Work in pairs. Make up a dialogue about your family. Try to get as much information about the family of your partner as you can.

Look here! / I say! – Послушай!

As for… – Что касается…

By the way. – Между прочим.

Really? – Неужели?

All right! – Ладно! Хорошо!

After all. – В конце концов, в конечном счете.

I doubt it. – Сомневаюсь.

And what about… (your son)? – А как насчет … (вашего сына)?

Tell me… – Скажите…

I should say… – Я бы сказал…

I shouldn’t say so… – Я бы не сказал…

You see… – Видите ли…

How very interesting! – Как интересно!

You don’t say so! – Что вы говорите! (удивление)

I see. – Ясно. (Понятно).

23. Do the quiz. Guess the names of the people described below:

1) said: “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a pretty girl and a policeman”

was born: in England

lived: in the USA

died: in Switzerland

2) said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.

came: from one of America’s richest families

was assassinated: in 1963

3) said: “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players”

was born: in the sixteenth century, in Stradford-on-Avon

wrote: 37 plays and an enormous amount of poems

4) was born: in Hollywood

became: one of America’s most famous film stars

acted in: Gentlemen prefer Blondes

committed suicide: in 1962

5) were: great British musicians

work: started their musical career in Liverpool, made a great many songs, became world famous.

6) was: a USA citizen, but lived some years in Cuba

wrote: Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, many other novels and stories.

died: in 1960s

7) said: “I’m not a citizen of Greece, but of the world”.

wrote: nothing himself, all we know was written by his followers

suicide: was made to drink poison by the government

died: in Switzerland

8) said: “God is really only another artist”

was born: in Spain

lived: in Paris

painted: “Guernica”