G fu tu re forms: present continuous, going to, w ill / won’t Are you seeing

V fa m ily adjectives o f personality No, I’m going to

your grandparents
P sentence stress, word stress, adjective endings stay home. I'll
this weekend?
probably see them

IB
next weekend.

Family life

1 V O C A B U L A R Y & S P E A K IN G
family
a Look at some photos showing family members.
W hat’s happening in each one? W hat do you think the
relationship is between the people?

b With a partner, explain the difference between

each pair.
1 a father and a parent
2 a mother and a stepmother
3 a brother and a brother-in-law
4 a grandfather and a great-grandfather
5 a nephew and a niece
6 a child and an only child
7 your immediate family and your extended family
c Read Changing—f o r the better and try to guess what
the missing percentages are. Choose from the list.

11% 43 % 60 % 67 % 75% Changing -

d ly 15))) Listen and check. Do any o f th e statistics
surprise you? Which ones do you think would be very
d iffe re nt if the survey was taken in your country?
for the better?
am ily life is changing in th e US, bu t not in th e way
e Work in small groups. Say what you think and give
reasons.
F we m ight th in k . The re su lts of several d ifferen t
US surveys expected to find th a t fam ily relationship s
w ere su fferin g because of th e d ecline in trad ition al
D o y o u t h in k th a t...? fam ily stru ctu re s.
• families should have a meal together every day However, some o f th e re su lts w ere very su rprising...
• children should leave home as soon as they can
afford to of young of adults 30-34
• parents and their teenaged children should spend adults under still live at home
a lot of time together 25 and with their parents.
• parents should be friends with their children on
social networking sites, e.g., Twitter
• elderly parents should live with their children
when they are too old to live alone of families eat together every day.

Useful language:
Giving your opinion (2)
We often use should + verb to say what we think is the say they have the TV on during
right thing or a good thing (to do), e.g., dinner.
I think families should have dinner together every day
because...
I don’t think parents should be friends with their children think a new baby in
on Twitter because... the family brings more
happiness.