2015-07-04
1987
1) What is your first name? What is your surname? Is that a common name in your region?
2) Are you an only child?
3) Where did you grow up?
4) Who is your oldest friend?
5) How many of your ex-classmates are still your friends?
6) As a child, did anyone tell you off? Why? Did this make you stop or did you carry on anyway?
7) Which member of your family do you get on with best?
8) Who in your family do you take after?
9) Who looks after you when you are ill?
10) As a child, who did you look up to?
11) Are single parent families becoming more common in your region?
12) In your region, do more and more people live together without getting married?
13) When you bring up a child, what do you think is the most important thing to teach him/her?
E. Draw your own family tree and write a short summary of your family background.
READING: MODERN FAMILIES
A. Who do you live with? Do other members of your family live near you, or do you have to travel to see them?
B. Match the words to the definitions.
| to get divorced divorce n | someone that is married to one of your parents, but isn't your parent |
| second wife/second husband | to (make something) become larger in amount or size |
| step mother/stepfather | legally end someone’s marriage (the legal ending of a marriage) |
| half-sister/half-brother | having qualities that are typical of most people or things |
| to go to see | two people who are married or in a romantic or sexual relationship, or two people who are together for a particular purpose |
| suburbs (in the suburbs) | a flat |
| average | the outer area of a town, rather than the shopping and business centre in the middle |
| apartment | to visit |
| couple | someone that you marry when you have already been married to someone else before |
| to increase | someone who has the same mother, or the same father, as you, but not both parents |
