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GLOSSARY

Nouns

acquaintance	знакомый
adolescent	подросток, юноша
ally	союзник
ancestor	предок
aunt	тетя
bachelor	холостяк
companion	компаньон
descendant	потомок
father-in-law	свекр, тесть
flanc6/fiancee	жених/невеста
grandparents	бабушки и дедушки
great-grandparents	прабабушки и прадедушки
guardian]	опекун
neighbour [	сосед
nephew	племянник
niece	племянница
parent	один из родителей
peer	ровесник
Second cousin	троюродный брат/сестра
sibling	брат/сестра
spouse	супруг/супруга
stepmother (stepfather)	мачеха (отчим)
in-laws	родственники со стороны мужа/ жены
uncle	дядя

Adjectives

considerate]	внимательный, заботливый
divorced	разведенный
married	женатый
separated	проживающий раздельно
single	неженатый/незамужняя
sociable	общительный
sympathetic [	сочувствующий
tolerant	терпимый

Verbs

appreciate	ценить
rebel	бунтовать
support	поддерживать

Word patterns

to approve of sth	одобрять что-либо
to marry sb	жениться на ком-либо/выйти замуж
to be married to sb	быть женатым на ком-либо/ замужем
to be engaged to sb	быть обрученным
to be tolerant of sb	быть терпимым по отношению к к-л

Confusing words

adopt		усыновить
foster		взять на воспитание
relation		отношение
relative		родственник
relationship		взаимоотношения
wife		жена
spouse		супруг/супруга
bride		невеста в день свадьбы
fiancee		невеста
husband		муж
groom		жених на свадьбе
fiance		жених
partner	сожитель
divorce	развестись
separate	проживать отдельно
split up	порвать отношевдя
pair	пара
couple	пара
upbringing	воспитание
background	происхождение
environment	обстановка, окружение
marry	жениться, выйти замуж
get engaged	обручиться

Phrasal verbs

bring sb up — to care for a child until it is an adult

count on sb — to rely on sb

fall out with sb — to quarrel with sb

get through to sb — to make sb understand sth

let sb down — to disappoint sb badly

look up to sb — to respect sb

look down on sb — to despise sb

pick on sb — to treat sb unfairly, find fault with sb, criticise sb

put up with sb — to tolerate sb, stand sb

take after sb — behave or look like sb

take to sb — to begin to like sb

tell sb off— to speak to sb angrily

Word patterns

To approve of sb

To be tolerant of sb

To be/get engaged to sb

To be/get married to sb

To marry sb

To provide for sb

To rely on sb/sth

To tend to do sth

single-parent family

to pay sb compliments

to take sth for granted

Phrases and collocations

share housework and breadwinning Do you mind sharing housework and breadwinning when you get married?

treat sb like a child As for me, I don’t like being treated like a child.

to be easy to get on with What is he like? —Actually, he isn't easy to get on with.

be totally different like chalk and cheese Do they have much in common? — Frankly speaking, they're totally different like chalk and cheese.

see sb as one’s best friend Is your relationship with your mother very close? — I think so. I see my mother as my best friend.

single-parent family The number of single-parent families has increased in our country in the last few years.

to pay sb compliments Do men tend to pay women compliments in England?

to take sth for granted We didn’t me to take our parents’ care for granted. We really appreciated it.

what makes our relationship work What makes our relationship work is that we've got a lot in common

Word formation

to rebel rebel, rebellion, rebellious, rebelliousness	parent parenting, parenthood, parental(ly), parentage	to respond (ir)responsible, responsibility response responsive
to (dis)approve (disapproval	(im)patient (im)patience, (im)patiently	(dis)agree (disagreement, agreeable
to inherit inheritance, heritage, heredity, hereditary, heir - heiress	person personality, personnel, personalize, (im)personal, (im)personally, interpersonal	social sociable, socialize, socially, society anti-social
to consider (in Considerate, consideration, reconsider	to appreciate appreciation, (un)appreciative(ly), appreciable	sympathy sympathize, (unsympathetic, (un)sympathetically
to separate separation, (in)separable, separated, separately, separate	to relate relation, relationship, (unrelated, relatively)	to tolerate tolerant, tolerance, tolerantly, (in)tolerant, (intolerable

to bring up upbringing

to rely (unreliable, reliability (self-)reliant

young youngster, youth, youthful(ly) youthfulness

C o n f u s i n g w o r d s

a d o p t / f o s t e r

To adopt a child is to take a child into your family and treat him/her as your own child by law. They couldn’t have children, so they adopted.

To foster is to take a child who needs a home into your family and to cure for him/her without becoming a legal parent. The child is a foster-child, the people who do this are foster-parents. To foster a homeless child was noble of them.

relation / relative / relationship

A relation between ssthand sth, a relation to sth is a connection between two or more things. There seems to be little relation between the cost of the houses and their size.

A relation is a member of your family, a relative. Are you any rotation to each other?

