families 1
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Chat with your partner. What is a family? Are all families the same? How are
they different?
A Nuclear Family is a family unit which has two parents and their children. The children can be adopted or biological children. Brothers and sisters are called siblings.
But what does adopted or biological mean?
A Nuclear Family is a family unit which has two parents and their children. The children can be adopted or biological children. Brothers and sisters are called siblings.
What do you think? Talk to your partner!
Children are adopted when their real (biological) parents cannot take care of them.
Other people adopt the child and become their parents.
But what does sibling mean?
A Nuclear Family is a family unit which has two parents and their children. The children can be adopted or biological children. Brothers and sisters are called siblings.
What do you think? Talk to your partner!
An extended family is a Nuclear Family plus other relatives. Usually grandparents live with the nuclear family to make an extended family but sometimes it can be aunts, uncles or cousins.
Does anyone live in an extended family?
A one parent family is a family where the children are looked after by either their mother or father. There parents live in different places.
A Step Family is created when a single parent marries again. Your parent’s spouse may be childless or their children may live somewhere else. A step family can also be when two One Parent Families live together.
What does spouse mean?
A Step Family is created when a single parent marries again. Your parent’s spouse may be childless or their children may live somewhere else. A step family can also be when two One Parent Families live together.
Take the paper that Mr. Eric gives you and walk around the room.
Match the letter (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H) of the vocabulary item to definition on your paper.
When you are finished, please sit back down.
Parents + Children
Parents + Children+(Grandparents or
Aunts or Uncles or Cousins)
Mother or Father + Children
One Parent Family +Spouse + Children
When parents can’t take care of a child and new parents take care of the
child.
Your brother or sister
A husband or wife
ANY PERSON WHO IS IN
YOUR FAMILY.
F) Nuclear Family
H) Extended Family
F) One Parent Family
C) Step Family
D) Adopted E) Sibling G) Spouse B) Relative