speaking, I’m not good at French at all and before this business trip I’ll have to attend special language courses.

B: Use the Internet to find them. I’m sure there is a list of them there.

A: Thank you for your advice.

Exercise 11. Make your own dialogues with the following proverbs and expressions.

· America is called a “melting pot”.

· Saying and doing are two things.

· to use the American slang	· It’s awesome!
· host family accommodation	· purity of the language
· It’s splendid!	· to use personal tutor
· I don’t mind…	· try to use www.london-language-learning.co.uk
· to brush up smb’s English
· to offer a wide range of cultural activities	· to have some advantages of a language holiday

UNIT 4

ENGLISH FAMILY

Proverbs and sayings

Like father, like son.	Какой отец, такой и сын.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.	Пожалеешь розги – испортишь ребенка.
Marriages are made in heaven.	Браки заключаются на небесах.
A good wife makes a good husband.	Хорошая жена – хорош и муж.
Every family has its black ship.	В семье не без урода.

TEXT 1

ENGLISH FAMILY [3]

Years ago it was important to have large families. The best Victorian mother was the mother who had the most children. The best Victorian father was the father who had the most sons. It was important to have many children. If you were rich, you needed sons to help you with your work. Rich or poor, you needed daughters to help you with a large household.

Not only children were important. Everybody in the family was important. The large family gave people a sense of stability.

Now things are different. Young people leave the place where they lived with their parents and take their own families (wife and children) with them. Their own family becomes more and more important as they forget their other relatives.

In Britain, families are getting smaller and smaller. People have fewer children because children are expensive. Who can afford more than three children? Who can afford a large house for them? Many people believe that two children will be ideal for an English family. There is another problem now. Britain is a small country where 59 million people live. 12 million of those live in London. People can’t have big families when they live in a small country.

Now people get more and more isolated. Sometimes they live very close to other people but don’t know them. They have only each other to talk to. What is the future of the family?

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

to be important	быть важным
to be rich	быть богатым
to be poor	быть бедным
household	домашнее хозяйство
sense of stability	ощущение стабильности
to leave [li:v]	оставлять, покидать, уезжать
to live	жить
to become	становиться
relatives	родственники
to get smaller	зд. становиться меньше
fewer children	меньше детей
to be expensive	быть дорогим
to afford	позволять себе
to get isolated	быть изолированным
to live close to…	жить по соседству

Answer the questions.

1. What kind of Victorian parents were the best?

2. Why was it very important to have many children?

3. What gave people a sense of stability?

4. Are things the same or different now?

5. Why do young people leave the place where they lived with their parents?

6. Why do English people have fewer children now?

7. How many people live in Britain?

8. Do people get more isolated or communicative?

9. What are the reasons of people getting isolated?

10. What kind of family would you like to have?

Exercise 1. Give the English equivalents for:

· браки заключаются	· иметь больше всего детей
· помогать по хозяйству	· каждый был важен
· чувствовать стабильности	· уезжать из родительского дома
· забывать своих родственников	· становиться более важным
· становиться меньше	· будет идеально
· не могут иметь	· становиться более уединенным
· жить по-соседству	· будущее семьи
· быть богатым	· родственники

Exercise 2. Are the following sentences true or false? Give your arguments.

1. Years ago only children were important.

2. Britain is a large country where 150 million people live.

3. Young people leave the place where they lived with their parents and take their own families with them.

4. Sometimes people live very close to other people and communicate with them.

5. Many people believe that four children will be ideal for an English family.

6. In Japan people have a lot of children.

7. Nowadays the situation is the same, as it was before.

Exercise 3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1. Большая семья дает ощущение стабильности.

2. Люди не могут иметь большие семьи, когда живут в маленькой стране.

3. В Великобритании семьи становятся все меньше и меньше.

4. Могут ли люди иметь большие семьи, когда живут в маленькой стране?

5. Люди становятся все более изолированными, особенно когда они переезжают жить заграницу.

6. Сын моей сестры – мой племянник. Он любит кататься на роликах.

7. Моей старшей сестре 25 лет, она не замужем.

8. Не только дети важны в семье, каждый важен.

9. Кто может позволить себе иметь много детей?

10. Иногда люди даже не знают своих соседей.

11. Бабушки и дедушки очень важны. Они дают много любви и доброты всей семье.

TEXT 2

BETTY SMITH [4]

I am Betty Smith. My full name is Elizabeth Louise Smith. I am twenty-two. I am a college graduate. I am a writer, just a beginner, you know. I have a lot of friends. Most of them are my former school-mates. My best companions are two girl-friends. They are very kind, jolly and well-bred.

