Our family

1. We are a large and friendly family. There are six of us: grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, my younger sister and I. I have an elder sister too, she is 22 years old, but she doesn't live with our family. She is married. She has a little family of her own: a husband and a child – a two-year old boy.

2. Our grandpa is a scientist. He is on the wrong side of 60, but he does not want to retire. He works at the university. He works part-time. He goes to the university two or three times a week and delivers lecturers to students and does a scientific work. On the days when he is at home, he works in his study, A ________________.

3. Our grandma is retired. She was a teacher and worked at school. She is the recognized head of the family. She keeps house. Of course we help her about the house: all of us do our share in daily household chores. My sister washes the dishes, sweeps and washes the floor, washes the sink in the kitchen. My work is
B _______________. Our mother and father do most of the shopping. My mother and sister also do washing. But C ______________ is done by grandma. She is a wonderful cook, and all our family likes her cooking very much.

4. Father is a doctor. He works in a large hospital. Mum is an economist and she works at a bank. Both our parents are very busy. Father has a car. In the morning he drives mother to work, then he goes to his hospital. Father also always drives grandfather to work on his University days.

5. My sister and I go to school. We are both senior formers, so naturally school takes up a lot of our time. We spend most of the afternoons and the evenings
D _______________.

6. At the weekend we are not as busy as on week days, and we can relax: visit or receive friends or relations or just go for a walk. I also enjoy quiet Saturday evenings, when all members of our friendly family are at home and nobody is in a hurry and we are quietly sitting in our large and comfortable living-room, E ________________ and drinking nice hot cups of tea with something delicious prepared by grandmother.

1. talking, joking, discussing our everyday affairs
2. most of the cooking
3. driving me to school
4. preparing for his lectures and writing a book
5. doing our homework
6. emptying the dustbin, beating the carpet, dusting and vacuum cleaning

Задание 2. Прочитайте вопросы A – E. Установите, в каких абзацах 1 – 6 можно найти ответы на эти вопросы. Используйте каждый абзац только один раз. Один абзац не подойдет.

A) Who works as a university teacher? – _________
B) Who spends a lot of time doing the home task? – _______
C) Who does not live with the family? – _______
D) Who drives some of the family members to work? – _______
E) Who does wet cleaning of the house? – _______

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