About myself.

Before I start talking about my family let me introduce myself. I am [your name]. I am [your age]. I have left school this year (last year). I was born in [your city].

And now I am going to tell you about my family. We are a family of five. We are a small and friendly family. And we are happy to live together and get on all right.

To begin with, I am going to talk about my father. His name is Sergey. He is 45. He works as a surgeon in a hospital. He is neither old, nor young. He is a good-looking man, handsome, rather thin with dark brown hair just beginning to get grey. He is a very sociable person. What I don’t like about my dad is that he is always busy. Very often he works overtime. He is a bread-maker in our family. He is fond of going to the country at the week-ends, because he enjoys working in the garden.

My mother’s name is Anna. She is three years younger than my father. She works as a teacher at a nursery school. My mother is rather slim and pretty, she is always elegant and smart. In short, she is a pleasant-looking woman of about 40. She always has a lot of work to do both at work and about the house. She is fond of her work and spends a lot of time there. But she has to cook food for all the family at home. Shopping and cooking is nearly half a day’s work for her. But my granny and I are in habit of helping her about the house.

Alex is my elder brother. He is six years senior to me. So he is 23 already. He has graduated from the University and he is an economist by profession now. Alex is married. His wife is a journalist. They are three in the family. They have got a child, my nephew. It is a lovely little boy of two with golden hair and dark brown eyes and a spirit that is always bright and happy, full of joy and gaiety.
And finally a few words about my granny. To tell you the truth, she is my best friend. She always listens to my endless stories about my friends and my school life. She is retired on pension now but in her youth and her older age she worked as a teacher in a school. I must admit, she is a very understanding person.

Put it into a few words, we are a united and friendly family.

Список слов к топику about myself.

To introduce oneself – представлять кого-то, знакомиться
To leave school – заканчивать школу
To graduate from the University – заканчивать университет
A surgeon – хирург
Handsome – красивый (о мужчине)
Sociable – общительный
To work overtime – работать сверхурочно
A bread-maker – кормилец
To be fond of – нравиться, любить
Slim – стройный, изящный
Pretty – хорошенькая, симпатичная (о женщине)
Elegant – элегантный
Smart -  хорошо одетый, модный, изящный
To be in (to have) a habit of doing smth. – иметь привычку (обыкновение) чем-то заниматься
Senior – старший, старше
Junior – младший
To be married – быть женатым (замужем)
Nephew – племянник
Gaiety – веселость
Endless – нескончаемый
To be retired on pension – находиться на пенсии

Relatives by birth:

A family – семья
Parents – родители
A mother (mum) – мать (мама)
A father (dad) – отец (папа)
A son – сын
A daughter – дочь
A sister – сестра
A brother – брат
A grandfather – дедушка
A grandmother – бабушка
A great-grandfather – прадедушка
A great-mother – прабабушка
A grandson – внук
A granddaughter – внучка
Grandparents – бабушка и дедушка
Grandchildren – внуки
An uncle – дядя
An aunt – тетя
A nephew – племянник
A niece – племянница
A cousin – двоюродный брат (-ая сестра)

Relatives by marriage

A husband – муж
A wife – жена
A father-in-law – тесть, свекор
A mother-in-law – теща, свекровь
A son-in-law – зять (муж дочери)
A daughter-in-law – невестка (жена сына)
A brother-in-law – деверь (муж сестры)
A sister-in-law – золовка (жена брата)
A stepfather – отчим
A stepmother – мачеха
An adopted child – приемный ребенок
An orphan – сирота
A widower – вдовец
A widow – вдова
Twins – близнецы
To be married – быть женатым (замужем)
To get married – жениться (выходить замуж)
divorce – развод, разведенный
Divorcee – разведенная
Single – холост, не замужем
Descendant – потомок
Direct descendant – прямой потомок
Hereditary – потомственный, традиционный в семье
Heir – наследник
Progeny – поколение, потомство
Relatives – родственники
(one’s flesh and blood – родственник)

My Family

I am Zhilin Andrey. Andrey is my name and Zhilin is my surname. I am seventeen years old. I want to tell you a few words about my family. My family is not large. I have got mother, father and grandmother. There are four of us in the family.

First of all some words about my parents. My mother is a teacher of biology. She works at school. She likes her profession. She is a good-looking woman with brown hair. She is 44 but she looks much younger.

My father is a programmer. He is forty-six. My father often sings and when we are at home and have some free time I play the guitar and we sing together. He is also handy with many things. When he was small he liked to take everything to pieces. My grandmother told me a story that once my father tried to repair their kitchen clock but without success. They had to give it to a repairman. But it happened a long time ago. Now he can fix almost everything.

My parents have been married for 18 years. They have much in common, but they have different views on music, books, and films. For example my father likes horror films and my mother likes soap operas. My father is fond of tennis. My mother doesn’t go in for sports.

My parents are hard working people. My mother keeps house and takes care of my father and me. She is very good at cooking. My grandmother is a pensioner. She lives with us and helps to run the house. She is fond of knitting.

I want to become a student. I’d like to learn foreign languages. I always try to be in a good mood.

We have got a lot of relatives.