Family life

Today we will

• ask and answer Wh- questions
• talk about families

Vocabulary: family

Find the right order

• rnpaste
• nucle
• tmreho
• scniou
• nuta
• erotbhr
• rstise
• hatfer
• gmtrdnohrea

Match words with their meanings

• son of your sister or brother cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• daughter of your sister or brother cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• children of your uncle and aunt cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• husband of your sister cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• daughter of your children cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• father of your grandparents cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter
• your father’s new wife cousins stepmother great-grandfather niece brother-in-law nephew granddaughter

Match the words in the box to the definitions

• aunt a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• colleague a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• cousin a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• daughter a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• grandfather a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• mother-in-law a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• pet a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister

• nephew a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• niece a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• son a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• son-in-law a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• uncle a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• best friend a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister
• neighbour a person who lives very near you a person you work with an animal that lives with the family your male child your aunt's (or your uncle's) child your brother's (or your sister's) daughter your closest friend your daughter's husband your mother's (or your father's) sister

Reading

Listen and read the article and answer the questions about the people:

Vera Shona

Vera was born in Clapham, south London. Her parents were both originally from Zimbabwe, but came to England to work. After school Vera studied nursing at South Bank University. At university, she met her future husband, Farai, who was born in Zimbabwe and who was also a nurse. The couple got married and two years later, they had a baby boy, Moyo. They then decided to go and live in Zimbabwe, 'Both Farai and wanted to go back to our roots,' said Vera.

They found jobs with a medical charity and left London to begin their new life in a small village in the north of the country. Vera and Farai run a health centre. but it is the only building in the village with electricity. Vera's son travels to a neighbouring village to go to school.

Judy Boehmer

Judy had her first child, Adam, 27 years ago. She now has four sons and seven daughters and a pet dog, Bosco, but she wants more boys. Judy and her husband, Larry, live in Atlanta, Georgia, but they also have a 10-metre-long motor home. The family sometimes travels more than 40,000 kilometres a year for their work. The children do not go to school, but they study at home with their parents.

The Boehmers are a circus family and all the children take part in the show. They do different kinds of juggling and Margaret, the youngest, stands on one leg in her mother's hand. The first show of the Boehmer Family Jugglers was at a theme park in Iowa, and they now perform all over America.

Questions

In English there are two kinds of questions:

Wh- questions - questions with a question word

Yes/no questions - questions with no question word

Yes/no questions have a short answer.

What, where, when, who, why and how are question words.

Put them at the beginning of the question.

How are you?

Where are you from?

What is his name?

Who does he live with?

Why does he live at home?

Match the questions with the short answers

• Are you married?
• Yes, I was.
• Is your family very large?
• Yes, it is.
• Were you born in this town?
• Yes, there are.
• Is your father a good cook?
• No, I'm not.
• Are your parents from this town?
• No, he isn't.
• Are there many people with the same name as you?
• No, they aren't.

Rearrange the words to make questions

1 name what's your ?

2 last what's name your ?

3 language teacher you are a ?

4 you are a language student ?

5 are you old how ?

6 you are from where ?

Rearrange the words to make questions

1. are family how in many people there your ?
2. are names their what ?
3. are how old they ?
4. are hobbies their what ?
5. born parents were where your ?
6. family in is person the who youngest your ?
7. family holiday last was when your ?

Listening

Listen to a description of a typical English family. Put the topics in the order that you hear them.

Children

How many children are there? What are their names? How old are they? What are their hobbies?

Family pet

Is there a family pet? What is it? What is it called?

Food

When does the family eat together? What is their favourite food?

Weekends and holidays

What does the family do at the weekend? What do they do in the holidays?

Parents

What are the parents' names? How old are they? What are their jobs? What are their interests?

TV

What are the family's favourite TV programmes?

Speaking

Think about a typical family in your country. Make notes using the questions in listening task. Work in groups. Describe your typical family to each other.

Writing

Now I can

• Can you talk about families and family relations?
• Can you ask and answer Wh- questions?