1.

PERSONAL DATA, FAMILY

-What’s your name?

-Where are you from?
-When and where were you born?
-How old are you?
-Where do you live?
-Who do you live with?
-What do you do?
-What does your mother do?
-Who do you take after?
-What schools did you attend as a child?

1. What is the average family like in Hungary?

In most families there are two children, a mother and a father. There are families with more than two children
and many couples get divorced, and the children usually stay with the mother. In some families there are three
generations living together. This means that one or both the grandparents live with the family too, and they help
with the housework, they also look after the children while the parents are at work.

2 . What is your own family like?

a)I have a large family: my parents, a younger sister and an elder brother, and my grandmother. She moved to
our house after the death of my grandfather three years ago. My father is 44 years old. He is a tall man with
curly brown hair and a moustache. He works for an international company./ He works as a…. He is very busy,
but he has several hobbies.
My mother is an elegant woman. She has big blue eyes, and she has her hair dyed red. She is a nursery school
teacher. Her hobby is gardening. My grandmother is at home and helps with the housework. She is an excellent
cook and she always prepares our favourite dishes. My younger sister is 8 years old, and goes to primary school.
She is kind and intelligent, and she likes going to school very much. She is good at swimming. My elder brother is
a university student. He is studying computer sciences. We both are great movie fans, so we often go to the
cinema together. We have a dog,, and we go for long walks in the forest near the city.

b) I come from a small family. I am an only child. I wish I had a brother or sister who I could go out with. It is
true that I don’t have to share my room, books, computer, CDs with anybody but I still would like a brother or a
sister.

3. Do you spend a lot of time with your family? / Do you get on well with your family?

Yes, we try to, although everybody is very busy in my family .We discuss our problems, we share the housework
we plan our holidays together. We often go to the hills at weekends. Apart from hiking, we visit small villages
there and try traditional dishes. In summer we either rent a small house to stay in or put up our tent. When the
weather is cold, we stay at pensions. We like going on cycling tours as well, although it can be tiring in the hills.
We have already been abroad several times. Sometimes we go to football matches with my father, who is a great
fan of that sport.

4. Do you think that large families are happy families? / What are the advantages of large families?

I don’t think that happiness depends on the size of the family. I know a divorced woman who lives alone with her
child and they are very happy together. I also know a family with five children who never spend any time
together. Two of the children have already moved away from home and they rarely visit their parents.

5. What are the advantages of being an only child?

6. How do you imagine your future family?

I would like to get married at the age of 30. I’d like to have 2 or 3 children./ I hope I will have 2 or 3 children. My
wife would look after me, the children and the house. I would have a good job, so I could afford to take my family
to interesting places. At weekends we would go on short trips, and we would spend the holidays abroad. I would
like three children because I am an only child and have always been envious of my friends who have brothers and
sisters.
7 .How do you share the housework in your family?

My mother cleans the house, cooks, washes, does the ironing. My father cleans the windows, vacuums/hoovers
the carpet, empties the dustbin, looks after the garden, does some DIY( do it yourself). I make my bed, help my
parents with shopping, sometimes wash up the dishes, take the dog for a walk.
/household chores- házimunka/

8. What jobs are typically the husband’s responsibility?

Men are usually good at decorating the flat and repairing household devices./háztartási eszközök/. They can fix a
dripping tap, replace a bulb, put on wallpaper. Most men help with the shopping and clean the windows.

9. What labour saving devices (háztartási gép) / household appliances do you know?

I know the washing machine (mosógép), dishwasher (mosogatógép), hoover /vacuum cleaner (porszívó), electric
cooker (el.tűzhely), microwave oven, deep frier (olajsütő), iron (vasaló), fridge, blender (robotgép), percolator
(kávéfőző), coffee grinder (kávédaráló), hair drier (hajszárító)

2. DESCRIBING FRIENDS

1.Do you have a lot of friends?

Yes, I meet five of my closest friends almost every day. One of them lives next door, two are my classmates and
two are my former classmates from primary school.

2.What do you usually do together?

As we are all basketball fans, we regularly go to matches and play football when the weather is good. We are also
interested in good films, mainly action films, and go to the cinema almost every weekend. Before or after the film,
we spend some time is a pub and play darts or billiards.
We are both computer addicts, so we play computer games together and sometimes chat.

3. What is your best friend like?

My best friend is a tall and energetic guy. He has short brown hair and brown eyes. He has a straight nose. He
often wears jeans, and black or blue coloured shirts. He is an open-minded boy, and has got a good sense of
humour. I think his most important inner quality is honesty.

4. Do you have friends abroad? How do you keep in contact?

Yes, I have some friends from Scotland. I have known them for a few months, and we met on the Internet. We
keep in touch either by e-mails, or chat on the Internet. We have never met personally, but we have already sent
each other photos, and we also have a lot of common topics to talk about.
No, I don’t have any foreign friends.

Vocabulary

Appearance

Body-to be tall, short, fat, thin, slim, fat, overweight, muscular, broad-shouldered, narrow-shouldered
Face- to have a round face, oval, thin, fat, wrinkled, rosy, spotted, pale, tanned
Nose- to have a long nose, flat
Hair- to have curly hair, wavy, straight, permed, dyed, parted in the middle, to be bald, to have a pony tail
Eyes-to have big eyes, small, round, greenish-blue
Lips- to have thin lips, large, full lips, painted lips

+ to have a beard, moustache, sideburns, to be (un)shaven, to have freckles, to have glasses

Personality

to be polite, clever, strict, moody, intelligent, proud, brave, emotional, forgetful, honest, shy, nosy, confident,
calm, ambitious, generous, patient, witty, cheeky