My Family (1)

   I want to tell you about my family. It is not very big. It consists of four members. I have got mother, a father and a brother.

   My mother's name is Maria. She is 40. She is a financial worker. She works at Baltiyskij Bank. My mother is very clever and she is a very good worker. Her colleagues appreciate her very much. My mother likes reading books and magazines and she knows a lot of interesting things. My mother is my friend who is always ready to help me in difficult situations.

   My father's name is Dmitrij and he is 41 years old. He is an architect. He works for a construction company. He is very good at Maths and Physics. He draws schemes and plans of buildings. My father’s hobby is sport. He plays tennis at the week-ends and goes to gym. I want to be as strong as my father.

   My elder brother Alexei is 21. He is a student already and he studies in Saint-Petersburg State University. He is in his fourth year. He is going to be a programmist. Most of his time he spends at his computer. I like my brother but I don’t want to look like him. I prefer to spend my free time outdoors. And he very seldom goes out with me and daddy.

   My grandparents live in the country. Every summer we go there for a couple of weeks. I like my grandparents, their village and their animals. My grandmother Olga is 63. She bakes wonderful cakes. My grandfather is 66. In the country I usually swim and sunbathe with my friends. I have lots of friends there who came to their grandparents like me. We spend all the days together. My parents usually go to the forest and pick up berries and mushrooms. We also help our grandmother and grandfather to feed their animals.

   I love my family. We are very friendly and happy to live together.

My Family (2)

   Our family is large (small, not very large). We are the family of seven (two, three, four, five, six): my mother, my father, my grandmother, my grandfather, my sister, my brother and I. My mother's name is ... She is ... years old. She is a teacher (a doctor, a worker, an engineer). She is a very nice, kind and clever woman. My father's name is ... He is ... years old. He is a worker (a teacher, an engineer, a doctor, a businessman). He is rather tall and strong. He is a man of strong character — and all of us love him very much. My grandmother's name is ... She is ... years old. She does not work now, she is a pensioner, but she has a lot of work to do about the house. All of us try to help her. My grandfather's name is... He is... years old. He is a pensioner too. My brother and sister are students (pupils). Their names are ... They are older (younger) than me. We are a very good family. We love each other very much. In the evenings, when all the members of our family get together after work and study, we like to watch TV, to read books and newspapers, to talk about different things and to discuss all our problems together. When the weather is good we sometimes go for a walk. We have a small house in the country with a garden and a kitchen garden. There is much work there and on weekends we go there and work and have rest all together.