Answer the questions. Then write the topic «About myself and my family».

1. What’s your name? What’s your surname? Howoldareyou?

2. When and where were you born?

3. What hair have you got?

4. What colour are your eyes?

5. Is your family large? How many are you in the family?

6. Have you got any sisters or brothers?

7. What are your parents? Where do they work? Do they like their jobs?

8. Can you tell us some words about your father? Is he tall? What is his hair like? What eyes has he got? Has he got a hobby? Whatisit?

9. What is your mother’s name? How old is she? Can you describe your mother?

10. Who helps your mother about the house?

11. Whatareyourgrandparents?

12. Do they live with your family?

Read and translate the text 2

My family

We are an average Russian family. There are four of us: my mother, my father, my brother and me.

I am Kostya Ivanov. Kostya is my first name and Ivanov is my surname. I am sixteen. I’ve got a grandmother and grandfather. They do not live with us, but I feel them members of our family. They often come to see us. My grandmother was a teacher of music. Now she is retired. My grandfather was an engineer and he knows all about radio set and likes to repair old ones. He can fix almost everything: a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine, a fridge and what not. He’s got a few shelves where he keeps everything he needs. On the table there is always a radio in pieces.

My father is forty-four years old. He is an engineer. He works in the office of an engineering company. He is always busy. He has very little free time. He likes his job and there are chances of promotions. He is very experienced. He is not very old. His hair is fair. He has got grey eyes and very kind round face. His forehead is high, his manners are very quiet and pleasant.

My mother is a teacher of Russian literature. She works at a college. She likes her profession. She is a good-looking woman with brown hair. She is fourty-four but she looks much younger. She is slim.

My parents are hard-working people. My mother keeps house and takes care of us. She is very good at cooking and she is clever with her hands. She sews perfectly. She can do everything out nothing. She is very practical. My father and I try to help her with the housework. I wash the dishes, go shopping and tidy up.

My brother Alex is eleven. He is a schoolboy. He wants to become a doctor but he is not sure yet. Three years ago he dreamt of being a cosmonaut.

I want to become a student. I’d like to be a computer programmer. I think I take after my father. I’m tall, fair-haired and even-tempered. I always try to be in a good mood.

At weekends we usually go the countryside to ski in winter and to walk in the forest in summer. But most of all I like family feasts. We’ve got a lot of relatives. My aunts, uncles and cousins live in different parts of Khabarovsk. On holidays they come often come to our place. We have a very good time together. We are deeply attached to each other and we get on very well.

Topical vocabulary

average to be in good mood even-tempered experienced fair-haired to fix in piece quiet to retire t o be clever with her hands to be good at cooking to take care to take after to tidy to get on well tobedeeplyattached

средний быть в хорошем настроении уравновешенный квалифицированный светловолосый чинить разобранный на части тихий, спокойный уйти на пенсию умелые руки хорошо готовить заботиться быть похожим приводить в порядок быть в хороших отношениях быть сильно признательным

Give Englishe quivalents

быть в хорошем настроении, уйти на пенсию, чувство юмора, принимать участие, заботиться, уравновешенный, приводить в порядок, свободное время, семейные праздники, ездить за город, увлекаться чем-либо, быть занятым, родственники.

Translate into English

1. Мой брат очень способный к иностранным языкам.
2. У моего отца хорошее чувство юмора.
3. Моя дочь хорошо успевает в школе.
4. Мой брат преподаватель.
5. Она такая же красивая, как и ее мать.
6. Это очень легкая задача.

 

 

My summer holidays.

    Summer is the most wonderful time for holidays. I always look forward to my summer vacations. There are different ways of holiday-spending and you can vary it. You can stay at home sleeping off, reading interesting books, watching TV or playing computer games all day long.Some people spend their holidays at the seaside or in the mountains.You can also spend several weeks in the country walking through the green fields, watching the clouds and enjoy a nice smell of flowers sitting down on a soft meadow. It’s nice to go for walks to the forest picking mushrooms and berries. If you do not mind of listening to the barking of the dogs and the croaking of the frogs in the evening, go to the country.

