Straightforward

CONTENTS

 

Vocabulary & speaking:

 

family & friends

 

1 Match the words in the box to the definitions.

 

aunt colleague cousin daughter ; grandfather mother-in-law pet neighbour nephew niece son son-in-law uncle best friend

 

1 neighbour

 

1 a person who lives very near you

 

2 a person you work with

 

3 an animal that lives with the family

 

4 your male child

 

5 your aunt’s (or your uncle’s) child

 

6 your brother’s (or your sister’s) daughter

 

7 your closest friend

 

8 your daughter’s husband

 

9 your mother’s (or your father’s) sister

 

”2 Work in pairs. Write definitions for the other words in the box.

 

3 Write the names of four people who are important to you.

 

Work in pairs. Tell your partner as much as possible about these people.

Ю Lesikar is a Masai and lives in a village near Arusha in the north of the country, There is no electricity in the home and they'walk almost a kilometre to get water. Gemma cooks simple dinners of corn and vegetables and she washes the clothes in a bucket. There is a small primary school in the village, but Gemma and 15 Lesikar will also teach Lucia at home.

 

Judy Boehmer

 

Judy had her first child, Adam, 27 years ago, She now has four sons and seven daughters and a pet dog, Bosco, but she wants more boys, Judy and her husband, Larry, live in Atlanta, 20 Georgia, but they also have a 10-metre-long motor home. The family sometimes travels more than 40,000 kilometres a year for their work. The children do not go to school, but they study at home with their parents.

 

The Boehmers are a circus family and all the children take part 25 in the show. They do different kinds of juggling and Margaret, the youngest, stands on one leg in her mother’s hand. The first show of the Boehmer Family Jugglers was at a theme park in ' Iowa in 1989, and they now perform all over America.