MY FAMILY

My family is not a large one. There are five of us: father, mother, two brothers and myself. We live in a small town. Some of our relations live close by, including my grandparents, who are retired, aunt and uncle and their children, my cousins.

Father works in a bank, mother is a housewife, my eldest brother Tom is a student, my second brother Pete is an artist and I am in the eleventh form at my school.

Since we all leave home at different times in the morning, the evening meal is our one opportunity of sitting down together. At weekends we see more of one another, although Tom is often away playing soccer and Pete frequently goes to visit his friend, who lives in the country. However we do try to spend Sunday together as a family day, when our relations often join us for tea or sometimes for dinner. Though our family are usually fond of watching TV, we have a rule, that it is not switched on Sunday, because this destroys conversation.

Today, however, we broke our rule. There was an international soccer match which Tom was eager to see. Father was against it, as he felt it was breaking the established rule without good reason. Fortunately for Tom, both my cousins wished to watch the match as well. So father gave way, but he did insist that they take the TV into another room.

Дата добавления: 2015-07-10