Family
Dictionaries define family as 'a group of' people consisting of one or two parents and their children'. Living in a family is important for every human being. Our parents take care of us from our births until we grow up; we are often loved and even spoiled by our grandparents, uncles and aunts. We are related to our families by blood. We may live far from them, but we always try to keep in touch with them.
A family consists of people who are socially related to one another. Family members should respect one another. Word family should involve people who love me and will be always here for me if I need them and home should imagine a place where I can return whenever I need it and its door will be always open for me. But when home is said, it is different meaning for different people. For little children is it parents who care about them and brothers/sisters who they play with. For housewife it means a lot of work, for example cooking or caring about children. For teenager home means only strict rules, arguments about behaviour or school results and pocket money.
I think this imagine a big generation gap between teenagers and their parents. The reason is misunderstanding. Teenagers could see only their friends and fun and their parents can’t understand how important it is for them. They are sure that school should be at first place and sometimes make strict rules for their children. Teenagers break these rules and then number of arguments arise. So they don’t like spending their time at home and they are rather somewhere with their friends. I think this is the reason why some students go to university in another place away from their parents and far from home. They could be there eventually independent and unrestricted.
There are many types of families:
a)nuclear family - consists of a mother, father and children
b)one-parent/single-parent family – there is only one parent
c)extended family – more generations live in one family ( for example mother,
father, children, grandparents)
I want to have my own family when I will be about 30 or 35 years old. At first I want to finish university, find some well paid job and earn enough money. As I think money are very important in this time and I want to provide my children.
I think is isn’t good in general to get married too early. Some couples get married when they are 18 years old and they have often children very early. I am not sure it is good for them because I think that they are too young to know exactly who they want to spend their life with and how. As I heard a lot of these marriages don’t persist long time and finished with divorce.
Another disadvantage of these marriages is lack of money. They usually don’t have well paid jobs, so they don’t have enough money for their own living and they must live with their parents.
Family – slovná zásoba
family backroundrodinné zázemie
ancestorpredok
descendantpotomok
marital statusmanželský stav
singleslobodný
marriedženatý/vydatá
divorcedrozvedený
separatedodlúčený
widowvdova
widowervdovec
orphan sirota
engagementzasnúbenie
to be engadedbyť zasnúbený
fiancésnúbenec
fiancéesnúbenica
wedding-religiouscirkevná svadba
without a religious ceremonybez cirkevného obradu
registry officematrika
bride attendantsz nevestinej strany
wedding breakfastsvadobná hostina
wedding cakesvadobná torta
honeymoonmedové týždne , svadobná cesta
wedding anniversaryvýročie svadby
relative/relationsvzťahy
next of kinnajbližšia rodina
kinshippríbuzenstvo
spousemanžel
husbandmanžel
wifemanželka
offspringpotomkovia
sonsyn
daughterdcéra
twinsdvojčatá
siblingssúrodenci
sistersestra
brotherbrat
half-brothernevlastný brat
step-sisternevlastná sestra
in-lawsšvagrovci
mother in lawsvokra
sister in-lawšvagriná
granparentsstarí rodičia
great –grandfatherpradedo
nieceneter
nephewsynovec
cousinsesternica, bratranec
uncleujo
auntteta
adultsdospelí
childrendeti
babynemluvňa
toddlerbatoľa
teenagerteenager
adolescentdospievajúci
grown updospelý
family relatinshipsvzťahy v rodine
take after someonepodať sa na niekoho
get on withvychádzať s niekým
respectrešpektovať
admire/look up toobdivovať niekoho
bring up/raise a childvychovávať dieťa
rearvychovať