RfI Unit 11 Family and society - vocabulary revision

RfI Unit 11 Family and society - vocabulary revision

Let's check how much you remember from Unit 11 - please don't use articles when answering the questions.

Multiple Choice

We cannot release the names of the soldiers who were killed until we have informed their ___________.

• people

• tribe

• next of kin

• ancestors

next of kin

noun [ C ]UK  /ˌnekst əv ˈkɪn/ US  /ˌnekst əv ˈkɪn/plural next of kin

 

the person or group of people you are most closely related to

直系亲属

Multiple Choice

I have aunts and uncles on my mother's __________ of the family.

• side

• kin

• part

• wing

Multiple Choice

Our family tree can be ___________ to the last century, so I know the names of my ancestors going back four generations.

• drawn

• traced

• followed

• raised

Multiple Choice

I wonder what it was about her __________ that made her so insecure.

• bringing up

• upbringing

• raising

• raise

bring up vs raise

bring a child up = raise a child / noun = upbringing

Her parents died when she was a baby and she was raised by her grandparents.

raise = grow (crops)

raise = breed (animals)

The farmer raises (= breeds) chickens and pigs.

The soil around here isn't good enough for raising (= growing) crops.

Stages of life

Reading page 153

"It takes a village to raise a child"

is an African proverb that means that an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment.

New words in the reading

• NOUNS: calamity = crisis, emergency, disaster | initiation = [ U ] formal an occasion when something starts | ritual = 例行公事，老规矩 | curse = 说咒语，施魔咒

• VERB (PHRASES): seek counsel = look for advice, precede = come/be before, preside = be in charge of a formal meeting, accord due respect = show the respect sb deserves, take precedence over = be more important than, procreate = to produce young, parcel out (land) = divide land, transcend (age) = go further, raise above

• nuclear family, extended family, immediate family

• pass the baton = pass your responsibility to somebody else

transcend = go further, rise above

transcendence

transcendental