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

see eye to eye

caring

count on

keep myself to myself

close-knit

easy-going

the head of the family

are like chalk and cheese

take after

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