8 Work in pairs. Look at the photo above and say who you think the people are.
9 Look at the pictures and write sentences about the families.
Family A: Family B: .
10 Look at the passage. Two texts are mixed up. The texts are descriptions of the two families in the pictures. Read the passage and underline the description of family a.
Jenny is thirty-two years old and has got a job in a post office in a small village. Peter is thirty-nine years old and he is an architect in London. He is married to Elizabeth and they’ve got four children: three sons and a daughter. She’s divorced and has got an eight-year-old daughter, Cilla, and a three-year-old son, Jamie. She’s got a small house with a garden in the village. They live in a big house near London. She’s got a lot of friends in the village. Elizabeth looks after the children and has a part-time job in a school near her home. Jenny’s mother, Kate, lives in the same village. Peter’s parents, Fiona and Michael, live in the country and come to stay with the family in the holidays. They have a comfortable life and they are a happy family. She helps Jenny with the children when she’s at work.
11 Decide if the sentences are TRUE or FALSE. Correct those sentences which are false.
Jenny’s husband is Peter. _________________________________
Elizabeth is an architect. _________________________________
Peter has got two children. __________________________________
Jenny has got a part-time job in a school. _____________________________
Jenny has got a house near London. ________________________________
12 Write about people’s relationships using the possessive case.
Example:
Kate is Jenny’s mother.
Elizabeth _____________________________________________________
Fiona and Michael ______________________________________________
Cilla _________________________________________________________
Jamie ________________________________________________________
LISTENING
13 Read and listen the first part of this conversation.
Janie: Hi, Holly, how are you?
Holly: Fine, thanks, how are you?
Janie I’m OK. Who’s this?
Holly: This is Greg.
Janie: And how old is he?
Holly: He’s twenty-three.
14 Put the sentences a-e in the second part of the conversation. Listen and check.
Janie: What’s his job?
Holly: (1) ________
Janie: An actor! What’s his surname?
Holly: (2) _________
Janie: Is he from Hollywood?
Holly: (3) _________
Janie: He’s very good-looking. What’s his phone number?
Holly: (4) _________
Janie: Is he your boyfriend?
Holly: (5) ________
a He’s an actor.
b That’s a secret!
c Sheppard.
d No, he isn’t. He’s from New York.
e Yes, he is.
15 Work in pairs. Act out the conversation.
16 Look at the family tree. Write sentences describing relationships.
Example:
Helen is John’s grandmother.
17 Look at the family tree in activity 16. Listen to two people talking about their family. Who are the speakers?
Speaker 1: ______________
Speaker 2: ______________
18 Listen again. Complete the information about members of the family.
1 Sally has got an interesting job, she’s a __________.
2 Philippa is _____________ years old.
3 Greg is not British, he’s ________________.
4 Greg has got a job with a _________________ company.
5 Henry is not _________________.
VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR