Since the unit we are studying deals with twins, genes, life events and, ultimately, family, let's brush up your family vocabulary. Here is as full a list as I could compile. Translating some of the words and expressions into Russian may present a problem, so be sure to check them in a monolingual dictionary and to be able to explain the meanings in English. Learn the vocabulary for a dictation.
second cousin - a child of a cousin of your mother or father - троюродный брат/сестра
ReplyDeleteonce, twice, etc. removed - belonging to a different generation: first cousin once removed - ребенок двоюродного брата/сестры, двоюродный племянник; first cousin twice removed - внук двоюродного брата/сестры
ReplyDeletebirth mother - the woman who gave birth to the child who has been adopted - биологическая мать
ReplyDeletenatural - related by blood: natural mother - родная мать
to foster - to take another person's child into your home for a period of time, without legally becoming his or her parent: foster family - патронатная семья
ReplyDeletegreat-aunt - двоюродная бабушка, great-niece - внучатая племянница
ReplyDeleteimmediate family - parents, children, siblings
ReplyDeleteextended family - a family group with a close relationship among the members that includes not only parents and children, but also aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.
blended family - a family that consists of two people and their children from their own relationship and from previous ones