My family

Person’s character

Task 3. Read and translate the text.

A few words about myself. My name is Ann. I was born in 1994 in Yekaterinburg. I live here with my family which is not very large: my mother, my father, my sister and I.

I’m seventeen/eighteen. I’m a student of the Ural State Pedagogical University (USPU), I’m going to be a teacher. I like studying here very much, though it’s sometimes difficult.

As you can see, I’m of a medium height and rather slim. My hair is dark, short and straight. I have brown eyes. They say I took after my mother in appearance.

As far as I can see my character is cheerful in general. I’m normally a happy and an optimistic person. I have a good sense of humor and consider myself a good mixer. I think my main shortcoming is that I’m hot-tempered sometimes, but this normally doesn’t affect my relations with people.

As for my preferences, I like watching good films, reading detective and love stories. As for sport I’m not very fond of it.

I try to do all the job about the house. I go shopping, clean the rooms and so on, but it’s not difficult for me. I’d like our home to be clean and tidy. I think home is the nicest place. And I’m sure that there is no place like home and there are no people dearer than your relatives.

My father is a businessman, he is very practical. As for my mother she is a housewife – she keeps house. My younger sister Helen is of school age, she is eleven. She resembles our parents very much. We get together every weekend to go for a walk or simply to talk.

Task 4. Speak about your own family.