Define the type of the family.

1. We are many. All the members of our family have close relations. We live together.

2. They have the only child who is in the centre of their attention.

3. We are many. We share our parents’ attention.

4. We enjoy doing many things together with our grandparents who live with us.

5. There are only two of us. We do everything together.

6. When I have a problem I can always find a person to discuss it with.

7. Sometimes I feel a lack of one parent badly.

8. My father is my best friend. But I have no mother. She is dead. I have a stepmother.

9. They are good parents but all their children are adoptive.

10. They are unhappy because there are no children in their family.

Fill in the missing words and word combinations from the list below.

1. I ___________ with my parents and all of us ___________ of each other. 2. My ___________ are my best friends and we never ___________. 3. He is a bad father, he doesn’t feel ___________ for his family. 4. I have many uncles and aunts so I have many ___________ . 5. My mother is going to marry again, so I’ll have a ___________ . 6. I ___________ my room with my sister. 7. My grandfather’s ___________ is my grandmother. 8. They ___________ adoptive children but they love them very much. 9. My sister ___________ but I know that she doesn’t love her ___________ . 10. Small families, so-called ___________ are typical for most European societies. 11. If parents ___________ , children are left with a mother or a father only. 12. She is in a bad ___________ today. 13. Family relations ___________ on many things. 14. He does everything ___________ to be happy. 15. How many members does your family ___________ of?

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responsibility, stepfather, get on well, share, mood, take care, siblings, consist, are divorced, bring up, nuclear families, depend, husband, in order, relatives, wife, is married, quarrel

Match the phrases in column A with those in column B. More than one answer is possible.

Model: I am the youngest in my family. It’s a disadvantage. Everyone tells me what to do.

Would you prefer to be the only child or one of two or three children?

A	B
1. I am the youngest in my family. 2. A disadvantage of being the only child is that … 3. An advantage of being the only child is that … 4. I get along well with my brothers and sisters. 5. The advantage of having brothers and sisters is that … 6. I always quarrel with my brothers and sisters because …	a) It’s an advantage. b) It’s a disadvantage. c) I am the centre of attention. d) they tease (дразнят) me. e) I always share personal secrets with them. f) they are my best friends. g) everyone tells me what to do. h) I can do whatever I want. i) we always take care of each other. j) we spend a lot of time together. k) I have nobody to play and share secrets with.

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