Дополнительные задания Part I. Unit 2

I. Study the Family Phrases and make a story using them:

word	phrase	translation
family	blended family	смешанная семья
	head of a family	глава семьи
	member of a family	член семьи
	to start a family	заводить детей
	to raise a family	растить, воспитывать детей
	family budget	семейный бюджет
	family council	семейный совет
	family man	семейный человек, домосед
	family status	семейное положение
	family circle / hearth	домашний, семейный круг / домашний очаг
	family feud	семейная вражда
	family tree	генеалогическое дерево
	in the family way (pregnant)	в положении, беременная
	immediate family	близкие родственники
mother (syn.: mamma, mom, mummy, ma)	mother’s day (mothering Sunday)	день матери
	mother wit	природный ум
father (syn.: forefather, ancestor, dad, daddy)	father Christmas = Santa Claus	дед мороз
	father Thames	старушка-Темза (матушка-Волга)
	father time	дедушка-время
	like father, like son	каков отец, таков и сын (яблоко от яблони...)
	the big daddy	важная персона
sister	a full sister	родная сестра
	a half sister	сводная сестра
	a weak sister	слабак, “баба”
brother (bro, pal, buddy)	blood brother	кровный брат
	soul brother	брат по духу
	brother in arms	боевой товарищ
	sworn brothers	названые братья, побратимы
	web brother	интернет-проводник
cousin (m/f)	forty second cousin	дальний родственник, седьмая вода на киселе
uncle	paternal uncle	дядя со стороны отца
	maternal uncle	дядя со стороны матери
	uncle	пожилой человек, дядюшка (в обращении)
aunt	My aunt!	вот те на! вот так штука! ну и ну! подумать только!
	if my aunt had been a man, she’d have been my uncle	если бы да кабы...
grandmother (syn.: grandma, grandmamma, granny)	granny	суетливый человек
husband	faithful husband	верный муж
	ex-husband	бывший муж
	henpecked husband	подкаблучник
	to husband (outdated)	1) обрабатывать, возделывать (землю)
		2) развивать (e.g. to husband the mind)
wife	common-law wife	гражданская жена
	ex-wife	бывшая жена
	jealous wife	ревнивая жена
	bachelor’s wife	идеальная женщина, “мечта холостяка”
bride (syn.: fiancėe)	to take a bride	выбрать невесту
	future bride	новобрачная, будущая жена
	war bride	фронтовая жена
bridegroom (syn.: groom, fiancė)	suitor	ухажер, поклонник
son	sissy	маменькин сыночек
	adopted son	приемный сын
	only son	единственный сын
daughter	stepdaughter	падчерица
	baby daughter	дочурка
	to marry off daughter	выдать дочь замуж
	daughter enterprise	дочернее предприятие
relative	blood relative	кровный родственник
	close relative	близкий родственник
	distant relative	дальний родственник
	nearest relatives	ближайшие родственники

II. a) Read and translate the words and word combinations:

1. spacious (adj)

2. laundry (n)

3. sort clothes into piles

4. do out of sheer necessity

5. perpetuation (n)

6. warm and supportive parent-child relationship

7. post-adolescence (n)

8. emerge (v)

9. rampant (adj)

10. push smb closer together

11. well-equipped studio apartment

12. lively atmosphere

13. rebel (v)

14. flagrant exploitation

15. treat parents as moneybags

16. ignore and insult

17. yell bloody murder

b) Read the text:

THE STAY-AT-HOME KIDS

(adapted)

At 25, Alfred Henneman seems to have it made. Being a law student at the University of Bonn, he lives in a spacious four-room apartment in his parent’s home. He comes and goes as he wishes and as a rule cooks for himself. But when he’s ‘not in the mood to cook’, he has a place waiting at the family table. As for the laundry, Alfred sorts his dirty clothes into piles and leaves them by the washing machine. His mother does the rest. Alfred says: ‘She doesn’t mind - yet.’

Alfred Henneman is one of the hundreds of thousands of Europeans over the age of 20 who still live in their parents’ home. Some do so out of sheer necessity, when they have lost a job or unable to find one. Some seek the perpetuation of a warm and supportive parent-child relationship. Some find it just cheaper to stay in the nest. Whatever their reasons might be, increasing number of Europeans, especially well-educated, middle-class young adults, are simply not leaving home. The pattern is beginning to worry some parents - and sociologists as well. ‘Post-adolescence’ has emerged as a term to describe the phenomenon which is now rampant in France, Spain, Italy, West Germany and Sweden.

Loneliness is tending to push parents and their post-teen children closer together. Sophie Boissonnant, a 20 year-old Paris student, tried living in a well-equipped studio apartment, but she quickly found that she missed the lively atmosphere at home and the company of her younger twin brothers. She has now moved back. She remarks philosophically: T wanted to be independent, but I find it better being independent at home.’

Some parents, though, have begun to rebel at what they see as flagrant exploitation by their own children. They use the house like a hotel, with all services. They treat parents as moneybags and then ignore them or just plain insult them. Natasha Chassagne, a French working mother with a 21 year-old daughter and a 22 year-old son at home says: ‘They take it for granted that the fridge will always be well stocked and the closet full of clean clothes. To get them to do anything around the house, you have to yell bloody murder. ’

Newsweek

Find the words or phrases with these meanings:

a very rich person; absolute; violent in behaviour, desire, opinions; keeping; home; free from control in action, judgment, etc.; mature.

d) Discussion

- At what age do young people in your country usually leave home? Are they tending to leave home earlier than before, or stay at home longer?

- What factors are important in taking decisions to leave home?

- What are the advantages and disadvantages for parents of young people to stay at home?