6.2.Does she give the answers to these questions in the text? Write y or n in the boxes.

1. who’s the head of the family? □

2. How many people live in Kathy’s home? □

3. How many brothers has she got? □

4. How often does she see her brothers? □

5. Is Kathy’s family Greek or Australian? □

6.3.Look at the words in the vocabulary box. Put the words in pairs. Two words have no pairs. Which ones are they?

aunt boy boyfriend brother child cousin daughter father girl girlfriend grandfather grandmother husband man mother nephew niece parent sister son uncle wife woman

aunt – uncle

6.4.Write six sentences about your family or a family that you know well.

1. _________________________________

2. _________________________________

3. _________________________________

4. _________________________________

5. _________________________________

6. _________________________________

6.5.Rewrite these sentences in another way. Use the words in brackets.

1. I am his son. (father)

___He is my father.______________________

2. You are our sisters. (brothers)

______________________________________

3. She is my cousin. (cousin)

______________________________________

4. We are their boyfriends. (girlfriends)

______________________________________

5. He is her husband. (wife)

______________________________________

6. They are your uncles. (nephews)

______________________________________

6.6. Is the first word in these phrases singular (S) or plural (P)?

1. church’s seats □

2. cities names □

3. girls’ sister □

4. host’s flowers □

5. men’s jobs □

6. people’s homes □

7. Philippa’s address □

8. woman’s husband □

6.7. Underline the correct word.

1. I’ve got a brother and a sister. My nieces are my sister’s/sisters’ children.

2. Joanna is my brother’s/brothers’ wife.

3. What are your cousin’s/cousins’ names?

4. This is a photo of my friend’s/friends’ house. They live in the country.

5. Philip and Ray are my sister’s/sisters’ husbands.

6. Is this your nephew’s/nephews’ girlfriend?

Text 5

People from different places

A French family

6.8. How close are you as a family? We talked to Corinne Mathieu, from Montpellier, France about her family life.

1. ‘We usually see each other at least once a month, maybe more often. We have lunch together on Sunday if we haven’t got anything special to do. We live in Montpellier, which is about an hour and a half away, but we always come to Marseilles where my mother and father live. It’s not so far. Usually my grandmother and my uncle and aunt are there too – we re quite a large family! Sometimes my brother and his girlfriend come over – they live nearby. The meal takes about four hours, we spend a lot of time chatting and there’s always lots to eat.

2. ‘There’s no one we call the head of the family, although my father’s advice and opinion are very important in any decisions we take. My uncle Tony is in fact older than my father, so I suppose he’s the real head of the family. When my grandfather was alive he liked to think that the whole family organized itself around him, but these days it’s different but we all try to discuss things together when we meet.

3. ‘In most families, it’s a small family group who live in the same house, mother, father and the children before they get married. But if one of the grandparents dies, the other usually sells their home and goes to live with their children. So it’s quite common to have one grandparent living with you, but not more.

4. ‘In France most children leave home when they get married, and not before. I lived in Marseilles with my mother and father until I got married. But there are some people who want to lead independent lives and they find a flat as soon as they start their first job, even before they get married. Of course, the main problem is flats are so expensive to rent here, and we simply have to live with our parents.’