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English Audio Request

TheDoctor
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I live with my family in a big flat in the centre of Prague. Our family is quite big. I have father, mother, two brothers and a sister.
My father’s name is George and he is 52 years old. He works as a manager in a bank. He often comes home late in the morning and he also often goes on business trips. He is slim and tall, has got a round face and short straight brown hair and wears glasses. My father likes sports and travelling, in summer we usually go abroad. He likes gardening as well.
My mother’s name is Marie and she is 48 years old. She is a teacher at university where I study. She is small and slim, has short wavy brown hair and blue eyes. She is always very cheerful and in a good mood and because she likes children I have so many siblings. She also likes travelling. In winter she likes skiing. We have a cottage with a garden and so she often works there.
My older brother Peter is 26 years old. He is slim and has short brown hair and glasses like our father. He has already finished his studies at university. He likes sports and wants to work as a manager of a football team. He has got a girlfriend named Monika, a very nice red-haired girl, who studies English and Czech languages. She wants to be a teacher like my mother. They plan to get married, but they do not have money to buy a flat. They would like to stay with us until they find a place to live, but my mother does not like this idea. Although she is looking forward to grandchildren, she believes that young people should first arrange their lives, buy or rent a flat and find good jobs and only after that they can have a family. But I look forward to their wedding. It is a nice day for the whole family. All the relatives are invited and there is plenty of food and drinks and a lot of fun. Newlyweds get many presents, both useful and useless. To avoid useless presents, some couples prepare a wedding list and everyone who wants to buy a present, can choose from it.
My younger brother Max is 18 years old. He is also tall and slim, with dark brown hair and eyes. He has a lot of friends and on weekends he goes out to the disco. He also likes to play on the computer, to play football and ride a bike. Often he goes on dates with his girlfriend, but his girlfriends change often because attracts girls. Max studies at the gymnasium and he would like to continue on university. He is interested in economy and he would like to work in a bank like our father.
I also have a small sister named Monica. She is only 12 years old and she is our parents’ darling. She is small, has blond hair and big blue eyes. Everybody loves her and no one can deny anything she wants. I think she is a little bit spoiled.
I have a lot of uncles and aunts, but only one grandmother and one grandfather. My father’s parents died when he was a child. My mother’s parents are pensioners and live in a small house near our town. My grandmother is small and slim, she is often ill. My grandfather is very nice. He is very friendly and always has time for us. I love them both very much. We go to see them nearly every weekend. When we were small children we spent holidays in their house with our cousins.
My family is very important to me. My parents are very friendly and nice although sometimes they are tired and become moody or sad. But I can rely on them and they always help me. My family is a model family for me. My parents agree that both man and woman have specific roles in the family: a woman should raise the children and a man should be able to repair household equipment, but together they prepare meals, look after us, do shopping, spend and save money and organize the leisure time. They have common hobbies as well as individual ones. But they respect each other and are tolerant to their children. In the future I would like to have a family like ours.

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