Lesson 3

Big happy families

(Aim of the lesson is to learn vocabulary about families and speak about student’s family members)

  1. Warm-up. Think over the meaning of these 3 words: COUPLE, SIBLINGS, STRANGERS. What do they mean? Watch the video and guess

1. Strangers

2. Couple

3. Couple

4. Siblings

  1. Watch the presentation and learn the names of family members
  1. Complete the diagram with words from the box.

Father and mother
Husband and wife
Son and daughter
Brother and sister
Grandfather and grandmother
Uncle and aunt
Nephew and niece
Boyfriend and girlfriend
  1. A) Complete the sentences.

2. grandmother

3. aunt

4. uncle

5. nephew

6. niece

7. parents

8. children

9. cousins

B)Follow the link

5. Listen and write the names (track 1)

6. Now tell about your family

7. Read the text and answer True or False

My name is Brant. I`m 7 years old and this is my big family!!

I`ve got a mother, her name is Clara and she is 38 years old. I`ve got a father, his name is Alex and he is 40 years old.

I`ve got seven brothers. Their names are Chester, Buck, Loucas, Peter, Sam, Ted and Louis. Chester is two and Sam is three years old. Buck is four, Loucas is six and Peter is sixteen years old. My twin brothers are babies and their names are Ted and Louis.

I`ve got two sisters, Matilda and Gracie. Matilda is fourteen and Gracie is thirteen.I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!

  1. Brant is seven years old. ______
  2. He has got a small family. ______
  3. His mother is 38 years old. ______
  4. Brant has got 8 brothers. ______
  5. Buck is three years old. ______
  6. He hasn`t got twin brothers. ______

8. Watch the video and write down the questions from it. Then answer the questions about your family

9. Imagine you are Bart Simpson and this is your family. Describe it. Give their names, age, character

10. Play the audio game. Try to sound naturally. Find pairs!

Thank you for the lesson!

H/T

1. Do the online exercises.

2. Watch the videos and answer the questions:

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3. Draw your own family tree and learn to describe about all family members. Give details. (Students should draw it, take photo and send it to you. You may ask them about some of their relatives during the lesson)

4. Listen to the song and fill in the missing words. Sing the song along.

We are ______

I got all my ______with me

We are family

Get up everybody and ____

Everyone can see we're ______

As we walk on by

(FLY!) and we fly just like ____ of a feather

I won't tell no lie

(ALL!)all of the _____ around us they say

Can they be that close

Just let me state for the record

We're giving _____ in a family dose

[Chorus:Repeat x2]

Living ___ is fun and we've just begun

To get our share of the world's delights

(HIGH!)high hopes we have for our ______

And our ____is in sight

(WE!)no we don't get ______

Here's what we call our golden rule

Have faith in you and the ______you do

You won't go wrong

This is our family Jewel