Экзамен семья минимум

Describing / Giving information

You might be asked to describe:

• Family
• Home
• Neighborhood
• Hometown
• School / studies
• Job
• hobbies

Describing: Your family

Describe your family factually, don’t talk about emotions.

Useful words:

Small, Nuclear, extended, only/first/second/middle/youngest child,

siblings, married, moved out, divorced, -in-law,

step-, half-, widow, single, share, raised, died, close, distant

Relation

Name/Age

Occupation

Status

Other

Assemble and order the best answer. Don’t use all the points.

How many people are there in your family?  

• We live in a large house in the north of my country.
• It gets very cold there in the winter
• I try to go back often.
• There are four
• My brother and my parents.
• There's myself of course.
• We are four
• Then there's my brother
• And I have my mother and father
• I have two grand parents
• they don't live with us.

late 70s

of us

younger

fifteen years old

as well

Lots more useful language

I live in a  one-parent family / single-parent family.

I really enjoy my  family life.

I  grew up  on a farm.

  A large  household

  We've got the same name but are not  related.

He is a  close / distant relative of mine.

I really  take after  my mother.

  All her children are very artistic. It must  run in the family.

Bringing up / raising  children is never easy.

My parents really tried to give me a good  upbringing.

my mother's the main  breadwinner  now.

  I need a job, so I can  support  my family.

  I am getting married next year and hope to  start a family  straight away.

My father is really a  family man.

My  step father  is a nice man.

  Paul is my  big brother / older brother.

  Anna is my  little sister / younger sister.

  My  twin  sister is a dentist.

  She doesn't get on well with her  in-laws.

I  closely resemble  my father.

  My parents  live apart  from each other.

Family questions

• How large or small is your family?
• What do you do together as a family?
• Who are you closest to in your family?
• Is yours a typical family?
• Are there many different types of family in your country?

Imagine these families and answer the questions about them.