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LESSON 2
UNIT 3: MY FAMILY
PART I. VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION

Exercise 1: Rearrange the letters to complete the family words

1. ehfrta ________________ 9. gandetohrrm______________

2. mehtor ________________ 10. scunoi ________________

3. hobrrte ________________ 11. maeirdr ________________

4. ons ______________ 12. fiew ________________

5. tuhgdaer ________________ 13. dsbahun ________________

6. rseits ________________ 14. dntgarfehra_______________

7. nuecl ________________ 15. family ________________

8. tuan ________________ 16. glesin ________________

Exercise 2: Using the family tree, type the relationships in the boxes below

1. Anne is George's . 11. John is Bob's .

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2. George is Anne's . 12. John is Kate's .

3. George is Kate's . 13. Anne is Lyn's .

4. Anne is Bob's . 14. George is John's .

5. Kate is Anne's . 15. Lyn is George's .

6. Bob is George's . 16. John is Anne's .

7. Bob is Kate's . 17. George is Bob's .

8. Susan is Phil's . 18. Lyn is John's .

9. Kate’s John's . 19. Lyn and John are Anne's .

10. Lyn is Kate's . 20. George and Anne are Kate’s .

Exercise 3: Complete the following sentences with a suitable word beginning with a given
letter
1. There are five members in my f_ _ _ _ _: my father, my mother, my two sisters and me.
2. I have a little b_ _ _ _ _ _. He is very naughty but lovely.
3. My g_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is eighty years old but he still remembers everything about his school
days.
4. I have two c_ _ _ _ _ _ _, a son and a daughter. My son is five and my daughter is seven.
5. There are four people in my family including my w_ _ _, my son, my daughter and me.
6. Her father’s brother is her u_ _ _ _. He works in a factory.
7. Her mother’s very tall but her father’s s_ _ _ _.
8. David is one of the most h_ _ _ _ _ _ _ boys in our class.
9. Jenny and Linda are twin s_ _ _ _ _ _. Both of them like playing basketball.
10. Mary is so b_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that most of the boys in my class love her.

PART 2: GRAMMAR

Exercise 1: Write the correct plural of these words

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1. Bus 6. child

2. Potato 7. knife

3. Family 8. boy

4. class 9. lady

5. Student 10. son

Exercise 2: Write the correct plural of these words

1. These (person) _____ are friendly.

2. The (woman) _____ over there are my sisters.

3. My (child) _____like eating ice-cream.

4. I clean my (tooth) _____ three times a day.

5. There are fifty (student) _____ in my class.

6. I have got two (son) _____. They are (pupil)_____ in high school.

7. My son have a beautiful (girlfriend) _______and she has got two (brother)_____.

8. There are some big (shelf) _______in my bedroom and there are a lot of interesting
(book)________ here.

Exercise 3: Write the correct sentences basing on the given words

1. How many / brother / sisters/ you/ have?

2. There/ be/a reading room /my house/ and/ there/ be/ a lot of/ book.

3. Marry/ have /a younger sister/?/

4. He/ have got/ two/ uncle/ but/ he/have/got/ no/an/ aunt.

5. Mary’s/ family/ have/ large/ house/ the countryside.

Exercise 4: Find the mistake in each sentence and correct it

1. My childrens’ (A) pets are (B) cute and lovely so (C) they love (D) them very much.
2. There is (A) a spoon, two dishes (B) and two knifes (C) in (D) the kitchen.
3. There are (A) a garden in my (B) house where my mother grows (C) trees and (D) vegetables.
4. Have (A) you got your mother’s (B) phone number? – Yes, I do (C). It’s (D) 0989 900 089.
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5. Mr and Mrs. Brown are (A) very rich (B). They has (C) got a vila and two modern cars (D).
6. There are (A) two bookshelf (B) in my (C) room and there are (D) also a lot of interesting books
here.
7. I haven’t (A) any (B) bothers or sisters but I have (C) two closest cousins (D).
8. How many book (A) are there (B) in (C) the library? – Sorry, I can’t remember (D) exactly.
9. There are (A) three child (B) in our (C) family. They all like (D) singing and dancing.
10. Has (A) her children (B) got any cousins (C)? - Yes, of course. They have got (D) three
cousins.
PART III. SPEAKING
Activity 1: Mouth- to-Mouth
 Divide the class into 2 groups, each group stands in line
 Tutor whispers one of family words they have learnt to the first member of each group
 Each member of one group takes turn to whisper to the next students that word, still the
last member.
 The last member in each line has to pronounce loudly that word. If he/she pronounces
correctly (intonation, pronunciation and stress), his/ her group will get 2 points, in case
he/she has mistakes, the group will get 1 plus.
 After the game, which group has higher score will be the winner.
Activity 2: Secret words
 Tutor prepares some cards, each card contains 10 different singular Nouns they have
learnt in the lesson
 Divide the class into 2 groups, stand in line of 10 people face to face.
 Each group get one card from the tutor and one student in the group 1 read aloud one
singular Noun in the card and one student in the group 2 read aloud the plural Noun
which he/she has just changed from singular to plural one.
 The members in each group have to pronounce loudly those 2 words (singular and plural).
If he/she pronounce correctly (intonation, pronunciation and stress), he/she will get 2
points.
 After the game, which group has higher score will be the winner.

