How to Talk About Your Relatives:

 

👩‍❤️‍👨Speaking About Family in English: How to Talk About Your Relatives:

✏️Now let’s look at some ways to describe the family. If you change a few words in each sentence, you can use them as a basis to talk about your own family and relatives.

      1.   I come from a small/big family./ I come of a respectable muslim family.

     2.  There are (number) people in my family.

      

3.  My brother/sister (name) lives in (place). He/She is an (occupation).

 4.   I look like my Dad. We both have blue eyes and fair hair.

    5.  I’m very different from my Mum. She is talkative and doesn’t like to wait for anything. But I’m very shy and patient.

  6.    My sister likes staying at home and cooking, but I prefer gardening and outdoor activities.

  7.    My brother enjoys playing sports, but I prefer reading and watching movies.

   8.   We always have lunch/dinner together at the weekend. Sometimes we go away for the weekend.

9. We don’t see each other very often, but I try to call my parents once a week/day.

     10.    I live near my sister/cousin, so we meet for coffee every week.

    11.    My brother lives far away, but I go to visit him and his family sometimes/every summer.

💥There really is no limit to the number of sentences you can make. You can talk about their personalities, appearance, or the things they like to do.

🙎🙍🤷🙅🙅🙆For conversation about family the following words need to know!

Adult: A person who has finished growing and is no longer a child. (noun)

Adopt: To legally take someone else’s child to become your own child. (verb)

Aunt: The sister of your father or your  mother, or the wife of your uncle. (noun)

Baby: A very young child who is not yet able to speak or walk. (noun)

Bachelor: A man who has never been married. (noun)

Bachelorette: A woman who has never been married. (noun)

Boy: A male child or a young male person. (noun)

Brother: A boy or man who has the same parents as you. (noun)

Born: To come out of your mother’s body and to start to exist. (verb)

Birth: The time when a baby comes out of its mother’s body. (noun)

Birthday: The day each year which is the same date as the one on which you were born. (noun)

Bride: A woman on her wedding day. (noun)

Bridegroom: A man on his wedding day. (noun)

Bring up: To look after a child and teach him or her how to behave, etc. (verb)

Child (plural: children): A young person who is below the age of puberty or below the legal age of maturity. (noun)

Couple: Two people who are married or having a romantic relationship. (noun)

Cousin: The child of your uncle or aunt. (noun)

Daddy: A child’s word for a father (also dad). (noun)

Daughter: Someone’s female child. (noun)

Daughter-in-law: The wife of your son/child. (noun)

Delivery: The process of giving birth. (noun)

Descendant: Someone who is related by blood to a person who lived a long time ago. (noun)

Divorce: To legally end a marriage. (verb)

Divorced: To be no longer married to your wife or husband. (adjective)

Elder: To be born first. (adjective)

Engagement: An agreement between two people to marry in the near future. (noun)

Engaged: Having agreed to marry somebody. (adjective)

Family: A group of people who are related by blood or marriage. (noun)

Family tree: A drawing that shows the names of all family members over generations and how they are related to each other. (noun)

Father: A male parent. (noun)

Father-in-law: The father of your husband or wife. (noun)

Female: Relating to women or girls. (adjective)

Fiancé: The man to whom a woman is engaged. (noun)

Fiancée: The woman to whom a man is engaged. (noun)

Foster:  To take care of someone else’s child for a period of time but without becoming the legal guardian of the child. (verb)

Girl: A female child or a young female person. (noun)

Give birth: To produce a baby from your body. (verb)

Godchild: A child who has godparents. (noun)

Goddaughter: A female godchild. (noun)

Godfather: A man who is responsible to teach a child Christian moral and religious values. (noun)

Godmother: A woman who is responsible to teach a child Christian moral and religious values. (noun)

Godparents: People who are responsible to teach a child Christian moral and religious values. (noun)

Godson: A male godchild. (noun)

Grandchild: The child of your son or daughter. (noun)

Granddaughter: A female grandchild. (noun)

Grandfather: The father of your mother or father (same as grandpa). (noun)

Grandpa: The father of your mother or father (same as grandfather). (noun)

Grandmother: The mother of your mother or father (same as grandma). (noun)

Grandma: The mother of your mother or father (same as grandmother). (noun)

Grandson: A male grandchild. (noun)

Great-grandparent: The mother or father of your grandparent. (noun)

Half-brother: A brother who is the son of either your mother or your father. (noun)

Husband: The man that a woman is married to. (noun)

Labor: The process of childbirth from the start of contractions to delivery. (noun)

Late: No longer alive, to be dead. (adjective)

Male: Relating to men or boys. (adjective)

Man: An adult male person. (noun)

Marry: To become somebody’s husband, wife or life partner. (verb)

Marriage: The legal relationship between two people who are married. (noun)

Married: Having a husband, wife or life partner. (adjective)

Mother: A female parent. (noun)

Mother-in-law: The mother of your husband or wife. (noun)

Mummy: A child’s word for a mother (also mum) (noun)

Nephew: The son of your brother or sister, your husband’s brother or sister, and your wife’s brother or sister. (noun)

Niece: The daughter of your brother or sister, your husband’s brother or sister, and your wife’s brother or sister. (noun)

Old: Having lived for a very long time. (adjective)

Parent: The father or mother of a person. (noun)

Parents-in-law: The parents of your husband or wife. (noun)

Relative: A person connected to you by blood or marriage. (noun)

Raise: To care for and educate a child until adulthood. (verb)

Sister: A girl or woman who has the same parents as you. (noun)

Sibling: A brother or sister of the same parents. (noun)

Son: Someone’s male child. (noun)

Son-in-law: The husband of your daughter/child. (noun)

Spouse: Your husband or wife. (noun)

Stepbrother: The son of your stepparent or the person who is married to your parent. (noun)

Stepfather: The man who is married to your mother but is not your father. (noun)

Stepmother: The woman who is married to your father but is not your mother. (noun)

Stepsister: The daughter of your stepparent or the person who is married to your parent. (noun)

Twin: One of two children who are born to the same mother at the same time. (noun)

Uncle: The brother of your mother or father, or the husband of your aunt. (noun)

Wed: To marry. (verb)

Wedding: A marriage ceremony. (noun)

Widow: A woman whose husband has died and who has not married again. (noun)

Widower: A man whose wife has died and who has not married again. (noun)

Wife: The woman that a man is married to. (noun)

Woman: An adult female person. (noun)

Young: Having lived for only a short time; not fully developed. (adjective)

Prepared by Noor E Alam