Unit 5

The following exercises will offer you new vocabulary to describe your family and people. You will find exercises with new vocabulary and synoyms to the vocabulary you already know to enrich your English language. You will also find some games to practise the vocabulary in a more exciting way.

Unit 5: Family

• Basic

FAMILY EXERCISE

• Intermediate

FAMILY RELATIONS EXERCISE

MY FAMILY TREE

Create a family tree on paper or using the site below. How far can you go? How well do you know your family? Try to recreate as much of your family as you can. Include your relationship with the family member. Try to use some of the extra vocabulary in the list of unit 5.

Example: your mother's sister is your aunt, so you write 'aunt' next to her name.

Click on the image below if you would like to make your family tree on your computer.

• Advanced

NUMBER RELATIONS (in pairs)

1. Find a partner. 
2. Choose one person to guess the family member, the other person has to talk about the family member.
3. The person who explains has to use a number. Examples: My family member has 2 sisters. My family member is 36 years old.
4. After every sentence the other person is allowed to take a guess. (You can use the family tree from the previous exercise to help if it takes too long)
5. If the family member has been guessed you switch roles. Keep track of the amount of sentences you needed. The person who needs the fewest amount of sentences wins.

Unit 5: Appearance

• Basic

Before you do any other exercise on this page, test yourself with the following exercise. If this exercise goes well, continue with the other exercises.

• Advanced

GUESS WHO (in pairs)

One person takes out their phone and goes to the app store and downloads the app 'Guess Who am I - Board games' door Antonio Jimenez Barrios. Open the game and go to settings. Here you change the language to English. You start a new game for 2 players and play guess who in English. Here is how it works:

1. Person A chooses a character that person B needs to guess. Then person B does the same.
2. Person A asks a yes/no question: 'Does your character have a big nose?' If person B says 'yes', person A removes all the characters with a small nose on the board. After that you change roles.
3. Continue asking questions until you can guess who the other person has picked. The first person to guess correctly wins.