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Exercises

Ex.1. Look at the picture and then put the correct words in the sentences:

son aunt niece cousins husband daughter children

wife uncle sister nephew parents brother

1. Bill is Vera’s _____________, so of course she’s Bill’s ____________.

2. Bill and Vera have two ______________, Ray and Kate.

3. Ray and Amy have a ______________, Jill, and a ______________, Joe.

4. Joe is Jill’s _____________ and Jill is Joe’s _________________.

5. Di and Don’s ______________ are Kate and Bob.

6. Jill and Joe are Di and Don’s _______________.

7. Bob is Jill and Joe’s ________________. Kate is their _______________.

8. Jill is the ______________ of Kate and Bob. Joe is their _______________.

Ex. 2. Instructions as above:

grandson grandparents granddaughter son-in-law

father-in-law grandchildren grandmother sister-in-law

brother-in-law grandfather mother-in-law daughter-in-law

1. Bill and Vera have four _______________, Joe, Jill, Di and Don.

2. Bill and Vera are the _______________ of Joe, Jill, Di and Don.

3. Don is Bill’s ________________. Bill is Don’s _______________.

4. Vera is Di’s ________________. Di is Vera’s _______________.

5. Amy isn’t the daughter of Bill and Vera. She’s their _______________.

6. Bill is Amy’s ________________ and Vera is her ________________.

7. Kate isn’t Amy’s real sister. She’s her _________________.

8. Bob is Ray’s ________________ and he’s the _________________ of Bill and Vera.

Ex. 3. Give the following relationships:

e.g. Ray and Di = uncle and niece

1. Di and Don (e) Kate and Jill (i) Bob and Ray

2. Bob and Di (f) Ray and Don (j) Vera and Don

3. Vera and Ray (g) Bill and Bob (k) Bill and Jill

4. Don and Joe (h) Bob and Kate (l) Vera and Amy

Ex. 4. a) Ask your partner about his/her family and write some sentences about him and his relatives:

1. Have you got any brothers and sisters?

2. Have you got any cousins?

3. Have you got any nieces and nephews?

4. Have you got any grandparents?

b) Write down the names of some people in your family. Then write down their relationship to you in English.

Ex. 5. When were these people born and when did they die? Write sentences:

1. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 and died in 1506.

2. Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

3. Genghis Khan (1162-1227)

4. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

5. George Washington (1732-1799)

Ex. 6. Find a word or phrase opposite which means …

1. the name for a woman on her wedding day. bride

2. the name for a man on his wedding day.

3. what you are if you haven’t got a partner.

4. what you are if your marriage has legally ended.

5. a religious service for a dead person.

6. a holiday after a wedding.

7. what you are if your husband or wife dies.

Ex. 7. Fill the gaps with words from the box:

(1)…………… 1993 Anne got married (2)……………… Robert Smith. Unfortunately, Robert’s grandmother, Rosemary Smith, died (3)……………….. old age soon after their wedding. Robert and Anne were (4)………………… their honeymoon when she died. Anne’s baby daughter was (5)………………... two years later. They called the baby, Rosemary, (6)………………... Robert’s grandmother.

Ex. 8. In each column find the word with the more general meaning:

1. son 2. Orthodox 3. male 4. name

aunt Catholic female surname

parent religion sex pet name

relative Moslem lady nick name

Ex. 9. a) Give different meanings to the following words:

(to) name; (to) call; (to) place; (to) address; (to) trust

b) Translate the sentences, paying attention to the words which have the same

written forms but are used as different parts of speech:

1. They named their firstborn John. Can you name all the museums in the city? He knows all the students by name. Stop in the name of the law. 2. Call me Brian, by my Christian name. Give me a call when you come back. 3. Place the books in the right order. I can’t be in two places at once. His remarks were out of place. What place do you come from? 4. I don’t remember Ann’s address. Please, address your complaints the manager, not to me. Don’t address me as ‘general’. I’m only a major. 5. In God we trust. I trust him as I would myself. I don’t have any trust in what he says. He took this story on trust. He works for the trust company.

Ex. 10. Put the correct word into the gap:

Birth birthday born

1. What is your place of … ?

2. When is your … ?

3. I was … in Minsk.

4. She gave … to a healthy boy.

5. Where were you … ?

Die died dead death

6. Shakespeare … in 1616.

7. Her father’s … came as a great surprise. He was only 45.

8. Those flowers are … . Throw them away.

9. Every winter many birds … in cold weather.

10. A. – Is Henry Jones still alive?

B. – I’m sure he’s … . Didn’t he … about three years ago?

Married get married got married marry

11. A. – Are you … ?

B. – No, I’m single.

12. A. – Whatever happened to Anne?

B. – She … a man she met on holiday.

13. I’m never going to … . I prefer being on my own.

14. Darling, I love you. Will you … me?

15. We had a lovely wedding. We … in spring. There were a lot of flowers.

16. Did you hear? James and Lisa … last week.

Ex. 11. a) Look at the chart of events in the life of an English writer and politician

Jeff Rey Archer. Make a brief biographical account. You may start with the phrases:

At the age of six; After the publication of …;

After the collapse (крах) …; During the period of … .

b) answer the questions and prove your answers:

1. What can you say about J. Archer’s life?

2. Is he a famous writer?

3. Has he seen much of the world?

Ex. 12. Combine the following sentences to form the biography of Ernest

Hemingway. Reorder the information. Divide it into paragraphs:

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899.

