Talking about
my family
SPEAKING
LEVEL NUMBER LANGUAGE
Beginner A1_1038S_EN English
Goals
■ Practice talking about your
family
■ Practice wh-questions and
adjectives in a conversation
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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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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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Describe your family
family
husband wife
related to
son
siblings daughter
parents grandparents
live together
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Questions
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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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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