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Before listening, look at the words and expressions below that you will hear and make sure you understand them.

Below are collocations frequently used in family contexts. Match them with their meanings on the right. | Read the texts below and discuss the questions that follow. | Taking points | Listen to the recording and while listening write down brief answers to these questions. | Replace the word underlined with the most appropriate phrase from the box. | Skim the texts below and think up a title for each of them. Write down the titles in the blanks before the texts. | Read the passage below and do the tasks that follow. Pay attention to the words given in bold. | Make verbs from these words. | Read the text to learn about weddings and wedding rituals in other cultures. Compare them with those in your own culture. | Read the passage below and give answers to the questions that follow. Pay attention to the words in bold. |


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  7. A) Complete the gaps with the words from the box.

Personal names: Kitty Felde [‘feldi], Shannon Gibson, Pat Howard, Thomas Coleman, John Brown.

Geographical names: California, Los Angeles,Oregon, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia.

Organisations: the US Census Bureau - Бюро переписи населения США; the Family Diversity Project – a private agency; the New York Court of Appeals - апелляционный суд Нью-Йоркa; the Internal revenue Service (Налоговая служба США), National Public Radio.

 

profile - characteristics of something.

foster (family, parents) - are people who officially take a child into their family for a period of time, without becoming the child's legal parents.

stepfamily - a family that is formed on the remarriage of a divorced or widowed person and that includes a child or children.

secretary of state - секретарь штата, должностное лицо, хранитель официальных документов и печати штата.

qualify for - подпадать под право на.

champion, v - защищать, выступать в защиту; отстаивать, поддерживать.

grapple with, v - бороться; схватиться, сцепиться.

survivor – (legal) единственный оставшийся в живых наследник.

rent-controlled apartment - квартира, темпы роста квартирной платы в которой регулируются законом города.

play out (phr v) - доиграть до конца, закончить.

labour union – профсоюз.

legitimize, v - узаконивать (что-л.).

guardian - опекун, попечитель.

health insurance - медицинское страхование, страхование здоровья (вид личного страхования, предназначенный для покрытия расходов на медицинское обслуживание).

tax return - налоговая декларация.

dependent - иждивенец, материально зависимое лицо (лицо, находящееся на содержании или пользующееся материальной и иной поддержкой другого лица или организации).

mess with, phr v – вмешиваться, лезть не в свое дело.

challenge, v - ставить под сомнение, оспаривать.

back smth, v – поддерживать.

 

2. These word combinations occur in the text you will hear. Can you give their Russian equivalents?

A wage-earning father, a disappearing species, to fit the profile, the growing ranks of non-traditional groups, foster parents, stepfamilies, a sixth-grader, a mouth full of braces, her stepfather’s visitation rights, a biological father, the outside world, to register with the secretary of state as a family, a ten-dollar fee, to qualify for family status, to fill out a form, unrelated seniors, for economic reasons, consider smb a family, to champion the family registration concept, Executive Director, to grapple with the problem, a housing survivor case, to evict a surviving family member; related by blood, marriage or adoption; to set up criteria, an ongoing process, to play out fully, California state law, registration procedures, automatic legal benefits, to legitimize one’s status, legal guardian to four teenage boys, to cover smb by health insurance, to claim smb on one’s tax return as a dependent, to have at one’s disposal, to challenge smb’s family certificate, backers of the project, to gain acceptance.

 

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