Criminal’s troubled Childhood

Family vocabulary

Task1.Fill in the gaps in the table with the following words making the right collocations:

Family relative acquaintance friend(s)

1___________	2_____________	3________________	4 ________
best	old	blood	Close-knit
Close	casual	distant	dysfunctional
Long-lasting			stable
loyal			immediate
bosom			extended
mutual			nuclear
Wide circle of

Task 2. Match the collocations in bold with the definitions:

1. Someone you are related to but not closely. Друзья

2. A family where the parents and children have strong relationships and are very involved with each other. Close-knit

3. Someone who is known and liked by two people who also know each other. Отношения

4. A lot of people who know and like you. Семья, друзья

5. A happy family in which there are no big changes or problems. Stable

6. Someone who you know and like a little but do not have strong feelings for. Друзья

7. A happy family in which here are no big changes or problems

8. Someone who you know and like a little but do not have strong feelings for

9. A family in which there are many problems and bad relationships. Dysfunctional

10. Closely related family members, such as parents, children, brothers and sisters. Отношения

11. Someone that you are related to by birth and not by marriage. Друзья

12. Someone who you used to know a little in the past

Task 3.Complete the newspaper extracts with collocations from the Task 1

Jewellery Designer Dies

The sudden death has been announced of Timothy Carlton, the famous jewellery designer. Carlton, a favourite both of celebrities and royalty, has died at his home, aged thirty-eight. He was raised in Bristol, the only child of two teachers. They were, said friends and neighbors, a Close-knit _ (1) family who did everything together and kept themselves to themselves. Neither parent had siblings, so after the death of his father last year, the designer had no immediate _ family (2). James Plant, an old _друг_(3) of the jewelry designer, claimed that Carlton had become something of a loner in recent years. ‘It seemed strange to me because he’d had a very _ Wide (4) circle of friends when we were hanging out together - he seemed to know just about everyone in London! In recent years, he never answered my calls so I sort of gave up trying. We had a mutual relative _ (5) who still saw him from time to time, but she reported that he had changed a lot.’

Criminal’s troubled Childhood

Kai Turner himself was from a deeply dysfunctional _семья_ (6). His mother was an alcoholic who was incapable of looking after her son. His father left the family when Turner was two years old, never to return. His mother then embarked on a series of relationships that lasted a month or two. Neighbours report seeing various men at the property. The young Turner was therefore raised by a series of _ old_ (7) acquaintances who stayed at the family home for a period and then left. This was, in every way, the opposite of a stable _ cемья_ (8). The boy was isolated, with no siblings or cousins and few friends. The only blood _ отношения_ (9) he had regular contact with was his ill and inadequate mother and she was too ill to look after him. Shelly Turner, 54, a distant _ отношения_ (10) of the family, visited the house once in 2004 and described the young Turner, aged seven at the time, as ‘wild child’, completely out of control’.

Task 4 Are the statements true (T) or false (F)?

1. Timothy Carlton was from a loving family.

2. James Plant was a close friend of Carlton in the past.

3. Timothy Carlton has never been very sociable.

4. No one had seen Timothy Carlton in recent years.

5. Kai Turner was from a loving family.

6. Kai Turner had contact with a number of adult males throughout his childhood.

7. Kai Turner had other brothers and sisters.

8. Shelley Turner is closely related to Kai Turner.

Task 5. Match the sentence halves.

1. He was and old acquaintance who I hadn’t	a. mutual friend.
2. She was a fairly casual acquaintance – I never	b. they’re fairly distant relatives.
3. Her mother had left home when she was six and her father was an alcoholic. It was a	c. and they seemed a very stable family.
4. Dan and I were introduced by a	d. on the phone to his parents and sisters, telling them his news.
5. I have family in Canada but	e. to the funeral.
6. We only invited immediate family	f. completely dysfunctional family.
7. He was married to her aunt	g. knew her very well
8. They have a very wide circle of friends and they’re	h. always socializing with them.
9. She had very nice, supportive parents and a sister who she got on well with	i. so he wasn’t blood relative.
10. He’s from a very close-knit family so he’s always	j. seen for years and years

Task 6. Сheck yourself. Translate into English.

неблагополучная семья
общий друг
близкие родственники
крепкая семья
старый знакомый
кровный (близкий) родственник
любящая семья
широкий круг друзей
случайный знакомый
стабильная семья
дальний родственник
неуправляемый ребенок
вырастить (воспитать)
дети одних родителей

Task 7

Make up 4-5 sentences using the above collocations to describe a famous family. Exchange the sentences and guess the family.

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