People's Age

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 460.

Our likes and dislikes

to like cycling, drawing, reading, tennis to be fond of table-tennis

to be keen on smth – захапляцца чым-небудзь

The parents want her to be a doctor but she isn't keen.

to dislike doing smth – не любіць што-небудзь

to be an early riser – рана прачынацца

to get rid of a bad habit – пазбыцца кепскай звычкі

a useful habit – карысная звычка

to enjoy one's company – любіць чыю-небудзь кампанію

to be homesick – сумаваць па дому

to live for football from morning till night – жыць дзеля футбола

to get to know smb better – пазнаёміцца з кім-небудзь бліжэй

– Her greatest passion is horse riding – Яе найвялікшае захапленне – язда на канях

What do you call a person who is 14 (a teenager or: He is in his teens), who is a year and a half (a kid), who is 40 (a middle-aged person), who is 18 (He is of age; he has come of age), who is 38 (in his late thirties), who is 42 (in his early forties), who is 75 (an elderly person), who is 35 (in her mid thirties)

Make up short dialogues following the model. Use the phrases prac­tised above. Use different prepositions.

a) - How old are you?

- As a matter of fact I am nearly/under 20.

b) - What's your mother's age?

- She is in her early forties, 42 to be exact.

c) - Is your father a middle-aged man too?

- In fact - he is. He is 45.

d) - Is your friend of age?

- She isn^'t. I think she'll come of age in three months' time (in December, soon).

e) - I think your grandfather is an elderly man, isn't he?

- Oh, yes, he is over 70 now.

f) - How old is that nice kid?

- You mean my niece? She is a 2-year-old child.

g) - Is your sister of age?

- No, she isn't. She is still in her teens. She is under 15.
h) - What's your nephew's age?

- He is a teenager. He is nearly 14, I think.

i) - Are both your grandparents alive?

- No, only my granny is. She is over 60.