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Family
English has a variety of words for different kinds
of family
members. You’ll need to hear
and recognize a whole bunch of different English family words in IELTS Listening.
Immediate family
spouse
a husband or wife
sibling
a brother
or sister
sibling rivalry
a feeling of competition between siblings (This is a possible topic not just in
Listening, but also in the IELTS Speaking Interview, and possibly in IELTS
Writing Task 2.)
Extended family
aunt
the sister
of your father or mother
uncle
the brother of your father or mother
cousin
the son or daughter
of your aunt or uncle
niece
the daughter of your
brother or sister
nephew
the son of your brother or sister
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in-laws
“In-law” is used to describe the relatives of your husband or wife — that is, the
relatives of your spouse. Your spouse’s brother is your brother-in-law, your
spouse’s
sister is your sister-in-law, your spouse’s mother is your mother-in-law,
your spouse’s father
is your father-in-law, and so on.
Less common family words
The family terms below are unlikely to come up in IELTS Listening tracks. Still, there is
at least some chance you’ll hear this vocabulary on the exam. Study this short list of
not-so-
common English family words, and you’ll be ready for them if they come up on
the test.
step
Just as “in-laws” are your
relatives by current marriage, your “step” relatives are
relatives from previous marriages. For example, if a man marries a woman who
already has
children, he becomes their step father, and they become his step
children. And if both a husband and wife have children from their previous
marriages, those children become each others’ step siblings.
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