Lesson 1 the family

1.3.Ask a friend these questions. Then write sentences about your friend and their family. For example,Marta has one brother but no sisters.
1. Have you got any brothers and sisters?
2. Have you got any cousins?
3. Have you got any nieces or nephews?
4. Have you got any grandparents?
5.Do you come from a big family?


1.4.Cover the opposite page. How many family words can you write down in two minutes? Check what you wrote carefully with the book. Did you spell everything correctly? Which words did you forget?


Homework.
Draw your family tree. Then write sentences. Write about your relations. Marta is my mother.
Use a dictionary to help you.

Lesson 2 BIRTH, MARRIAGE AND DEATH
2.1. Grammar: This/these, that/those
2.2. Speaking: Gifts
2.3. Listening: The wedding
2.4. Source: Michel McCarthy, Felicity O’Dell English vocabulary in use. 10p. Elementary third edition.

1. 
   Birth
   

Anna had a baby yesterday.
He was born at 1.15 yesterday morning.
He weighed 3 kilograms.

They are going to call him John – after John, his grandfather. His grandfather’s birthday is June 16th too – but he was born in 1957!
The baby’s parents were born in 1986.

2. 
   Marriage
   

If you do not have a partner,you are single.

If you have a husband or wife,you are married.
If your husband or wife dies,you are widowed.
If your marriage breaks up,you are separated/divorced.
[the marriage has legally ended]

Harry and Sarah got married.

They (got) married in 2001.
(married without got is more formal)
They went on their honeymoon to Italy.
They were married for 15 years.



Common mistakes
Sarah got married to Harry [NOT with Harry].

3. 
   Death
   

Then Harry became ill.

He died last year.
He died of a heart attack.

Common mistakes

Harry is dead [NOT Harry is died or Harry is death].

Exercises

2.1. Think of people you know. Where were they born? When?
1. ……..My mother was born in Scotland on July 4th 1967………
2. ……………………………………………………………………

1. 
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2. 
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3. 
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2.2 Find a word on the opposite page which means…

1. the name for a woman on her wedding day. bride

2. the name for a man on his wedding day.
3. what you are if you haven’t got a partner.
4. to be 57 kilograms.
5. what you are if your marriage has legally ended.
6. a religious service for a dead person.
7. a holiday after a wedding.
8. what you are if your husband or wife dies.

2.3 Complete the sentences with words from the box.