MEETING 3

FAMILY

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students are expected to be able to talk about their family with classmates.

MATERIALS
1. Listening: WordPower
Look at the following picture. Complete the sentences about Paul’s family. Then listen and
check your answers.

Fig 1. Paul’s Family Tree

1. Anne is Paul’s wife.
2. Jason and Emily are their sibling
3. Paul is Anne’s husband
4. Jason is Anne’s son
5. Emily is Paul’s daughter
6. Jason is Emily’s brother
7. Emily is Jason’s sister
8. Paul and Anne are Jason’s parents
Now look at Sam’s family tree. How are these people related to him? Add the words on the
left side of the picture to complete the blank in the family tree.

Fig 2. Sam’s Family Tree

2. Conversation
Please practice the conversation with a partner!
Andi : Hi Dwi. How are youdoing?
Dwi : Good. How aboutyou?
Andi : Fine. Dwi, do you have any brother or sister?
Dwi : Yes, I do. I have two brothers and one sister.
Andi : Can you tell me more aboutthem?
Dwi : Sure. My older sister is 34 years old. My first younger brother, Tri, is 25 years
old. And my youngest brother, Tio, is 20 yearsold.
Andi : So what number are you in yourfamily?
Dwi : I am the second child in my family. How about you, Andi? Do you have any
brother/sister?
Andi : I have four brothers, but nosister.
Dwi : Tell me about your brothers,please.
Andi : My brother is 12 years old. He is like swimming and playing football

3. Grammar Focus: PossessiveAdjective

Personal Pronoun Possessive Adjective Possessive Pronoun

I My Mine
You Your Yours
They Their Theirs
We Our Ours
He His His
She Her Hers
It Its -

We use possessive adjectives:

 to show something belongs tosomebody:

That's our house.
My car is very old.

 for relations andfriends:

My mother is a doctor.
How old is your sister?

 for parts of thebody:

He's broken his arm.
She's washing her hair.
I need to clean my teeth.
Note: For someone’s name, just add apostrophe + s in the name. For example:
- Anne is Paul’s wife.
- Jason is Emily’s brother
EXERCISE
Please study the following family tree along with the description. Once you finish
studying it, please draw your own family tree and describe it to a partner

Fig 3.Pahmi’s Family Tree

Hello. My name is Pahmi. Now I want to talk about my family. I have a father and a
mother. My father is 54 years old, and my mother is 52 years old. I have two
sisters. My older sister is Yeni. She is married. Her husband’s name is Gunawan.
They have one daughter and one son. I am married too. My wife’s name is
NovfelaningrumEdjuista. We have one daughter named Pamela AleshaPutri. She
is four years old. My younger sister is Rosmiza. She is married to Aldi.