Can you talk about your family in English? In this beginner-friendly lesson, you can learn useful vocabulary and simple sentences to talk about your family and answer common questions.
Practice: ✅ Parents, brothers and sisters ✅ Aunts, uncles, and cousins ✅ "Look like" and "look alike" ✅ Talking about family activities ✅ Answering everyday English questions
This lesson includes listening, speaking, reading, and pronunciation practice to help you build confidence in real conversations.
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Jennifer leads an English lesson focused on discussing family members. The session covers vocabulary for relatives, the grammatical difference between \"like\" and \"alike\" when describing appearances, and how to use verbs such as \"spend\" and \"like\" to describe family activities and shared time.
People often like to talk about their families.
Well, not all people, but many people.
Hi. I'm Jennifer.
Let's practice talking about our families.
In this lesson, you can practice
listening, speaking, and reading in English.
Ready?
This is Tricia and Tina.
They are sisters.
They like to do everything together.
They are very close.
Do you have brothers or sisters?
How many?
Are you close?
Now you can ask me.
I have three brothers.
We don't live in the same city or the same state.
I don't see my brothers often,
but we sometimes talk by phone.
These are two brothers.
Jordan is 13.
Jeff is 18.
They have blue eyes and blonde hair,
but they don't really look alike.
They look different.
Jordan looks like his mother.
Jeff looks like his father.
How do we use LIKE and ALIKE?
We can say,
They look alike.
This means they look the same or similar.
Maybe they don't look alike.
We can say someone looks like who?
He looks like his father.
She doesn't look like her mother.
Who do you look like?
Do you look like your mother,
your father,
or a brother or sister?
Now you can ask me.
My brothers and I have dark hair and brown eyes.
I think I look like my oldest brother a little.
I know I look a lot like my mother.
Two of my brothers look like our father.
Today is Jocelyn's birthday.
She is with her family.
Her parents,
her brothers,
her uncle,
and her cousin.
Let's review.
A parent is a mother or father.
Maybe you have one parent or two parents.
The brother of your mother or father is your uncle.
The sister of your mother or father is your aunt.
The children of your aunt and uncle are your cousins.
Do you have a big family?
Do you have aunts, uncles, and cousins?
Now you can ask me.
Well, I have four brothers.
I have aunts and uncles.
I have many cousins in the United States and in the Philippines.
I don't know all my cousins.
This is the Robinson family.
They have two daughters and a son.
They spend time together on the weekend.
They like going to the beach.
They like to swim, play soccer, and have a picnic.
How can we use the verbs like and spend?
We can say,
Like what?
They like the beach.
Like doing what?
They like going to the beach.
Like to do what?
They like to swim.
Spend time.
They spend time together.
Spend time where?
They spend time at the beach.
Do you spend time with your family?
What do you like to do together?
Now you can ask me.
I like spending some time with my son and daughter.
We like to take our dog for a walk.
My son and I like going to the movies.
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