- •I. Make friends with your new groupmates. Discuss the following questions.
- •II. Read the e-mails. Which person would you like to make friends with? Why? b)Write an e-mail about yourself.
- •III. Read the text and fill in the headings. Memorize the words in bold.
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the words.
- •‘Family’ Vocabulary
- •V. Complete the gaps.
- •VI. Make up dialogues and act them out.
- •1) Greeting a friend
- •6) Conversational openings
- •VII. Discuss the following questions. Use the leisure activities below.
- •IV. Read the text. Memorize the words in bold. A Day in the Life
- •Vocabulary
- •V. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •VI. Answer the questions.
- •VII. Read the text. Memorize the words in bold. Get Fit at Home.
- •Vocabulary
- •VIII. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •IX. Answer the questions.
- •X. A) Make up sentences and phrases using the table below.
- •XI. Look at Mike’s daily routine. Say when you do these things.
- •XII. Match the sentence beginnings in a with the endings in b, then put the sentences in the most logical order.
- •XIII. Fill in the gaps with the words in the box. Use the correct verb form.
- •XIV. Write a paragraph about your ordinary day.
- •XV. A) Make up sentences using the table below.
- •XVI. Match the synonyms.
- •XVII. Match the opposites.
- •XIII. Match the two columns to form collocations.
- •XIV. Match the verbs and nouns.
- •XV. Match the words and expressions on the left with the definitions on the right.
- •XVI. Complete the text with the expressions from Exercise XV. Remember to write the verbs in the past tense. Having a bad day
- •I. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
- •II. Look at the age groups. At what age do you think you move from one to another?
- •III. Read the text. The Life of a Princess
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •V. Answer the questions.
- •VI. Memorize the following collocations.
- •VII. Match the antonyms.
- •VIII. What stage of life are these people at?
- •IX. Match the sentence beginnings from a with the endings from b and construct Rebecca’s life.
- •X. Birth, death and marriage.
- •1. Fill in the gaps with one of the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with one of the following words.
- •3. Put one of the followings words into each gap. Sometimes more than one is possible.
- •XI. What do you think is the happiest time of a person’s life – when they are young or when they are old? Why? Write 10-15 sentences using the vocabulary words from this unit.
- •I. Discuss the following questions.
- •II. A) Put the sentences in the most likely order. Work in pairs. Explain and memorize the words in bold. Love story
- •III. Read the text. The Cliche Expert Testifies on Love (by Frank Sullivan)
- •Vocabulary
- •IV. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •V. Explain what the following clichés mean.
- •VI. Read the text and fill in the headings.
- •Dating and Marriage Customs in Britain.
- •Vocabulary
- •VII. Read and memorize the definitions.
- •IX. Complete the following text with the words and phrases below.
- •In love
- •X. A) Match the beginnings and endings of the expressions below. Use one of the endings twice.
- •XI. Read the following sentences and put the words and phrases in bold into the correct column below.
- •XII. Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences below.
- •XIII. Use the correct form of these words and expressions:
- •XIV. Julie and Dave are getting married next month. Match the beginnings of the phrases with their endings. Pay attention to the active vocabulary.
- •XV. Use these words to fill the gaps.
- •XVI. Here are the marriage vows that a man says in Britain. Complete them using these words.
- •XVII. Use these expressions in the situations below:
- •XVIII. Complete the response in four different ways.
- •I. Read the text and answer the questions below. Agatha Christie
- •II. Read the text. Changing Values and Norms of the British Family
- •III. Read the text. Explain and memorize the words in bold. The American Family
- •IV. Read the text
- •V. Read the text. Explain and memorize the words in bold. Domestic Chores
- •VI. Read the text.
UNIT 2
Family and Friends
Daily Routines and Housework
Stages of Life
Love and Romance, Marriage
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
PRE-READING ACTIVITIES
I. Make friends with your new groupmates. Discuss the following questions.
What’s your name?
How old are you?
Where are you from?
What nationality are you?
What’s your surname?
How do you spell it?
What are your hobbies?
Have you got many friends?
Are you married or single?
Do you live with your parents?
Is your family large?
Have you got a sister or a brother?
What other relatives have you got? (a cousin, an uncle, an aunt, a niece, a nephew, grandparents)
Do you share a room/a flat with your friend/your sister/your brother ?
II. Read the e-mails. Which person would you like to make friends with? Why? b)Write an e-mail about yourself.
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Hi! My name is Mike. I’m from Norfolk, a town in the United States. I’m twenty years old. I’m a student at Yale University, School of Art. I study graphic design. I like taking pictures; I also like going to the movies, bowling and computers. I love writing and receiving e-mails, and I hope to make friends with people all over the world. Please write!
2)
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Hello! I’m Johanna. I come from Malmö, a town in Sweden. I’m 19 years old and I study culture at Malmö University. I like listening to music; I also play the piano, the guitar and I write songs too. I would like to talk to people all over the world to learn more about their culture and way of life. Please write in English and, of course, Swedish.
3)
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Hi! It’s nice to meet you. My name’s Nicholas. I’m from Singapore. I’m 16. I love to play tennis and softball. I like having fun with my friends. I can write in English and Mandarin Chinese. I want to make friends all over the world.
TEXT
III. Read the text and fill in the headings. Memorize the words in bold.
In-laws
My Closest Relatives
Second Families
Grandparents / Grandchildren
My Own Family (a Nuclear Family)
My Family Tree
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I am married and have a family of my own. My husband is a nice man. We have two children. Our female child is our daughter, and our male child is our son. They are lovely kids.
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My closest relatives are my parents: my mother and father, and my siblings (a brother and a sister). My mother is not the only child. So is my father. That’s why I also have two aunts and an uncle. One of the aunts is the sister of my mother; the uncle is my mother’s brother. The other aunt is my father’s sister.
My father’s sister has two children: a boy and a girl. They are my cousins. (In English, the word cousin is used, whether the cousin is female or male.) My female cousin is my father’s niece, and my male cousin is my father’s nephew.
My mother’s sister and brother are young adults, and they are single.
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My husband’s family are my in-laws. His mother is my mother-in-law and his father is my father-in-law. His sister is my sister-in-law. The term in-law is also used to describe my relationship with the spouses of my siblings. The husband of my sister is my brother-in-law, and my brother’s wife is my sister-in-law. So I have two sisters-in-law.
The term “in-law” is used for all generations. If you are a woman, you become the daughter-in-law of your husband’s parents, and if you are a man, you become the son-in-law of your wife’s parents.
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The parents of my parents are my grandparents – my grandmothers and grandfathers. They are all alive. My siblings and I are their grandchildren – granddaughters and a grandson. One of my grandmothers has a sister, who is my great-aunt. I’m her great-niece. If your grandparent has a brother, he is your great-uncle. And you are either his great-niece or great-nephew.
My grandmother’s and grandfather’s parents are my great-grandparents (great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers).
If you go back another generation, the grandmother of your grandmother / grandfather is your great-great-grandmother. The grandfather of your grandparent becomes your great-great-grandfather.
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My siblings and I are happy: we have two parents and a close-knit family. But there can be one-parent families and stepfamilies.
If your mother or father remarries, you can acquire a new family and a new set of relatives. For example, if your father marries a second wife, she becomes your step-mother. Any children she already has become your step-sisters or step-brothers.
If your mother or father remarries and has children, they become your half-brothers or half-sisters.
You might also hear people talking about their biological brother / sister etc., to mean a brother who is related by blood, rather than by marriage.