Focus on Grammar

<strong>Focus</strong> on words1. Collecting wordsfamily:nuclear/single parent/extended; family members: father/dad,mother/mom, aunt/auntie, younger/older brother/sister,stepfather/stepmother;nearest and dearest: niece/nephew, cousin, wife, husband, adopted child;relationships: brotherly/sisterly affection/bonds, to get on well with, to seemuch of each other, to spend a lot of time together, to be onfriendly terms with sb, to have a lot in common with sb; to bequite different, to argue, to break up, to fall out with sb, (dis)obey sb, not to be on speaking terms, make up;marital status: be engaged to sb, bride, bridegroom, marry sb, to be married tosb, to part/divorce with sb, widow, widower, bachelor, maiden,single2. Arranging words. What relations are they in?3. Words in usea. Family matters. Read the texts to discuss them.– I’m an only child. I think it is the most dreadful fate to be growing as an onlychild because all grown ups around you experiment on their unfortunate first born. Theyfind it absolutely impossible to allow their child to grow up naturally making his ownmistakes and quietly learning from them. What a pleasure it is to eat unripe apples withyour friends, but an only child will never have this pleasure because he can never escapefrom the close attention of the grown ups.– A good family is a family where everything, good or bad is shared. Family, tomy mind, is shared memory and a feeling of shelter and support. Wherever you goyou always look homeward. People who were unhappy in their childhood carry thosememories with them throughout all their lives.Answer the questions.1. Are you an only child?2. Is it good to be an only child, to your mind? If not, why?3. Do you get on well with your brothers or sisters?4. Do you share the housework in your family?b. Changing families – progress or disaster?1. Families have changed and I blame fast food. The family that eats together staystogether.2. Though we have our ups and downs we get a lot of support from our family.3. People from abroad often say about Armenian families “your family bonds arestrong, and there lies your wisdom.108