Business Oral English lesson 18 - Family life

[招财进宝]Sentence 1

你家有几口人

How many people do your family have?

How many people are there in your family?

你对你的家庭生活满意吗

Are you satisfied with your family life?

处理好工作和家庭生活的关系很难

It’s hard to balance work and family.

It’s so hard to handle well the relationship between work and family.

家庭永远是第一位的

Family always comes first

顾客永远是第一位的

Customer always comes first

[给力]Supplyments:

Family structure 家庭结构

nuclear family 比较传统的家庭

extended family 比较多代同堂的家庭

DINK (Double Income Nokids) 丁克家庭

relations 直系/血亲亲属

relatives 范围更远的亲属

nephew 侄子

niece 侄女

cousin 表兄妹;堂兄妹

sister-in-law 大嫂

brother-in-law 小舅子、连襟

stepfather 继父

stepmother 继母

[招财进宝]Sentence 2

你和父母相处的融洽吗？

how do you get along well with your parents?

Do you live in hormony with your parents?

你怎么看待离婚？

What do you think about divorce?

我刚和我的女朋友分手了

I just broke up with my girlfriend.

我们的关系真的很密切铁

We’re really tight/close

[给力]Supplyments:

Love and marriage 相爱和结婚流程

fall in love (at first sight 一见钟情) 掉入爱河

date her 约会

get dumped 被甩了

say goodbye to her 说再见

still in love

engage oneself to the other 订婚

get married 结婚

get divorced 离婚

珍惜你现在所拥有的，因为你不确定明天你会得到什么

cherish what you have now, because you’re not sure of what you’re gonna get tomorrow

[击掌]Dialogue1:

A- What does your family do on weekends?

B- We usually go on a picnics and have a barbecue. how about your family?

A- My father works on weekends so we usually don’t go anywhere.

B- Doesn’t he get weekends off? 难道他周末都不休息吗

[给力]Supplyments:

have a picnic-picnicker野炊者

go on a picnic 野炊

be no picnic 并非易事

living abroad is no picnic在国外生活并非易事

He always works overtime 他总是加班

Are you on the day shift or night shift? 你是白班还是夜班？

we can’t go anywhere 我们哪也去不了

You need a day off 你需要休一天假