Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

Exercise 3 — New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

1.2 - Family ties — New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book by Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

Look at the underlined phrases in audioscript 1.3 on page 162. What do you think they mean?