Activity 3: Who am I?

Fill in the correct member of the family. Introduce this family to your partner.

You should say:

- How many members there are
- Who they are
- How old they are

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1. My father is 65 years old. His name is Tom.

2. My____________________is 62. Her name is______________________

3. I have got a_________________________. She is 37.

4. My_____________________is 40and there four ______________in their family.

5. I have got a________ .His nameis ____________________..He is 10.

6. My____________________is called _______– She is a teacher at University.

7. Do you know who am I? My name is____________________

Activity 4: Talk about your family to the class.

My name is………There are ….people in my family. They are my ………..

PART IV. READING

Exercise 1

Task 1: Read the text and complete the family tree

The Simpsons family is very big. Homer’s father is Abraham, and Homer’s mother is Mona. Herb
is the brother of Homer. Homer’s wife is Marge. Her father is Clancy and her mother is Jackie.
Marge has two sisters, Patty and Selma. Selma has a cute daughter, Ling. Homer and Marge
have three children. The son is Bart and the two daughters are Lisa and Maggie. Maggie is a
baby.

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(1) (2)

(3) (4) (5) (6)

(7) (8) (9) (10)

1. 6.

2. 7.

3. 8.

4. 9.

5. 10.

Task 2: Read the text again and write down T (True) or F (False)

11. The Simpsons family is small __________

12. Marge has one brother and one sister. __________

13. Ling is Selma’s daughter. __________

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14. Homer and Marge have got three children. __________

15. Homer and Marge have two sons and one daughter. __________

Exercise 2: Read the text and answer the questions with NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
AND/ OR A NUMBER
My name is Petty and this is my husband, Phil. We both work in offices in London. We have
breakfast at half past seven. We don’t have a big breakfast. We usually have bread, coffee and
orange juice. For lunch we usually have a salad or soup and sandwich. That’s at about 1.30. We
usually have dinner at half past seven in the evening. It is a big meal of the day and we have
meat or fish with vegetables and potatoes or rice. We have orange juice with the milk. On
Saturday evenings we go to a restaurant for dinner at about eight o’clock.
1. Who is Phil?
2. Where are their offices?
3. What time do they usually have breakfast?
4. What is their big meal of the day?
5. Where do they have dinner on Saturday evenings?
PART V. WRITING
Exercise 1: Change the sentences below to the plural form
1. There’s a fly in my soup.
…………………………………………………………………………………
2. The shelf is full of books.
…………………………………………………………………………………
3. The policeman is in the office.
…………………………………………………………………………………
4. This church is old.
…………………………………………………………………………………
5. I love the red dress.
……………………………………………………………………………….
6. The woman over there is my teacher.
………………………………………………………………………………
7. My child is at school now.
……………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise 2: Rewrite these sentences using the possessive ’s
1. My parents have got a car, it is very old.
…………………………………………………………………………………
2. Mackie and Sarah are my best friends.
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…………………………………………………………………………………
3. The children are in the room, their room is messy
…………………………………………………………………………………
4. Her babies have new and expensive toys.
……………………………………………………………………………….
5. The girls over there have colorful clothes.
………………………………………………………………………………
Exercise 3: Write some sentences about your family basing on the following suggested
questions:
1. How many people are there in your family?
2. Who are they?
3. What are their names?
4. How old are they?
5. Who is the person you love most in your family?

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