He was born in Illinois.

Illinois is a suburb of Chicago.

He had a middle-class upbringing.

His father was a doctor.

All his life Ernest Hemingway rebelled against the morals of his parents.

He rebelled against the conventions of life in Chicago.

He graduated from High School in 1917.

He didn’t go to college.

He was impatient for a less sheltered environment.

He went to Kansas City.

He was employed as a reporter.

He was a reporter for the Star.

The Star was a leading newspaper.

Working for the Star gave him invaluable vocational training.

He wanted to be a soldier.

He was rejected for military service.

He had poor eyesight.

He became an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross.

He was injured in World War I.

He was decorated for heroism.

He was fascinated by war.

He worked as a war correspondent.

He reported wars in Spain, China and Europe.

Many of his books were about war.

For Whom the Bell Tolls was written in 1940.

It was his most successful book.

It was about a volunteer American soldier in the Spanish Civil War.

It dealt with the comradeship of war.

A Farewell to Arms is about the pointlessness of war.

He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954.

He suffered from depression towards the end of his life.

He loved life, but was obsessed with death.

He committed suicide in 1961.

Ex. 13. Make up your own life story.

Ex. 14. a) read the text, b) share your opinions on the problem discussed.

What Is In a Name?

A young couple I know has been trying to choose a name for their child, which will arrive soon. It hasn’t been easy.

They don’t want to name their baby after a relative, a famous person or themselves. They want something distinctive, but not unusual. They ask if I had any suggestions, since I went through the same thing a couple of times. When my first son was born, and I saw how big he was, I wanted to name him Bronko. With the name of Bronko he would probably get in high position on an American football team, get through college free and make a lot of money. But instead of Bronko, he was called David. David is a fine name. It doesn’t have any mud or coal dust on it. It’s a clean, refined, sensitive name.

So what happened to me firstborn. There he stands today, about 6,5 feet high, huge arms, strong back, and not once in his life has he ever knocked anybody unconscious. Instead he’s a shrink, a musician and a scholar. As I explained to that couple, his name helped his career.

Then they showed me one of those books of names to help parents make a choice. “It even has a list of the most popular names today”, the husband said, “and a list of the names that were popular years ago, when you were a kid”. I looked at the list and wasn’t surprised. Everybody I know has a kid with a trendy name.

Girls are being named Heather, Jennifer, Jessica, Kimberly, Allison and Melissa. Boys are being named Jason, Joshua, Christopher, Scott, Mark, Jeffrey.

When I was a kid, I didn’t know anybody named Heather or Joshua. In my neighbourhood, boys had solid, work-manlike names: Stanley, Walter, Albert, Henry or Joe. Girls had in-the-kitchen names like Mildred, Dorothy, Helen, Eleanor, Bertha and Gertrude. So I suggested that they go for an old-fashioned name, maybe Gertrude, so they could call her Gert. “I’m not going to name my daughter Gert”, the woman said. “That’s awful”. I suggested Phoebe. But they didn’t like that any better. “If it’s a girl”, the husband said, “I’m leaning toward Lisa”. I warned them that by the year 2000, one out of every five young females in America would be named Lisa. And they would all marry guys named Mark. Better to call her Pearl, so she’ll stand out. And if it’s a boy, Elmer. “Elmer,” she cried, “That’s horrible”.

As I was leaving, they were pondering Samantha. The wife said: “We could call her Sam. That’s cute”. I told them that if they wanted to give her a man’s name, why not just call her Horace and be done with it.

A name choice is a serious matter, and many people have been embarrassed by the label they’re stuck with. I’m sure people remember the famous case of Joe Crapp, who went to court to get his name changed.

The judge said: “I don’t blame you for wanting a new name, Joe. What have you chosen?” And Joe Crapp responded: “I want my name changed to John Grapp. I’m tired of people always saying: “Whaddaya know, Joe?”

by Mike Royko

c) 1. Is it difficult to choose a name for a child? 2. What will you call your children? Why? 3. Is it normal to name a child after a famous person (a dead relative)? 4. How do you understand the word “trendy name”? Can you give an example of Russian “trendy name”? 5. How important do you think a good name is for pop and film stars? 6. How important is a good name for commercial products like shampoo, soap, cars or cigars? Can you think of any examples of names which have ruined a product’s success?