Topics for discussion: Tell your new friend about your family.

 Как рассказать о семье на английском языке?

План текста «Рассказ о семье» очень прост.

• ✔ Вступление — некие общие слова о семье, ценности семьи, либо более простое «My name is __, let me tell you about my family».
• ✔ Основная часть — собственно, рассказ о своей семье. Расскажите о родителях, братьях, сестрах. Сколько им лет, чем они занимаются (профессия или что изучают), возможно, чем увлекаются.
• Также можно рассказать а бабушках, дедушках, других родственниках.
• Можно добавить подробностей о семейных традициях.
• ✔ Завершите рассказ о семье общими словами о том, как вы друг друга любите или о важности семейных ценностей.

MY FAMILY

Sample 1

           Every person has his own family. It may be good, unusual, friendly and so on. I`d like to tell you about my family. It`s not very large. I have got a mum, a dad ......... So we are a family of ... . My mum’s name is .,. . She is ... and works at …. My dad’s name is … He is ... and works at a ….

           I go to school. I am a junior pupil, so naturally school takes up a lot of my time. I spend most of the afternoons and evenings doing my homework. My mum keeps the house. Sure I help her about the house. My dad washes the dishes and sets the table. My work is emptying the dustbin, dusting and vacuum cleaning. My mother and father do most of the shopping. My mum is a wonderful cook, and all our family likes her cooking very much.

          I am very happy to get on well with my parents, because they are my best friends and always ready to listen to me and give advice.

         You know, my parents and I are usually very busy during the weekdays and we seldom have a chance to spend time together. We can relax: visit or receive friends or relatives or just go for a walk. Sunday is the day when we can sit at a table and talk over everything that has happened during the week. Eating together makes us feel close and we often have our most useful conversations at these times.

         I especially enjoy quiet evenings, when all the 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, talking, joking and drinking nice hot cups of tea with something tasty.

          Almost every weekend we visit our grandparents; sometimes we visit my uncle (aunt) and his family.

            Family is very important for me, because it gives me a sense of stability and tradition, a feeling of support and understanding. I feel safe when there’s a family behind me. They are people I can trust and rely on, people who won’t let me down and who share my bad times and good ones. My parents are frank and honest with me, they treat me with respect without moralizing or bossing, and I in my turn learn how to get on well with other people and how to form relationship with my classmates.

MY FAMILY

Sample 2

 For almost any person, there is nothing more important in the world than their family. I love my family too. Today I would like to tell you about them.

          My family is quite big. It consists of my mother, father, my three siblings and our cat Bob. Well, most people would say that a pet is not a family member but no one in our family would agree with that. We all love Bob and consider him a family member.

          My mother’s name is Anna, she is a teacher. She has been working in our local school for a long time. My mom teaches History and Social Studies, the subjects that I really love. She loves reading very much, and her favorite book is “A Street Cat Named Bob” by James Bowen. If you are familiar with the book, you can guess why she named our ginger cat Bob.

         My father’s name is Igor. He is a little older than mom and he used to be a police officer. He retired at a quite young age and has been running his own business ever since. He has a small coffee shop and a candy store. To be honest, I don’t know much about his business, but he says it is doing well.

          As for my siblings, I have a sister, her name is Maria, and she is the oldest one, and two brothers – Viktor and Boris. By the way, I am the youngest child in the family but I am totally happy with that role. My sister Maria is an engineer, she lives in another town but visits us at least once a month. My brothers are still students.      Viktor studies history, following in our mother’s footsteps, Boris is going to be a software developer. He is a big fan of videogames, and his dream is to develop his own game.

           In conclusion, I would like to say that I love my family and for me there is nothing more important than them. I think, they all have the same opinion. Even Bob.

                                  Topic "My Family"

Полезные слова из текста:

• family – семья
• mother – мать
• father – отец
• mom (US), mum (UK) – мама
• dad – папа
• brother – брат
• sister – сестра
• siblings – братья и сестры
• pet – домашнее животное
• family member – член семьи
• to consider smb a family member – считать кого-то членом семьи
• to be a (big) fan of smt – быть (большим) поклонником чего-то
• To be honest – Если честно
• to run a business – управлять бизнесом
• He used to be… — Он раньше был… См. статью “Оборот used to”
• to be happy with smt – быть довольным чем-то (когда что-то вполне устраивает)
• to follow in smb’s footsteps – идти по чьим-то стопам
• software developer – программист, разработчик программного обеспечения
• opinion – мнение, точка зрения