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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Family Vocabulary

Activity Type Introduction

Reading and writing This family vocabulary worksheet helps students to learn and
activity practice words that describe families and relationships.

Procedure
Language Focus
Give each student a copy of the two-page worksheet.
Family and relationships
vocabulary
Students begin with a gap-fill exercise where they complete a text
about a family using vocabulary from a box.
Aim
Exercise A - Answer key
To practice family
relationships vocabulary. 1. got married 4. twins 7. boy 10. daughter
2. children 5. child 8. twin 11. triplets
3. girls 6. husband 9. wife 12. son
Preparation
Students then circle the correct word or phrase in sentences to
Make one copy of the
describe the family relationships in the text.
two-page worksheet for
each student.
Exercise B - Answer key

Level 1. sister 4. sister and brother 7. uncle 10. aunt

2. mother 5. twin brother 8. grandson
Pre-intermediate (A2) 3. son 6. triplets and a boy 9. cousins

Next, students read descriptions that come from the point of

Time view of people in Part A and write the name of the person each
30 minutes description is about.

Exercise C - Answer key

1. Judith 3. Monica 5. Amy

2. Kevin 4. Bruce 6. Barbara

In the last exercise, students write sentences using the vocabulary

from the worksheet to describe their own family relationships or
those of a family they know.

Afterwards, review the students' sentences together as a class

and provide feedback.

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 FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Family Vocabulary

A. Complete the text about a family using the vocabulary from the box.

boy child children daughter girls got married

husband son triplets twin twins wife

Edward and Katherine (1) .......................... in 1940. In the

next 10 years, they had five (2) .......................... The first two,

Barbara and Linda, were (3) .........................., born two years

apart. The next three were boys: the (4) .........................., Frank

and Joe, and their last (5) .........................., Bruce.

After the children grew up, they all got married and had children of their own. Barbara

and her (6) .........................., William, had two boys, Michael and Jason. Linda and her

husband, Jerry, had two girls, Melissa and Nicole, and a (7) .........................., Ryan. Frank

married a woman named Judith, and they had (8) .......................... boys, Eric and Kevin.

Joe and his (9) .........................., Carol, had only one child, a girl. They named their

(10) .......................... Monica. Bruce and his wife, Elaine, had (11) ..........................,

all girls: Amy, Megan, and Lisa. The next year, they had a boy. They named their

(12) .......................... Keith.

B. Circle the correct word or phrase in the sentences to describe the family relationships
in the text above.

1. Nicole is Melissa's child / sister / mother / daughter.

2. Katherine is Linda's daughter / sister / mother / grandmother.

3. Michael is William's father / son / boy / twin.

4. Nicole and Ryan are mother and son / sister and brother / twins / triplets.

5. Eric is Kevin's older brother / younger brother / twin brother.

6. Bruce and Elaine had twins and a boy / twins and a girl / triplets and a boy / triplets and a girl.

7. Bruce is Monica's father / brother / cousin / uncle.

8. Jason is Edward's son / grandson / brother / uncle.

9. Michael and Melissa are cousins / twins / triplets / brother and sister.

10. Barbara is Kevin's sister / cousin / aunt / grandmother.

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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Family Vocabulary

C. Each description comes from the point of view of a person in Part A. Read about the
relationships and then write the name of the person each description is about.

Descriptions Names

1. M
 elissa and Nicole are my nieces, and Michael and Jason are
my nephews. Katherine is my mother-in-law. I don't have any
daughters, only sons.

2. M
 y grandparents had five children, and they all had children, so I
have a lot of cousins. I also have a twin. My brother and I are the
same age, but my name has one more letter than his name has.

3. O
 ne of my parents has a twin, and one of my uncles is a father to
twins. However, I don't have a twin.

4. I am the youngest of my siblings. My son is also the youngest of his

siblings.

5. M
 y two sisters and I are kind of the same. That is, we look the same,
but we're all different. I have the shortest name. My brother is only a
year younger than us, so we're all very close in age.

6. I am the oldest child in my family. As a child, I had fun playing with

my sister and brothers, and now our children have fun together. I
have lots of nephews and nieces. My boys enjoy playing with their
cousins.

D. Write sentences about the people in your family or a family you know using the
vocabulary from the box.

aunt boy child cousin daughter

girl granddaughter grandfather grandmother grandson
husband married son uncle wife

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