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Talking About Your Family in English - Spoken English Lesson - YouTube
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Hi, I鈥檓 Oli.
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Welcome to Oxford Online English!
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In this lesson, you can learn how to talk
about your family in English.
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Do you have a big family?
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What do you like doing when you spend time
with your family?
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Talking about family can be a good way to
start a conversation in English, so it鈥檚
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useful if you know what to say and if you
have some questions to ask.
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Let鈥檚 start with something simple.
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Part one: introducing your family.
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Let鈥檚 start with a simple sentence:
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"There are ________ people in my family."
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So you can say:
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"There are five...
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There are ten...
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There are thirty people in my family."
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That鈥檚 not too hard, but it鈥檚 not so interesting,
either!
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You should say who these people are.
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"There are ten people in my family: I have
two sisters, one brother, my uncle and aunt,
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two grandparents and my parents of course."
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"There are four people in my family: my wife,
my two sons and myself."
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Part two: Talking about your brothers and
sisters.
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How many brothers and sisters do you have?
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You could say:
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"I have two brothers and one sister."
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"I just have one sister."
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"I鈥檓 an only child."
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Let鈥檚 make it more interesting by adding
more information.
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Are your brothers and sisters older or younger?
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Where are you in the family?
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"I have two older brothers and one older sister.
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I鈥檓 the youngest in the family."
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"I just have one sister, who鈥檚 five years
older than me."
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"I鈥檓 the middle child: my brother is two
years older, and I have a younger sister who鈥檚
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finishing university this year."
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Part three: talking about your immediate and
your extended family.
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In English, we sometimes draw a line between
your immediate family.
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That means: you, your husband/wife, your children,
parents, and brothers and sisters.
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Then, you have your extended family.
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That means: aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews,
nieces, grandparents, grandchildren, and so
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on.
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Now, you can give more details about the people
in your family, like this:
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"My immediate family is quite small, because
I鈥檓 an only child.
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My mum is one of five children, so I have
a lot of cousins, who are kind of like my
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brothers and sisters.
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There are six people in my immediate family:
my parents, my brother and his wife, my sister
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and me.
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I have a lot of other relatives, but they
live in Canada so we don鈥檛 see them often."
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Part four: talking about your children.
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Do you have children?
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Let鈥檚 see what you can say:
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"I have three kids: two girls and a boy."
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"We have a newborn son."
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"We have one daughter, and my wife鈥檚 expecting
our second child."
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As always, you should add details to make
your answers longer and more interesting:
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"I have three kids: two girls and a boy.
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Our eldest daughter has just started secondary
school, and the two younger ones are still
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in primary school."
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"We have a newborn son.
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He鈥檚 just three weeks old now, so we鈥檙e
still getting used to things!"
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"We have one daughter, and my wife鈥檚 expecting
our second child.
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We don鈥檛 know if it鈥檚 a boy or a girl,
but we鈥檒l find out in three months."
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Part five: talking about your relationship
with your family.
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Finally, let鈥檚 add some information about
how often you see your family, and what you
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like to do together.
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For example:
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"I鈥檓 very close to my family.
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We have lunch together every weekend."
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"I see my older brother once a week; we play
tennis or basketball together."
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"I try to spend as much time as possible with
my kids."
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What now?
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You should know the answer: add more details!
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Let's look:
"I鈥檓 very close to my family.
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We have lunch together every weekend at my
grandmother鈥檚 house.
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She always cooks something delicious!"
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"I see my older brother once a week; we play
tennis or basketball together.
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I don鈥檛 see my other brother so often, because
he lives overseas, although we talk on Skype
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every so often."
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"I try to spend as much time as possible with
my kids.
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We play cards, watch films, or go to the park
if the weather鈥檚 nice."
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Part six: making a longer answer.
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Now you should be able to make a longer answer
talking about your family.
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You should be able to talk about your relatives,
your brothers and sisters, your children if
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you have any, and your relationship with your
family.
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Let鈥檚 look at a sample answer:
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"There are five people in my immediate family,
although my extended family is quite large.
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I have two sisters, both younger, so I鈥檓
the oldest child.
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I don鈥檛 have kids yet but I鈥檇 like to
have a big family one day.
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I see my parents and my sisters quite often,
because we all live near each other, although
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I don鈥檛 see my other relatives that much."
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OK?
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Could you make an answer like this?
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Let鈥檚 look at one more sample answer first:
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"I come from a big family: I鈥檓 the fifth
child, and I have three brothers and one sister.
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They鈥檙e all close to each other in age,
but there鈥檚 a big gap between them and me.
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I don鈥檛 have children, but I have lots of
nieces and nephews!
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I don鈥檛 see my family often because I live
in a different country, but I speak to them
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regularly and we all get together once or
twice a year, which is always very noisy but
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lots of fun."
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What about you?
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Try to make a longer answer talking about
your family.
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Use the vocabulary and ideas from the lesson
to help you.
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Next time you talk about your family in English,
hopefully you鈥檒l have lots to talk about!
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That鈥檚 the end of the lesson.
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I hope it was useful.
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You can see more of our free English lessons
on our website: oxford online English dot
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com.
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Thanks very much for watching!
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See you next time.
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