Nurse niece twin bride neighbour ancestor widow

1) The son of your brother or sister.................................................

2) A woman on the day of her marriage.........................................

3) A young child who is learning to walk.......................................

4) What a woman calls the man she is engaged to..........................

5) One of two children born at the same time.................................

6) A person who lives near you......................................................

7) The daughter of your brother or sister........................................

8) A person who is fully grown.......................................................

9) A woman whose husband has died.............................................

10) At a wedding, the friend of the bridegroom..............................

11) A person from whom one is remotely descended ….................

12) A child whose parents are dead................................................

13) A child of one’s uncle or aunt...................................................

14) A woman or girl employed to look after babies or small children............................................................................................

E Arrange the words below under the headings ‘man’ and ‘woman’.

e.g. man woman

nephew niece

spinster godmother granny fiancé bachelor

grandpa godfather uncle groom best man

auntie widower bridesmaid fiancé e widow

F Choose the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.

1. How long has Sarah been.....................................…. with Peter?

A) going back B) going in C) going out D) going up

2. They fell in love at first..........................................................….

A) glimpse B) look C) sight D) viewing

3. How long have they been......................................................….?

A) betrothed B) engaged C) financed D) intended

4. When are they going to ….........................................................?

A) get married B)marry them

C) marry each other D) marry themselves

5. Peter has asked Michael to be his …................... at the wedding.

A) best man B) bridesmaid

C) eyewitness D) godfather

6. Sarah has invited all her …................................. to the wedding.

A) compatriots B) in-laws C) parents D) relations

7. Her parents have been married for 25 years and today is their..........................................................................................................

A) anniversary B) birthday C) jubilee D) marriage

8. The people in the flat upstairs are always having noisy........…..

A) debates B) discussions C) noises D) rows

9. When her mother remarried, she got on very well with her new..........................................................................................................

A) ancestor B) forefather C) foster-father D) step-father

10. A diagram that shows the members of a family and their relationship is called a family....................................................….

A) branch B) line C) river D) tree

G Study the following phrases and idioms for relationships. Use them in sentences of your own.

1) She doesn’t just like Bob, sheidolises him! I can’t stand him.

[hate]

2) I really like Lisa, but her friend just turns me off. [excite hate]

3) Jo and I get on well with each other. [have a good relationship]

4) Adrian and Liz don’t see eye to eye. [often argue/disagree]

5) I’ve fallen out with my parents again. [had arguments]

6) Tony and Jane have broken up / split up. [ended their

relationship]

7) George is having an affair with his boss. [a sexual relationship,

usually secret]

8) Children should respect their elders. [adults/parents, etc.]

9) Let’s try and make it up. [be friends again after a row]

10) She’s my junior /I’m her senior /I’m senior to her, so she

does what she’s told. [refers to position/length of service at work]

H Read the following sentences attentively and correct the idioms used in them.

1. Jo and Phil don’t get on eye to eye with each other.

2. I fell up with my parents last night. It wasn’t my fault.

3. We had a quarrel but now we’ve made it well.

4. Do you think Jim and Nora are making an affair? I do.

5. I see very well with all my colleagues at work.

6. She should learn to respect her elders.

7. Jo’s attractive, but her mate just turns me up completely.

I Read the quotations below. Discuss with other students.

A. What do you think each one means?

B Which do you agree with? Which do you disagree with? Why?

· Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold. André Malraux

· No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-agedchildren for signs of improvement. Scott Maxwell

· Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fullfil the promise of their early years. Anthony Powell

· The family is the place, where the most ridiculous and the least respectable things in the world go on. Ugo Betti

· God gives us our relatives: thank God we can choose our friends. Ethel Watts Mumford

3 Man is a universe of talents and inabilities, ambitions and laziness, strengths and weaknesses, raptures and disillusionment, hopes and despair, good and evil. And this universe is no less exciting and mysterious than the Universe around us. Man has always been tempted to explore the outer space, getting further and further beyond the Earth, while his inner world has remained as enigmatic as the most remote planets and stars.

A The following words describe intellectual ability of a person. Arrange them under the two headings: a) having ability and b) lacking ability: