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At our today’s lesson we’ll speak about the relationships with different people I am sure you’ll agree with me that these relationships are the most difficult. Try to explain why?
1. Match each expression (a-j) with one of the explanations (1-10).
a) nearest and dearest...7
b) newlyweds
c) the nuclear family
d) adults
e) a community
f) a generation
g) contemporaries
h) the extended family
i) a household
j) outcasts
1 people who are alive at the same time or e.g. attend the same school
2 people who have only recently been (or are still) on their honeymoon
3 all the people of approximately the same age
4 the people in a family who live together under the same roof
5 the entire range of relatives in one family
6 all the people living together in the same area
7 a person (or people) from your immediate family
8 people who are no longer teenagers
9 people abandoned by their families or by society in general
10 parents and their children
2. The next activity is to replace the words underlined with the most
appropriate phrase from the box.
fell out turned him down moved in with got on well
with
kept in touch ran away from got to know let him down
grew up went out together
a) When Brian asked her to marry him, Ann said no.
b) I communicated regularly with most of my old friends
c) Ann spent her childhood years in London
d) David and Jean dated for three months before they got engaged.
e) Kate quarrelled with her boyfriend and they stopped seeing each other.
f) Helen had a good relationship with her in-laws
g) Harry left home without his parents; permission.
h) Sophia promised to meet Michael after work but disappointed him.
i) After a few weeks I went to live in the house of some friends.
j) I grew friendly with Pam when we worked together
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