Family members. Revision

 Family members. Revision

Tomorrow is the Parents` Day at our Explorers` Club. Our parents, maybe grandparents or other relatives will share their traveller`s experiences with us. Наши родители, возможно, бабушки и дедушки, или же другие родственники поделятся с нами своим опытом путешественника. That`s why I was asked to revise the words which are connected with a family. Именно поэтому меня и попросили повторить с вами слова, связанные с семьей.

Find the following folder, please: Family members…

Look: I`ve planted the family tree. Посмотрите, я посадил семейное дерево. It`s big enough to hold all my family. Оно достаточно большое, чтобы поместить все мою семью. 

First of all, let`s revise how we pronounce some words we need to describe our families. Repeat them please after me: mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandfather, grandmother, parents, grandparents, siblings, nephew, niece, son, daughter, children, grandchildren. 

You`ve just seen how this tree grew up. Now, let`s see how my family was becoming bigger and bigger.

Let`s start with the oldest family members: my grandparents. Look! This is my granny Anne and my granddad Vitya. My dad`s parents are Sveta and Sergey.

My dad`s parents have only one son – Valera. He`s my dad. And my mum`s parents have got three children: two daughters and a son. А у родителей моей мамы – трое детей: две дочери и сын.

My mothers` name is Olga. She`s the best mum ever!

My mum`s sister is my aunt. She is very friendly and energetic. Сестра моей мамы – моя тетя, очень дружелюбная и энергичная. My mum`s brother, my uncle Borya, is the youngest among my mum`s siblings. Мой дядя Боря – самый младший из всех маминых братьев и сестер. Borya has already got two children. They are my cousins. У дяди Бори уже двое детей. Они мои двоюродные братья и сестры.

My elder brother is 10 years older than me. He has a family of his own. У него есть своя собственная семья. He`s got a son and a daughter. У него есть сын и дочь. My niece, Kate, is 4 years old. Моей племяннице, (niece) Кате, 4 года. And my nephew, Egor, is 5. А моему племяннику (nephew) Егору – 5 лет.

And finally, my sister and me. We are twins. Мы – близнецы.

I`m happy to have so many relatives.

Let`s do some tasks to remember how we call family members.

Translate the following words into English:

·       Двоюродные братья/сестры. Do you remember how we name them in English? … Cousins. Don`t forget that we use this word for both: for boys and girls. И не забудьте, что мы это слово используем и для двоюродных братьев и для двоюродных сестер.

·       And the next word: племянница. How do we name her in English?... Niece. Our brother`s or sister`s daughter is our ‘niece’. Дочь нашего брата или сестры – это наша племянница.

·       And what about племянник? Do you remember the English variant of this word?... Nephew. Our niece`s brother is our nephew. Брат нашей племянницы – это племянник.

Oh look:  we are given one more task. What relatives are called parents?

… Right you are: our dad and mum are our parents. Наши папа и мама – наши родители.

Look the next word: … grandparents. Name your family members that are called grandparents… So, if parents are our mum and dad, so ‘grandparents’ are our mum and dad`s parents. Итак, еслиc слово parents, это наши мама и папа, то grandparents – это родители наших родителей, то есть наши бабушки и дедушки.

Siblings. Who are siblings?... Siblings are our brothers and sisters. Слово siblings c английского языка переводится – братья и сестры, то есть дети одних родителей. Now, name all the siblings in my family, …(Russian)

My brother, sister and me – are siblings. My mother, my aunt and uncle – are siblings too. Look, my cousins are siblings because they`ve got the same parents. And don`t forget that my nephew and my niece are siblings, too.

Brrrr… What a strong wind!...  It means that the following task you do without a hint. А это значит, что следующее задание вы выполняете без подсказки.

Complete the following sentences.

Aunt`s or uncle`s children are … . Дети тети (или дяди). How can we name them? … Cousins. Our aunt`s or uncle`s children are our cousins. Дети наших дяди или тети – это наши двоюродные братья и сестры - our ‘cousins’.

…Our grandparents call us… А как же наши дедушки и бабушки нас называют? If we`re our parents` children, so our grandparents call us grandchildren. We are their grandchildren. Мы их внуки.

Wonderful! We`ve done everything! Have a nice ‘Parents` day!’…