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- Are you related to | Helen? | - Yes, he is my cousin. |
Mr Fox | brother-in-law | |
this person | nephew | |
remote kinsman |
- What relationship is Peter to Jane? - Theyare cousins.
David to Harry twins
brother and sister just friends
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- To whom is she (he) married? - She (he) is married to my brother.
my elder sister a 'doctor Mr Smith
- What does your brother do? - He (she) works at a factory | |
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mother sister | studies ata colledge serves in the army is a housewife is retired (on pension) |
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- Who are you? - I’m | John’s brother.Mr Brown’s daughterPeter GreenHenry, Mrs Black’s nephew your friend’s uncle |
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- Is his (her) family large or small? - Well, he (she) is an orphan, a widower a widow a bachelor single
Ex. 20. Find the logical order of the following dialogue parts.
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1. - Any relation to Dr Breed, the director of the Laboratory?
2. - The fourth generation in this location.
3 - And you are a Breed?
4. - It’s a small world, I would say.
5. - His brother. My name is Marvin Breed.
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1. - That’s right.
2. - Has a wedding date been set?
3. - So you’re engaged to Linda?
4. - Something over five months.
5. - How long have you been engaged?
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1. - Why do you say “will be”? He actually is and we’ve already got the first
quarrel as close relations.
2. - I hear your sister Helen and Harry have got married lately.
3. - Now Harry will be your brother-in-law, won’t he?
4. - Oh, yes. They registered the other day and became husband and wife.
1. - My dear, I had accepted him the night before.
2. - What made you quarrel with Conrad?
3. - What was the harm in that?
4. - Well, he proposed to me again last night.
Ex. 21. Supply the omitted questions or answers to the following dialogues
1. A: Can I walk you home?
B:.......
A:.......
2. A:.......
B: We’re waiting until I finish law school.
A:.......
3. A:.......
B: We have two children. Their ages are eight and ten.
A:.......
4. A: Julia is a girl Mike is seriously dating.
B:.......
A:.......
5. A: I’d never have guessed that he was over 70.
B:.......
А: Не was widowed last year, wasn’t he?
B:.......
6. A: Are you married?
B:.......
A: Do you have a boy-friend?
B:.......
A: And they all married while you were gone, huh?
B:.......
7. A: Have you a large family?
B:.......
A: You have a lot of relatives, don’t you?
B:.......
A: He looks like you, very strong resemblance.
B:.......
Ex. 22. Calculate the age of 10 people of your acquaintance according to the following dialogue.
“She was born in February, eighteen sixty-three, and this is May of nineteen forty two. So that would make her what? Seventy-nine?” “Make her seventy-nine,” Mrs Locke confirmed.