Talking about

my family

SPEAKING

LEVEL NUMBER LANGUAGE

Beginner A1_1038S_EN English
Goals

■ Can talk about my family

using very simple terms.

■ Can ask and answer basic

questions about family
members and their
physical appearance.

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 Who is in your family?
Where does your family live?
How old are your parents?

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Pronunciation

mother

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Pronunciation

mother father

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Pronunciation

mother father brother

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Pronunciation

mother father brother weather

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Pronunciation

mother father brother weather other

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Pronunciation

mother father brother weather other

The th sound in these words is voiced.

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 Talk about these people

A B

mother father

C D

grandmother grandfather

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Talking about your family

mother

wife father

husband son

sister daughter

brother

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My family

There are four people in my family.

My husband is a doctor.

My wife is a teacher.

My daughter is eight years old.

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Dictogloss

Your teacher is going to read to you.

Write down what you hear them say.

ab
c

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Describe your family

family
husband wife

related to
son
siblings daughter
parents grandparents
live together
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Question Words

what

how far where

how tall when

how old why

who

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Brainstorm

Think of five questions

to ask about family.

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Brainstorm

Now try to answer those

questions about this family.

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Brainstorm

Try to answer those questions

about this woman and this girl.

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Talk about these pictures

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Talk about these pictures

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Your family

Write about someone you are related to.

Use adjectives, nouns and verbs from this unit.

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Find out

Use the words below to ask a classmate about

their family member from the previous activity.

what who where

height weight age

tall thin pretty

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Ask questions

■ …has a brother.
■ …is married.
■ …has children.
■ …has long, dark hair.

Share what you learned with the class!

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Reflect on the goals

Go back to the second slide of the lesson and check

if you have achieved all the goals of the lesson.

yes no

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Reflect on this lesson

Think about everything you have seen in this lesson.

What were the most difficult activities or words? The easiest?

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If you have time, go over
the most difficult slides again

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I am twenty five years old. There are five people in my family. My father is a teacher.
My mother is a policewoman. My parents live in London.
My brothers are twenty years old and eighteen years old.
I love my family very much.
Listen to your teacher
Homework

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Complete the lists

what mother tall bright

cousin who sibling dark

why pretty when uncle

Question Person Adjective

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Pronunciation

Which words from this lesson are difficult to say out loud?
The pronunciation pages have some examples.

Pronunciation

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Text at the beginning

Go back to the text on page 3

and read the text out loud.
Was it easy?

Write the words

you find difficult to say

from the text on slide 3.

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Imagine a conversation

Imagine a conversation between you and a friend.

Write a dialogue using the phrases and words on page 4.
You can use sentences from pages 5 and 6.

Hello! My friend…

Do you…? I am…

How are you? Good-bye!

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Exercise p.24
Question: what – who – why – when
Person: mother – cousin – sibling – uncle
Adjective: tall – bright – dark – pretty
Homework answer key
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