My family

MY FAMILY
Speaking about my family ralationships

​Work in pairs

Multiple Choice

I’ve always had a good … with my grandparents.

• relationship

• relative

Multiple Choice

I think friends are just as important as … .

• relatives

• generations

Multiple Choice

Family members don’t have to enjoy each other’s … .

• admire

• company

Multiple Choice

I think it’s better to be an only child because you are never … of your siblings.

• jealous

• appreciate

Multiple Choice

I don’t get on … with some of my family members.

• good

• well

Multiple Choice

I think the best way to … the important people in your life is to tell them that you love them every day.

• welcome

• appreciate

Multiple Choice

I am closer to the family members from my … because we are a similar age.

• generation

• crowd

Match

Match the following

• be like chalk and cheese

• caring

• count on

• close-knit

• easy-going

be completely different from each other

kind and supportive to others

be confident that you can depend on smn

bound together by strong relationship

relaxed and tolerant

• be completely different from each other

• kind and supportive to others

• be confident that you can depend on smn

• bound together by strong relationship

• relaxed and tolerant

Match

Match the following

• the head of the family

• keep oneself to oneself

• see eye to eye on something

• take after

usually the eldest person in the family

spend a lot of time alone

agree with someone about something

to look or behave like an older relative

• usually the eldest person in the family

• spend a lot of time alone

• agree with someone about something

• to look or behave like an older relative

Labelling

Label the gaps with the correct phrases

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

count on

easy-going

are like chalk and cheese

take after

keep myself to myself

close-knit

the head of the family

see eye to eye

caring

Work in pairs

• Change the sentences to make them true for you. Discuss your ideas with a partner. How much do you have in common?

• Read your sentences to your partner (checking homework)

Categorize

Options (9)

regular, repeated actions or

states;

future timetables actions;

if-clauses in Conditionals 0 and I;

V1

/ V + (e)s

an event that is happening now;

an arrangement for the future;

am / is / are V + ing

when the agent is unknown,

unimportant or obvious from the

context.

am / is / are V3

Organize these options into the right categories

Present Simple

Present Continuous

Present Simple Passive

Categorize

Options (6)

an event that happened once

or several times during a period of

time up to now;

an event that has happened at

an unstated time in the past and

has an important result in

present

have / has V3

an action that started in the

past and continues up to now;

an unfi nished action in the past;

have / has been V + ing

Organize these options into the right categories

Present Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous