Cover of the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 11

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1b - Vocabulary for the textbook On Screen B1+ - Student's Book with authors Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley from Express Publishing

Question

  1. Form pairs.
  2. What do your family members look like? What are they like? Tell the class.
  3. What is a nuclear family? an extended family? a single-parent family?

Answer

  1. mum - dad; sister - brother; grandma - grandpa; mother-in-law - father-in-law; aunt - uncle; daughter - son; niece - nephew
  2. My mum's short and plump with short brown curly hair. She is quiet, honest, shy and polite. My dad's tall and slim with dark hair and green eyes. He's very hardworking, self-confident and generous.
  3. A nuclear family is a family with a mum, a dad and children. An extended family includes the grandparents and other relatives. A single-parent family is a family with only a mum or a dad (not both) and a child (children).