UNIT] 4 4 Your family prvvvvrvrvwwwweve vee adopt verb to officially become the parent of someone else's child ancestor noun a member of your family who. lived long ago bring up phrasal verb (brings up, bringing up, brought up, brought up) to look after someone for all or most of their childhood brother-in-law noun (plural brothers-in-law) the husband of your sister, or the brother of someone's husband or wife dad noun | an informal name for your father daughter noun a female child of a particular parent or parents descendant noun a member of the same family as. ‘someone who lived at an earlier time Vocabulary divorced adjective no longer married elder adjective (used before noun) older than someone else, especially another member of the same family | eldest adjective (used before noun) the oldest among a group of people, especially members of the same family engaged adjective having promised to marry each other family tree noun a diagram showing how the members of a family are related to each other, often including those who lived long ago granddaughter noun the daughter of someone's daughter or son grandson noun the son of someone's daughter or son 83 Scanned by CamScannerhalf-brother noun a boy or man with only one of the same parents as you half-sister noun a girl or woman with only one of the same parents as you husband noun the man that a woman has married in-laws plural noun the relatives of someone's husband or wife marriage noun 1 the relationship between a husband and wife 2 the ceremony at which two people are married marry verb to make a formal promise at a special ceremony that you will ‘spend the rest of your life with the person you love mum noun an informal name for your mother nephew noun a son of your brother or sister niece noun a daughter of your brother or sister raise verb to bring up a child sibling noun a formal word for a brother or sister sister-in-law noun (plural sisters-in-law) the wife of your brother, or the sister of someone's husband or wife son noun a male child of a particular parent or parents stepbrother noun son that your father’s new wife or your mother's new husband already has when they marry your parent stepsister noun a daughter that your father's new wife or your mother’s new husband already has when they marry your parent wedding noun a marriage ceremony and all the celebrations associated with it the woman that a man has married Scanned by CamScannerpe exercise | Choose the correct answer for each blank and write its number (1, 2, 3 or 4) in the brackets provided. 4 2. Mrs Jones remarried after her first _______ died. (1) husband (2) son (3) father (4) uncle () Uncle Ben and Uncle Nick are my mother's (1) brother-in-laws (2) brothers-in-law (3) nephews (4) sons () An only child has no i (1) friends (2) parents (3) cousins (4) siblings ( ) Your brother's wife is your _._-__. (1) sister-in-law (2) brother-in-law (3) aunt (4) half-sister ( ) Anna and David got ____ last month; their wedding will take place next year. (1) married (2) divorced (3) engaged (4) related () My cousin Kate is my mother's (1) nephew (2) niece (3) sister (4) sister-in-law ( ) Sally and her brother Jack are the same height, but Sally ——— (1) elder (2) oldest (3) eldest (4) older ( ) John is his mother's father’s ______. (1) son (2) nephew (3) grandson (4) son-in-law {( ) 85 Scanned by CamScanner10. My sister invited her ______for dinner a few weeks after she was married. (1) husband (2) in-laws (3) children (4) descendants ( ) The man Joe’s mother is going to marry already has two daughters: they will be his (1) stepsisters (2) half-sisters (3) siblings (4) sisters-in-law () ey Choose the most suitable answer to replace the underlined word(s) and write its number in the brackets provided. 1. 86 They brought up a family of eight in this tiny house. (1) lifted (2) raised (3) took up (4) grew () Joe's dad cooked us some lunch. (1) mother (2) brother (3) father (4) grandfather () Their oldest daughter lives in Australia, (1) eldest (2) elder (3) biggest (4) greatest () It rained on the day of their wedding. (1) marrying (2) engagement (3) divorce (4) marriage ( ) Anna is Peter's child. (1) son (2) nephew (3) daughter (4) niece ( ) Scanned by CamScannerChoose the correct answer for each blank and write its number in the space. Sally and Sue were discussing their favourite soap opera, Rainbow Street. ‘Do you think Jim Brown will ask Jane Green to marty him?’ asked Sally. ‘I doubt it,’ replied Sue, ‘especially if he finds out that he is actually her (1) _____ (4. cousin 2. uncle 3. nephew 4. brother).’ ‘How do you work that out?’ ‘Well, do you remember that episode where Jim discovered that Mr and Mrs Brown had (2) __ (1. raised 2. adopted 3. looked after 4. received) him when he was a baby?’ Yes.” ‘Then he started making enquiries about his real parents, and found out that his father was Bill White, the owner of the corner shop.’ ‘But Bill cannot be Jane's brother,’ said Sally. ‘They have a different surname, not to mention the fact that he is twenty years older than her.’ ‘He is only her (3) _______ (1. stepbrother 2. half-brother 3. brother- in-law 4, part-brother),’ said Sue. ‘His parents got (4) (1. divorced 2. engaged 3. married 4. separated) when he was ten and his mother married Bob Green: Jane is their daughter.’ ‘How do you know. all this?’ ‘My (5)______(1. dad 2. little sister 3. niece 4. mum) told me: she has been watching the show since before we were born!’ 87 Scanned by CamScannerFill each blank with the word(s) you think best. Do not use the same word(s) more than once. Among some old papers of my grandfather's, | found a drawing of our(1)________, going back to the year 1814. With it was a handwritten document giving interesting information about some of my (2) For example, my grandfather's own grandfather, born in 1885, was a tailor who made clothes for the Emperor of China. He had eleven (3) ____________ (four brothers and seven sisters), three of whom died before they were five years old. The family tree is not up-to-date, because my grandfather did not include all his own (4) —__—. He must have drawn it when my mother was a child, because her name is there, between that of her elder brother and younger sister. But the names of the people they (5) ____________ are not shown. | decided to make a new copy, on a bigger sheet of paper, and add the missing information, including my own name and those of my cousins. Scanned by CamScanner