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- Are you related toHelen?- Yes, he is my cousin.
Mr Foxbrother-in-law
this personnephew
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
mother sisterstudies ata colledge serves in the army is a housewife is retired (on pension)
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- Who are you? - I’mJohn’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.