Exercise 13. Study Topical vocabulary. Paraphrase the sentences, using as many different constructions as possible.
E.g. He isn’t seventeen yet. – He is under seventeen.
He hasn’t come of age yet.,etc.
She is not twenty yet.
He is a little over thirty.
My cousin and I are both seventeen.
She is over fifty.
The boy is fifteen or sixteen.
He is almost seventy.
The girl is eighteen or nineteen.
The woman is between forty and fifty.
She is not eighteen yet.
He is already eighteen.
Exercise14 . Complete the following sentences using Topical vocabulary:
I’m about 20, my brother is 22, so he is… .
My cousin is married, so she has… .
Nina is a distant relative of yours, isn’t she? – No, she is… .
My father is married for the second time, so his wife is my … .
Helen and you are both eighteen, so … .
His father is 65, so … .
John is my second cousin. He is my…relative.
He is called Red, it’s his … .
Our family name is Smith, I don’t know my mother’s …name.
We call our baby “Ducky”, it is his… .
Exercise15 . Study Topical vocabulary. Give words or phrases for the following definitions:
To win the affections with a view of marriage;
Unsuitable marriage;
A woman whose husband died;
A woman, who has never been married;
A second wife of one’s father;
A child of an earlier marriage of one’s stepfather or stepmother;
To take a child into one’s family (as a relation);
A man, who has never been married;
To educate, to raise children;
To put an end to a marriage by law;
The man (woman) to whom one is engaged;
Your father’s (mother’s) parents;
A jubilee after 25 years of marriage;
A circular band (often of gold) given as a token of love;
A social meeting between a boy and a girl who haven’t met before.
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