My brother-in-law, Henry Sandford, is married to my elder sister Helen. I am a member of her family. My brother-in-law is a doctor. He has a mother, but he has no father. My sister is a house-wife. They have only one child, Benny. Benny is my nephew, he is four. Sometimes he is naughty. He is fond of birds and animals. We have white mice, a hedgehog and a parrot in the house. Now Benny is eager to have a rabbit. But his mother is against it, we have no peace because of all Benny’s animals and birds. Pets are his passion, but not his Mum. Everybody knows it’s not easy to take care of pets, it take a lot of time and patience.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY

I am twenty-two.	Мне 22 года.
a college graduate	выпускник колледжа
I’m a college graduate.	У меня высшее образование.
just a beginner	новичок
former	бывший
school-mate	соученик, школьный товарищ
a fellow-student	товарищ по институту
companion	товарищ
girl-friend / boy-friend	подруга / товарищ, друг
jolly	веселый, славный
well-bred	хорошо воспитанный
elder / older	старший (о членах семьи) / старше
house-wife	домашняя хозяйка
naughty	непослушный, шаловливый
to be fond of smth; to like	любить, нравиться
to be eager	очень хотеть
to be against	быть против
peace	зд. покой
passion [‘pӕʃәn]	страсть, сильное чувство
pets	домашние животные
it is not easy	не легко
to take care of …	заботиться, ухаживать
patience [peiʃәns]	терпение
perception [pә’sepʃәn]	восприятие, понимание

Answer the questions.

1. What’s Betty Smith’s full name?

2. What is she?

3. Are her companion’s kind and jolly?

4. Who is Betty’s elder sister Helen married to?

5. Does Doctor Sandford have parents?

6. Is Helen a doctor?

7. How old is Betty’s nephew?

8. Is he a good child?

9. What’s he fond of?

10. Is Benny eager to have a dog?

11. What pets do they have in the house?

Exercise 1. Choose the necessary words from the box and put them in the sentences below:

to be fond of, companions, to help, afford, to talk to, household, to be married, to be eager, kind and jolly

1. Who … to have a rabbit?

2. Who can … more than three children?

3. Rich or poor, you needed daughters to help you with a large ….

4. My best … are two girl-friends.

5. They have only each other ….

6. If you were rich, you needed sons … you with your work.

7. Is Betty’s sister … to Doctor Sandford?

8. Their son … birds and animals.

9. Are Betty’s school-mates … and …?

Exercise 2. Translate sentences into English.

1. Кто муж твоей сестры? – Он врач.

2. На ком женат твой брат? – Он женат на моей подруге.

3. Мой племянник иногда бывает непослушным.

4. Кто любит птиц и животных?

5. Кто твои лучшие товарищи?

6. Почему его мама против змеи в доме, но не против ёжика?

7. У нас в доме нет покоя из-за всех животных моей младшей сестры.

8. Моя старшая сестра очень хочет завести белку или хомяка, это ее мечта.

9. Друзья моего сына – веселые и хорошо воспитанные ребята.

10. Вы против животных в квартире?

Exercise 3. Discuss in the group the following problems.

1. Family life is never an endless celebration.

2. Parents and children have different perceptions of the family.

Exercise 4. Speak on the topic «English family».

Exercise 5. Learn the following words and word combinations and use them in your dialogues.

Members of a family	Члены семьи
family	семья
parents	родители
mother / Mum	мать / мама
father / Dad	отец / папа
son / daughter	сын / дочь
sister / brother	сестра / брат
grandson / granddaughter	внук / внучка
grandparents	дедушка и бабушка
grandchildren	внуки
uncle / aunt	дядя / тетя
nephew	племянник
niece	племянница
cousin	двоюродный брат / сестра
husband / wife	муж / жена
father-in-law	тесть / свекр
mother-in-law	теща / свекровь
son-in-law	зять (муж дочери)
daughter-in-law	невестка (жена сына)
to be married	быть женатым
to get married	жениться / выйти замуж
to be single	неженат / не замужем
flesh and blood	родственник
to be related to smb.	быть в родстве с кем-либо
second cousin	троюродный брат
an only child	единственный ребенок
five-year-old	пятилетний
far-away	дальний, далекий
in the North of	на севере
as far as	так же далеко, как
come along	пойдем
it’s just the time	как раз пора

Exercise 6. Read, translate and dramatize the dialogues.

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