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FAMILY MEMBERS 1

Learn and practice talking about members of your family in English:

Choose the best response to complete each sentence.

1. A girl/woman who has the same mother and father as I do is my ✓

2. A boy/man who has the same mother and father as I do is my .✓

3. My father's brother is my ✓

4. My father's sister is my .✓

5. The son of my father's brother is my .✓

6. My mother's mother is my ✓

7. My father's father is my ✓

8. The man who I am married to is my .✓

9. The woman who I am married to is my .✓

10. My male child is my .✓

11. My female child is my .✓

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DID YOU KNOW?

Here are some fun and interesting facts about family member names in English-great for language learning or just curiosity:

• Family comes from the Latin familia, which originally meant "household servants," not relatives!
• Relative comes from a word meaning "to carry back," implying how families are connected.
• Grandmother / Grandfather are often shortened to Grandma / Grandpa, but English has many nicknames: Nana, Nanny, Gran, Pop, Papa, Gramps.
• Grandparent is gender-neutral and relatively modern in common use.
• Mother and Father are among the oldest words in English, dating back thousands of years.
• Mom (British/Australian English: Mum) and Dad are examples of baby-talk words (easy sounds babies can say early).
• Parents-in-law: the "in-law" part means related by law (marriage), not biology.
• Child has an irregular plural: children (not childs).
• Son and daughter come from Old English; daughter has many silent letters because pronunciation changed over time.
• Kid originally meant a young goat before it meant a child.
• Sibling is gender-neutral and was popularized by psychologists in the 20th century.
• Brother and sister are among the most stable English words-very similar across Germanic languages.
• Twin comes from a word meaning "two."
• Uncle and aunt come from French and Latin roots.
• Cousin is used for many relationships in English-unlike some languages that have different words.
• Nephew / niece come from Latin words meaning "grandchild."
• English often reuses words informally: bro, sis, fam.
• Chosen family is a modern term for close friends treated like relatives.

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