Dialogue 9

A: Excuse me, Miss Black. Do you have a big family?

B: Not very big, but I don’t think it’s small. I have two brothers. The older one is married.

A: Do your brother and his wife have any children?

B: Yes. My sister-in-law（嫂子）gave birth to twins last March.

A: Boys or girls?

B: A boy and a girl.

A: Oh, how lucky they are!

B: In China, there are still quite a lot of large families.

A: I agree with you. Thanks to the “one-child” policy（政策）, less and less families now have more than one child. So more and more families are becoming richer and richer.