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Study the following words and word combinations.1. engagement, betrothal
2. wedding 3. bride, fiancée 4. bridegroom, fiancé 5. matrimony 6. marriage
· to marry smb. Ø for love Ø for money · to be married to smb. · to be married in a religious rite · to be married in a civil form of marriage (civil marriage) 7. registry office 8. a newly-married couple 9. a love match 10. a misalliance 11. a marriage of convenience 12. marriage certificate (marriage lines) 13. to carry marriage seriously (lightly) 14. wedding ring 15. engagement ring 16. honeymoon 17. conjugal ties 18. conjugal union 19. matron of honour/bridesmaid 20. best man 21. pageboy 22. a couple 23. spouse
24. family · a nuclear family · a single-parent family · a blended family · an empty-nest family · an extended family · a consensual union · a same-sex union 25. parents
26. children
27. full brother (sister) 28. siblings
29. ancestors 30. grandparents
31. great-grandparents
32. descendants 33. grandchildren
34. great grandchildren
35. relatives
36. to have relationsto smb. 37. to be related tosmb.
38. first cousin 39. second cousin, etc. 40. uncle 41. aunt, auntie 42. niece 43. nephew 44. to remarry 45. step-father (mother) 46. step-children (step-son/daughter) 47. step-brother (sister) 48. half-brother (sister) 49. adoption
50. paternity of the child is unknown 51. foster-brother/sister 52. foster child 53. foster-father (mother) 54. father (mother)-in-law 55. twins (twin-brothers/sisters) 56. triplets 57. in-laws
· sister (brother)-in-law · father-in-law · mother-in-law 58. godchild
59. godparents
60. a widow (grass widow) 61. spinster 62. an expectant mother 63. widower 64. bachelor 65. she has five children each smaller than the last 66. rising generation 67. he is a pet-model 68. toddlers (tiny tots) 69. polygamy · polygyny · polyandry 70. fictive kin 71. to raise (to bear) children 72. to divorce, to get a divorce · a divorcée 73. trial separation 74. incompatibility 75. adultery 76. alimony 77. maintenance 78. divorce court 79. to dissolve/annul marriage 80. to award a decree nisi Read and translate the introductory text. A Family Marriageis a thing which only a rare person in his or her life avoids. True bachelorsandspinsters make up only a small percent of the population; most single people are “alone but not lonely”. Millions of others get married because of the fun of family life. And it is fun, if one takes a sense of humour. There is a lot of fun in falling in love with someone and chasing the prospective fiancée, which means dating and going out with the candidate. All the relatives (parents, grandparents and great-grand-parents, brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, stepmothers and stepfathers and all in-laws) meanwhile have the fun of criticizing your choice and giving advice. The trick here is not to listen to them but propose to your bride-to-be and somehow get her to accept your proposal. Then you may arrange the engagement and fix the day of the wedding. What fun it is to get all those things, whose names start with the word “wedding” – dress, ring, cars, flowers, cakes, etc.! It’s great fun to pay for them. It’s fun for the bride and the groom to escape from the guests and go on a honeymoon trip, especially if it is a wedding present from the parents. The guests remain with the fun of gossiping whether you married for love or for money. It’s fun to return back home with the idea that the person you are married to is somewhat different from the one you knew. But there is no time to think about it because you are newly-weds and you expect a baby. There is no better fun for a husband than taking his wife to a maternity home alone and bringing her back with the twins or triplets. And this is where the greatest fun starts: washing the new-born’s nappies and passing away sleepless nights, earning money to keep the family, taking children to kindergarten and later to school. By all means it’s fun to attend parent’s meeting and to learn that your children take after you and don’t do well at school. The bigger your children grow, the more they resemble you outwardly and the less they display likeness with you inwardly. And you start grumbling at them and discussing with your old friends the problem of the “generation gap”. What fun! And when at last you and your grey-haired spouse start thinking that your family life has calmed down, you haven’t divorced but preserved your union, the climax of your fun bursts out! One of your dearest off-springs brings a long-legged blonde to your house and says that he wants to marry. And you think: ‘Why do people ever get married?’ PART 1 Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1602
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