A relationship with sb, between A and В is the way that people, groups, countries feel about or behave towards each other. The relationship between the parents and the school has improved greatly. Do you have a c lose relationship with your brother?

A relationship to sb is a family connection. What is your relationship to B ruce? — He's married to my cousin.

wife / bride / fiancee

A wife is the woman to whom a man is married. He works so much that his wife and children only see him at the weekends.

A bride is a woman on or just before her wedding day. In China a bride usually wears a red dress, not a white one.

A fiancee is a woman who has promised to marry sb. This is my fiancee Liz. We got engaged a few weeks ago.

husband / groom / fiance

A husband is a man that a woman is married to. Her ex-husband see the children once a month.

A groom (bridegroom) is a man on or just before his wedding day. All the guests are in the hall waiting for the bride and groom to come.

A fiance is a man who has promised to marry sb. Is Ben your fiance or still just a boyfriend?

partner / spouse

A partner is the person that you’re married to or live with as if you’re married. Nowadays a lot of young people prefer living as partners without getting married. Or a person that you’re doing an activity with as a team, for example, dancing or playing a game or one of the people who owns a business. Let me introduce Mr Morris, my business partner.

A spouse is your husband or wife (a formal or official word, used on forms, documents etc) Both spouses have equal rights concerning their children.

divorce / separate / split up

To divorce is to legally end your marriage to sb. She divorced him a year after their marriage. My parents got divorced when I was 3.

To separate is to stop living together as a couple with your wife, husband or partner. His parents separated when he was still a baby.

To split op with sb is to end a marriage or relationship. He’s split up with his girlfriend.

marry / get engaged / get married

To marry sb is to take sb as your husband or wife. They married when

they were very young. When did Rock ask you to marry him?

to get married (to sb) is more commonly used than marry. They got married in 1997.

To get engaged to sbis having agreed to get married. We’ve just got Susan is engaged to Jim.

upbringing i background / environment

An upbringing is the way a child is treated and taught how to behave his/her parents. A strict upbringing is not always beneficial.

A background is the type of family and social class you come from ml the education and experience you have. We get on very well together inspite of our different backgrounds.

An environment is the conditions in which you live, work. A pleasant working environment was all I wished.

pair / couple

A pair is two things of the same kind that are used together. A pair of socks/gloves. Or two people who are standing or doing sth together. A pair of dancers were dancing a waltz.

A couple is a small number of things. Have a rest for a couple minutes. Or two people who are married or having a sexual or romantic relationship. A young honeymoon couple would certainly want more

1. Complete using the words form the box.

appreciate tolerant couple down paying sociable support work sharing extrovert take

1. Would you like a unisex marriage with husband and wife... housework and breadwinning?

2. Modem wives... and enjoy their families and homes because they are away from them for some of the time in their own careers.

3. The average Swede doesn’t spend much time... a woman compliments. He is quite prepared to treat her as an equal.

4. When a young... many they don’t... it for granted that the husband is the breadwinner and the wife is the housekeeper.

5. Many men think that women have a right to... themselves.

6. I can’t put up with the way they look... on people. I disgusting.

7. My parents don’t mind my crazy hair style. They are very....

I think I’ll stay here on my own. I’m not feeling very... today.

9. Guy’s a real.... He’ll chat to anybody. He always seems to go into conversation wherever we go and everyone seems to find him charming.

What makes our relationship... is that we share the same interests.

2. Match the words with their definitions.

1. someone you know only superficially	a) companion
2. keeps you company	b) descendant
3. you disagree with violently and dislike	c) acquaintance
4. is associated with you in business or plays sport with you	d) enemy
5. a person who belongs to the same family as sb who lived a long time ago	e) friend
6. a person in your family who lived a long time before you	f)peer
7. helps you in war or confrontation	g) ally
8. you like a lot and have things in common with	h) partner
9. a person who is of the same age or position in society as you	i) ancestor
10. a person who lives near you	j) neighbour

3.Replace the underlined words with their synonyms/phrasal verbs

1. Susan feels strongly that her elder brother is someone to respect.

2. All three children behave like their father and are very sociable.

3. Paula and Shirley are good friends but sometimes they quarrel and it takes them a while to make up.

4. Tony felt that he could rely on his classmate.

5. I'm sorry but I just can’t stand your behaviour any longer.

6. My father selected a public school for my education. But because of my total lack of interest and non-attendance I was asked to leave. I disappointed him quite badly, I suppose.

7. It’s difficult to make Donna understandanything as she seems to be up-in-the-clouds.

8. The teacher spoke to me angrily for not doing the project on time.

9. Don’t treat the other children in your class unfairly just because you’re bigger than them.

10. I didn’t like my stepbrother at first but after a while we grew closer.

4. Choose the correct item.

1. I was born in Scotland but I... in Northern Ireland

a) grew up b) raised c) brought up d) rosе

2. Edward was named after one of his father’s distant …….

a) family b) brothers c) member d)relations

3. Jane and Brian got married a year after they got....

a) divorced b) proponed c) engaged d) separated

4. Is Brenda married or...?