Some people want to visit some exotic place like China or Vietnam going sightseeing and visiting the places of interest.To my mind if your idea of a holiday is something relaxing have a camping holiday.

    Our company annually spends summer holidays on the coast of the Japan sea.We place a tent in a quiet picturesque place on the sea shore for several weeks.We are not afraid of mosquitoes, damp,typhoons and wind. We enjoy fresh sea air and sun all day long. I never get bored there. As a rule I make new friends when I am on a holiday. In the daytime we play volleyball, go fishing and boating, swim in the warm water of the sea, sunbathe, read magazines, newspapers.I like to walk along the beach collecting beautiful shells and interesting pebbles.

In the evening I like to sit on the beach watching the rise and the fall of the waves and enjoying the sunset. Our company finds great pleasure in making bonfires and cooking barbecues. We like to sit around the camp fire telling anecdotes, funny stories and singing to a guitar. At night everyone sleeps except me. I enjoy being alone and observing the sky. The night stars attract me so much that I don’t notice anything else. Later it’s nice to sleep in a tent in your sleeping-bag listening to the noise of the waves.

    On this sort of holiday I get absolutely relaxed. There is nothing better for giving you energy to keep you going through the winter. We return home happy and full of impressions.

1. Answer the questions:

1.Do you always look forward to your summer holidays?

2.What do you usually do if you stay at home in summer?

3.Are you fond of travelling?

4.What countries would you like to visit?

5.Have you ever been in the country?

6.What did you do there?

7.Do you like camping holiday?

8.What do you usually do on the sea shore?

9.Are you fond of lying in the sun or swimming?

10.What do you enjoy doing in the evening?

11.What is your idea of an ideal holiday?

 

2. Find the equivalents:

1.Ждатьснетерпением

2.Отсыпаться

3.Гулять по полю

4.Смотреть на облака

5.Собирать грибы и ягоды

6.Осматривать достопримечательности

7.Проводить отпуск на берегу моря

8.Наслаждаться свежим морским воздухом

9.Собирать ракушки и камешки

10.Готовить шашлыки

11.Петьподгитару

12.Расслабляться

3. Translate into Russian:

1.time for holidays

2.a smell of flowers

3.the barking of the dogs and the croaking of the frogs

4.visiting the places of interest.

5.a camping holiday

6.to be afraid of mosquitoes, damp,typhoons

7.to get bored

8.to go fishing and boating

9.to walk along the beach

10.to sit around the camp fire

11.to sleep in a tent

12.to return home happy and full of impressions

 

4. Find the adjectives in the text. Agree or disagree using phrases:

1.In my opinion.

2.To my mind.

3.It goes without saying.

4.It’s hard to say.

5.It is a pity.

6.I doubt it.

 

5.Make sentences out of the following words:

1.I, on, to, beach, like, the, rise, sit, the,watching.

2.Do, like,telling,to, sit, you, anecdotes, the, around, fire?

3.Gives, it, you, to, going, energy, you, through, the, keep,winter.

4.Enjoy, sky, the, observing, I, night.

5.Been, you, have, camping, ever?

 

How I help about the house.

    I live with my parents and I have to help about the house. Every Sunday I do my room. I dust the furniture and vacuum the carpet. I water the flower once a week. I help my mother to lay the table. I wash the dishes after dinner. We take turns with my brother. Sometimes I help my mother to make cakes. I seldom go shopping only when my mother asks me. I buy bread and fruit. Iunderstand that I must help my parents because they work hard. And I don’t mind doing it.

Complete the text.

1.My name is_____________. I live with parents.2.I love my family and help my parents ________the house.3.I always vacuum the ________. 4.Sometimes I help my mother to _______the table. 5.And I usually ________ up after meals. 6.I often ______my room and __________the flowers.7.But I never do the___________. I don’t like it.